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Generational change with new bishop of Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese

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The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau welcomed a new prelate on Monday, March 31. Bishop Vann Johnston Jr, who trained as an electrical engineer and subsequently in canon law, assumed a position once held by the young Bernard Law before he became Cardinal Archbishop of Boston. The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau in southern Missouri spans 66 parishes in 39 counties, and serves roughly 65,000 Catholics. Read more in the article from the News-Leader.

Posted by Catholic Democrats Staff on April 3, 2008 12:08 PM |

Saturday, July 4, 2009
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

Emily Hanson, Chair, Catholic Democrats of Missouri

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