Posted on 04/25/2017 8:11:31 PM PDT by vladimir998
Bishop Gianfranco Todisco asked to be sent 'to the farthest, most disadvantaged' diocese
Pope Francis accepted the early retirement request of Italian Bishop Gianfranco Todisco, who begged to be allowed to return to missionary work or to be sent “to the farthest, most disadvantaged” diocese.
The Vatican announced Bishop Todisco’s resignation on April 21 as Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa in southern Italy. The bishop is 71, and the normal retirement age is 75.
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Wow. A much better man than me.
He shall be rewarded, even though one like him is not looking for it.
He sounds like Fr. Junipero Serra.
They sending him to Detroit?
I bet you he had it with Vatican politics and just wanted to be a priest.
Little Somali er I mean Minneapolis .
Like Burgess Meredith, followed by De Niro in ‘True Confessions’, a very enjoyable and underrated movie with a very talented cast.
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