VATICAN INSIDER: FR. BILL PETRIE, 25 YEARS WITH ST. TERESA OF CALCUTTA
This week on Vatican Insider, the interview segment is a repeat but it features a compelling storyteller and fascinating guest, Fr. Bill Petrie. At the time of our conversation, Fr. Bill, a priest of the Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (SSCC), was pastor of St. Damien parish on the Hawaiian island of Molokai’i. We’ve been friends for a number of years and usually met at Kalaupapa on Molokai’i to talk about Sts. Damien, SSCC, and Marianne Cope and their work there with victims of leprosy. This is Part II of our conversation. Part I aired last weekend.
From Fr. Bill’s FB page for St. Damien parish –
A Generations photo: Fr. Bill on Kalaupapa at grave site of St. Damien and also layman Joseph Dutton whose cause for canonization is underway in the diocese of Honolulu.
For this interview, we met at the home of some mutual friends in Honolulu on the island of Oahu to talk about his 25 years of work with St. Mother Teresa! 25 years! Tons of insight and remarkable stories about this holy woman, whose feast day we celebrated recently. I cannot find my photo of our Honolulu encounter but there was a rainbow over Fr. Bill’s head as we finished our talk!Fr. Bill now lives on Oahu.
I have been focussing on St. Teresa recently, as you know from my recent interview segment when my guests were the producer and stars of the film, “Mother Teresa and Me.” The film was released by Fathom Events in select U.S. theaters for one night only on Oct. 5.
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A PAPAL TELEGRAM AND A BOOK FOR SYNOD PARTICIPANTS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 – In a telegram, the Holy Father expressed his condolences to the families of the 21 victims who died in Mestre, near Venice when their bus went through a guardrail, crashing to the street below..
ALSO FRIDAY: Pope Francis attended both the morning and afternoon sessions of the synod. Participants were given a book written by the Holy Father titled “Holy, Not Worldly – God’s Grace Saves us from Interior Corruption.”
Available today in Rome bookstores for 5 euro, it was delivered in Italian (in paper format), and in Spanish and English (in digital format).
Joan's Rome 