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VATICAN INSIDER: A NATIVE AMERICAN DEACON ON HIS MINISTRY TO NATIVE AMERICANS

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VATICAN INSIDER: A NATIVE AMERICAN DEACON ON HIS MINISTRY TO NATIVE AMERICANS

I’ll be away for the next two weekends so there will be no news summary on “Vatican Insider” but my radio colleagues and I are preparing the “best of” for those dates.

I do, however, want to highlight the fact that my special guest in the interview segment this weekend will also be back next week! And that guest is Deacon Andrew – “Andy” – Orosco of the diocese of San Bernardino in California. He is a Native American who works in the Native American Ministry in the diocese.

You will be fascinated about his reports on Native Americans as he explains where they live in the United States, what life is like for those who live on a reservation, their education, how they live the faith and the specifics of his ministry in the diocese.

I start by explaining how I met Deacon Andy and his wife Roseanne in Rome, how I decided that his story had to be told and how our conversation was totally off-the-cuff!

You will love the final story he tells in Part II about attending the weekly papal general audience and the subject of Pope Francis’ attention as he spoke of apostolic zeal!

I learned a lot from Deacon Orosco and so will you!

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