These reflections are a result of more than 40 years of ministry as a Roman Catholic priest. Most of these years I spent in the Diocese of Charlotte which covers Western North Carolina. Now I am retired, and live in Medellín, Colombia where I continue to serve as a priest in the Archdiocese of Medellín.

Plague

 

PLAGUE

I would like to bring this series to your attention.  It is from America: The Jesuit Review. The series is "Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church."  You can listen to the podcasts by visiting the link below.  As many of you know, I have been involved in AIDS ministry since my early days in Asheville, North Carolina.  I founded the Caring Hearts AIDS Ministry at Saint Joan of Arc Parish in 1994, one of the few parish-based ministries in the USA at that time.  I have never been so proud of a parish as I was of Saint Joan of Arc and its support of people living with HIV & AIDS.  Like some of the stories in Plague, we too were attacked by fellow Catholics and by people who were afraid.  I hope you will follow the podcasts . . . they document what we lived through in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

https://www.americamagazine.org/plague