Learning what it is to be `Father' in the Navy.(Thomas P. Hall, military chaplain)

National Catholic Reporter | September 15, 2000| | Copyright

A bout two miles onto the Autostrada in Italy, Lt. Cmdr. Thomas P. Hall noticed a fire truck and a hearse. He had just eaten dinner with a few other military chaplains and a couple of "visiting padres" on the Island of Sicily one night this summer. He'd wanted to drive up Mount Etna to reach his quarters, but a festival was blocking the traffic.

"I was ticked having to change routes." Seconds later he was reaching into his glove compartment for his oils, rehearsing in his head how to do the Sacrament of the Infirm in Italian. When the Sicilian police found out that ...

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