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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 03 > To fill priestly ranks, parishes look overseas

To fill priestly ranks, parishes look overseas

By Laurie Goodstein / The Bulletin
January 3, 2009

OWENSBORO, Ky. — Sixteen of the Rev. Darrell Venters’ fellow priests are running themselves ragged here, each serving three parishes simultaneously. One priest admits he stood at an altar once and forgot exactly which church he was in.

So Venters, lean and leathery as the....

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