Serving Christ and Connecting Catholics in Western North Carolina
This spring marked the one-year anniversary of the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope.
It has been exciting following our very own American-born pope through his first year – although Leo XIV has not allowed himself to be pigeonholed as an “American pope.” He is a missionary who belongs first to the Lord and, for His sake, to the entire world.
In my bedroom as a child, there hung an 8.5-by-11-inch framed picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I am not sure how it got there (I think it also hung in my father’s bedroom when he was a child), or where it is today, but it is a significant part of my early spiritual journey.