CALIFORNIA/UTAH
Angelus
January 10, 2017 – By JD Long-Garcia
Auxiliary Bishop Oscar Solis was listening to his brother priests during a morning deanery meeting in San Pedro when his cell phone began to vibrate. He ignored it. It went off again. And then again, but he didn’t answer.
He had another meeting later that afternoon, so he couldn’t join the others for lunch. He checked his phone and noticed that it was the papal nuncio — Archbishop Christophe Pierre — who had been calling. Bishop Solis called him back.
“Am I in trouble? What did I do?” Bishop Solis quipped once the archbishop had picked up the phone.
“No, no, no,” Bishop Solis recalled Archbishop Pierre saying, then adding as a side note, “The papal nuncio has a great sense of humor, you know?”
“Bishop, are you by yourself?” the archbishop asked Bishop Solis.
“Yes, your excellency.”
“I would like to share some good news with you.”
“What is it?” Bishop Solis said.
“The Holy Father has appointed you to be the ordinary in Salt Lake City.”
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