New Pastor At Our Lady Of Mercy Installed Today
At 47 years old, Fr. Bernard Healey is a generation younger than his predecessor, Msgr. Lolio, who died suddenly in June.
For a Catholic priest, starting over in a new parish is usually a challenge. You are replacing someone who has been a big part of parish life and you may bring changes that are seen, initially anyway, as unwelcome. For Fr. Bernard Healey, new pastor of Our Lady of Mercy, the challenge has been all the greater because of the untimely and sudden death of his predecessor, Msgr. John Lolio. He seems up to that challenge. At age 47, Healey is a generation younger than Lolio and in the five weeks he’s been in East Greenwich, he’s already established a website for the church and loosened the restriction that boy and girl altar servers must be segregated. But Healey makes clear his respect for Lolio, whom he said was a friend as well as a …
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Beverly Castelli
3:36 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Welcome to Father Healy. I heard you speak briefly, after 9 a.m. mass today...Your voice has a vibrant sound. You seem very happy to be in E.G. God Bless You..... more ›