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June 27 letter from Archbishop Shelton Fabre of the Archdiocese of Louisville, who has been appointed apostolic administrator for the Diocese of Knoxville. Video of June 28 Mass homily and closing remarks.

Carta del administrador apostólico Arzobispo Shelton Fabre

El obispo Richard F. Stika, el obispo con más años de servicio de la Diócesis Católica Romana de Knoxville, anunció que se retirará del cargo que ha ocupado desde 2009.

Bishop Richard F. Stika, the longest-serving bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, has announced he is retiring from the post he has held since 2009.

Sister Mary Lisa Renfer, RSM, DO, has been nominated for Catholic Extension’s Lumen Christi Award for her work extending the healing ministry of Jesus to the poor as medical director of the St. Mary’s Legacy Clinic.

The people behind the movie “Father Ryan: A Higher Call” took the film about the heroic Chattanooga priest and candidate for sainthood on the road with showings at Knoxville Catholic High School on May 6 and St. Mary Church in Johnson City on June 2.

Cormac McCarthy, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and Knoxville native who graduated from Knoxville Catholic High School in 1951, died June 13. He was 89. Although Mr. McCarthy was born in Rhode Island on July 20, 1933, he grew up in Knoxville as one of six children in an Irish Catholic family that relocated to East Tennessee when Mr. McCarthy’s father began working for TVA as a lawyer.

John 6 is often called the Bread of Life Discourse because it is there in Scripture that Jesus talks about the importance of receiving Him as the Bread of Life to gain eternal life. Even as some followers are confused and turn away, He is resolute in this message. It is here, the Church teaches, that Jesus explains the power of the sacrament of the Eucharist.

The transformation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is both miracle and mystery, something that we can never fully comprehend. But for 2,000 years the Church has diligently reflected on this mystery and has deepened her understanding of Christ’s eucharistic presence.