Michael the Archangel Parish, Greenfield, where has served since 2016. John the Evangelist Parish, Carrollton All Saints Parish, White Hall and St. Rita Parish in Kincaid and Holy Trinity Parish in Stonington.įather Chatla is former parochial administrator and current pastor of St. From 2013 to 2016 he was parochial vicar of St. “I had three parishes in the Diocese of Tortona, which were in the Alessandria Province before I came to the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois in March 2013,” he says. While in Rome, he was a parochial vicar in the Alessandria Province in North Italy. Mary Parish in Taylorville, one of the parishes where he was later a parochial vicar. In the summer of 2004, Father Chatla spent several months interning at Catholic Times, and that was also the first of several summers he spent in ministry at St. He served in his home diocese until 2003, when he was then asked to do ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Ann Parish, Sattenapalli, Andhra Pradesh, South India on March 23, 1995. He was ordained for the Diocese of Guntur in St. Perhaps more than most priests serving in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, Father Mariadas Chatla has had a variety of experiences that have seen him serving in some very different cultures. Congratulations to these seven fine priests! Celebrating 25 Years Celebrating 70 years are Father Peter Donohoe and Father Carl Schmidt. The golden jubilarians are Father Don Blaeser, OFM, Father Michael Grawe, OFM, and Father Dennis Koopman, OFM. Celebrating a silver jubilee in 2020 are Father Mariadas Chatla and Father Jeffrey Goeckner. To read authors such as James Baldwin, Annie Dillard, Doris Lessing, Sharon Olds, and Philip Roth as they explore aspects of their fathers is to open maps of possibility.Every spring Catholic Times recognizes priests who have served in and are living in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois and are observing important jubilees sometime in the calendar year.

Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and Virginia Woolf, the anthology is full of wit, wisdom and insight. With personal essays and poems by 5 Nobel laureates, 7 Pulitzer winners, and writers such as Angela Carter, Thomas Hardy, Franz Kafka. Fathers: A Literary Anthology is a collection of 49 essays and poems focusing on fathers.

Fathers by Andre J.D. Gerard