To the editor:
America sent many missionaries to Africa. Now Africa is sending them to us because the Catholic faith is growing there but has atrophied here. One such is Father Peter Shaba from Nigeria who said 10:30 Mass last Sunday at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Fryeburg, Maine. His homily on abortion was only the third I’ve heard in 30 years of attending Mass nearly every week all over New England.
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