Installation of Bishop Kevin J. Farrell, Dallas, TX

Unfortunately, my camera was lost while in Dallas earlier this week for the grand installation of a close and special friend, our former Vicar General, Bishop Kevin Farrell. The Dallas News has the following collection of pictures of the major event of Installation . Bishop Farrell has one momentous challenge ahead. There are one million plus known Catholics in the diocese with only 70 parishes and just over 70 priests. There are also a number of religious order priests. The Cathedral parish in center city Dallas lists more than 15,000 registered parish households ... and there are no households in the Cathedral boundaries than any of us there could discover. Dallas downtown is just one tall building after another with hardly a shop in sight ... just eateries.
Another highlight for me and most of the 30 DC priests was a visit to the site of the John Kennedy assassination and the Book Depository. The walking tour in the building where Lee Harvey Oswald hid and carried out the lethal shooting of President Kennedy is surely a tourist spot not to be overlooked. The almost 2 hour tape-guided tour greatly impacted all of us.