Wednesday, April 12, 2000

Delhi priest annointed military's 'good shepherd'

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BY Marie McCain
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        As newly ordained Bishop John J. Kaising thanked those who stared up at him from the packed pews of the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains Tuesday, his voice caught momentarily.

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien annoints Bishop John J. Kaising Tuesday. (Michael E. Keating photo) | ZOOM |

        “This requires a deep breath,” he said from the pulpit. “To see the cathedral bulging at the seams — I am truly humbled that this many people would come out for a kid born in Fairmount.”

        The former U.S. Army chaplain, who most recently served for two years as head of St. Dominic Parish in Delhi Township, was officially anointed an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A. during a two-hour ceremony at the downtown cathedral. More than 750 people attended the invitation-only event.

        Bishop Kaising, 63, was notified of his appointment in February. He spent 29 years in the Army as a uniformed chaplain amid the battlefields of Vietnam and eventually as an executive officer to the Chief of Chaplains in the Pentagon.

        He'll be one of four auxiliary bishops serving the military archdiocese, based in Washington, D.C. He was also appointed titular bishop of Orrea Celia, in Tunisia.

        “For the 1.4 million men and women in the military, he will be a truly good shepherd,” said Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, ordinary for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, U.S.A., who led Tuesday's ceremony.

       

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