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Show Abbey Recalls 2 Priests To Hew Duly Two Catholic priests, members mem-bers of the Benedictine order who have been serving in Utah more than seven years, have been ordered to their abbey for reassignment, according to Most Rev. Duane O. Hunt, bishop of the Bait Lake Catholic diocese. Rev. Blase Schumacher, OSB, has been pastor of the parish at Roosevelt, Duchesne county, and has done misslonsry work among the TJte Indiana. He arrived. ar-rived. In Utah In .July, 143, and left recently for St John's abbeys ab-beys CollegevUle, Minn, for reassignment. re-assignment. Leaving for the abbey In September Sep-tember will be Rev. Wendell Luetaer, OSB, pastor of the . Catholic church at Vernal. TJln- tan county, rather Luetner arrived ar-rived in Utah In July, 1943. Both priests have supervised construction of new churches m their parishes since arrival a the state. They were assigned to the diocese to assist temporarily. tem-porarily. Members of the Benedictine Bene-dictine order are assigned positions posi-tions by abbey authorities, and In that respect are Independent of the diocese la which they work. Priests from the diocese win be appointed to the parishes this fall. Bishop Hunt said. |