Hope Can Overcome the Most Painful Experiences, Msgr. Bransfield Tells USCCB
CLEVELAND (CNS) — Suffering, physical or otherwise, “never cancels hope” no matter the circumstances, Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield told the bishops gathered online for the second day of their fall general assembly. Msgr. Bransfield, who ended his five-year term as general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as the assembly concluded Nov. 17, credited his childhood parish priest in his native Philadelphia, who later became a beloved seminary professor, with teaching him about hope.