{"id":13338,"date":"2013-01-26T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=13338"},"modified":"2017-01-24T17:52:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:52:05","slug":"my-bishop-gave-the-homily-at-stan-musials-funeral-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2013\/01\/my-bishop-gave-the-homily-at-stan-musials-funeral-mass.html","title":{"rendered":"My Bishop Gave the Homily at Stan Musials’ Funeral Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\nI\u2019ve posted about Bishop Richard Stika<\/a> a few times in the past. But to be honest, I don\u2019t really know him. I don\u2019t live in the parish close to the Chancery, and none of my children have been confirmed yet (though my oldest will be soon). So I can truthfully write that I have never shaken his hand, been introduced to him, or ever heard him speak in person.<\/p>\n

I would suspect, then, \u00a0that I am a lot like most of you in this regard. I do know that he follows this blog on Facebook (at least he \u201cliked\u201d the blogs\u2019 FB page at one point), and I know from his own blog<\/a> that he came from St. Louis, and that he\u2019s a huge fan of the St. Louis Cardinals. \u00a0A bishop who likes baseball? What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n

Then I saw this flash across my Facebook,<\/p>\n

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and thought to myself, \u201cHow cool is that?\u201d And I learned something else about Bishop Stika, from my friend Frank Murphy\u2019s blog<\/a>. He had been the pastor at Musial\u2019s\u2019 church in suburban St. Louis for a time.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Stika and the Musials<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Naturally, this development made the local news.<\/p>\n