KANSAS CITY (MO)
Kansas City Star
BY BRIAN BURNES
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JUDY L. THOMAS
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AND ROBERT A. CRONKLETON
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The bishop who soon will lead northwest Missouri’s Catholics can cite both healing and heroism on his resume.
And he recognizes that a significant need for healing exists in the community still stinging from recent child abuse scandals, Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. said Tuesday as he was introduced as the seventh bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese.
“But I also believe that the one that truly heals is Jesus,” Johnston said at the Catholic Center in downtown Kansas City. “And so I see my role as the bishop as sort of being a physician’s assistant — to be a person that facilitates some of that healing.”
Johnston will move north later this year from the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, which he has led for seven years. He will be installed Nov. 4.
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