Millstadt's ‘Father Bernie' leaving

After about 30 years as a priest, the Rev. Bernard Goedde, pastor of St. James Catholic Church in Millstadt, is taking a sabbatical beginning next week.

This is good news for him—six months in sunny California at the Vatican II Institute for the Clergy in Menlo Park, Calif.—but not such good news for Millstadt.

When "Father Bernie" returns he will not be coming back to St. James, but will be reassigned elsewhere, perhaps to a smaller parish, St. James trustee, Rich Brune said.

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