Unchecked power destroys the souls of individuals and of nations. As an American who has served as a bishop in Latin America for 13 years, I have watched it happen over and over again.
Robert Flock
Robert Herman Flock is bishop of the Diocese of San Ignacio de Velasco in eastern Bolivia. He obtained a licentiate in biblical theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1983 and was ordained a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin in 1982. He became a missionary to Bolivia in 1988, was ordained auxiliary bishop of Cochabamba in 2013 and became the bishop of San Ignacio de Velasco in 2017.
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How Catholics can use this time without the Eucharist to grow closer to Christ
In discerning the necessity to avoid contagion in comparison with the need to offer access to the sacraments, it is necessary to comprehend what is at stake in each area.