Bishop-elect Brian Nunes
Bishop-elect Brian Nunes: Turning off the radio for God
Father Brian Nunes was sitting in his office working on his homily when he received the call.
It was the feast day of St. John the Baptist, the patron saint of Macau, a small territory near Hong Kong that was near and dear to Nunes’ heart.
As he pondered the Gospel — “What I say to you in the darkness, speak in the light; what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops” — the phone rang.
He picked it up.
It was Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, who typically gets the honor of telling priests that the pope has nominated them to become bishops. This time it was Nunes’ turn.