Meet the ‘Roaming Catholics’ of Pacific Palisades
Eighty-year-old Msgr. Liam Kidney, pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades, has seen a lot in his 57 years as a priest.
But since January, Kidney has taken up a Sunday routine unlike anything he could have ever imagined: celebrating Mass at a parish not his own, but for a congregation that is.
Since the Palisades Fire incinerated his church — and the homes of most of his parishioners — Kidney has found himself a displaced shepherd to a wandering flock.
“We’re the roaming Catholics,” said one Corpus Christi parishioner with a chuckle — and a hint of pride — as Kidney’s hosts at St. Anastasia Church in Westchester showed him around the church’s newly renovated sanctuary.