Wise and Otherwise: The Life and Times of a Cottonpicking Texas Bishop

From the authors Introduction..."Are you alone??" asked the voice at the other end of the telephone line. "Yes," I said. "I am Archbishop Jean Jadot, the Apostolic Delegate," the voice said. " I have good news for you. We have a new bishop for Amarillo." I had been serving as administrator of the Catholic Diocese of Amarillo following the death of Bishop Lawrence M. DeFalco, and had gone to the office on a Saturday morning in March, 1980, to check the desk. We had been without a bishop for seven months and were expecting an announcement momentarily. "That's great," I said. "May I ask who?" "You," he said."......