Saginaw, Mich., Mar 1, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The currents are set to change in the Diocese of Saginaw with the recent arrival of a new bishop.
Bishop Robert Carlson was installed as the new spiritual leader of Saginaw’s 139,000 Catholics last week. He succeeds Bishop Kenneth Untener, who died in March 2004.
The new bishop of the Michigan diocese believes he was named to the post to encourage vocations to the priesthood — a task at which he was very successful in his previous diocese.
This is a welcome message for the Diocese of Saginaw, which has only seen six ordinations in the last 10 years.