Posts Tagged ‘Conflict with Vatican’

The Bishop who ran a petrol station for 34 years

Friday, September 4th, 2015

After a disagreement with the Pope, a bishop resigned his position and spent the next 34 years working in a petrol station and writing a weekly column for his local newspaper. In 1903 Bonaventure Finbarr Francis Broderick, at the early age of 34, had been appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Read more