During a recent press conference in Costa Rica's capital, San Jose, Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa, who is on a Central American tour, revealed that she found God after suffering a severe depression. Sosa admitted that she is emerging from acute depression, which began several months ago and interrupted her singing. The singer attributed her improvement to her family's prayer and that of many other people. I have uncles who are priests and aunts who are nuns, who prayed for me while I was ill. The diocese of Tefe, in the Brazilian Amazon, has a surface area of 103,000 square miles.
Many parishes have no priests.
Others are looked after by nuns or catechists. During a personal visit to Santa Cruz, Bishop Mario Clemente Neto found no one who could read or direct the Sunday liturgy. In order to enable the community to have some time for reflection in common, the Bishop made a series of drawings to give direction to their worship. The initiative seems to work. Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera just returned to his diocese after a visit to Rome, where, among other things, he investigated the status of the various causes of proposed Mexican saints.