More on the New Bishop for Springfield--Cape G.

The newspaper down Springfield way had an article about the new bishop in southern Missouri.

You can read it here. It is a good article about an apparently great priest.

The article does, however, have a terribly constructed sentence.

To wit:

Both Knoxville and southern Missouri share some issues that have troubled the Catholic Church, including clergy abuse and calls for a return to the Latin Mass.

Those two issues have no reason to be in the same sentence and a more thoughtful or less hurried writer would have recognized that.

Moving along:

Johnston's country music roots run deep, so he quickly named fellow east Tennesseans Dolly Parton and Chet Atkins as his favorite country artists. But he admitted that he especially enjoys the music of Alan Jackson.

"He has good insight into the human condition," he said.

Jackson's songs may have inspired Johnston, who said he hopes to bring "a ministry after the heart of Jesus Christ ... the heart of compassion and the heart of a teacher" to his new diocese.

As some of you know, the diocese in question includes Branson, MO, the second largest country music destination in the U.S. Is there anything Rome does not think of?