N.D. priest to return to Iraq as chaplain

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N.D. priest to return to Iraq as chaplain
By Stephen J. Lee - Grand Forks Herald
Posted : Saturday Feb 9, 2008 7:02:51 EST

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Just two years after getting back from a tour on active duty as a chaplain in Iraq, Monsignor Brian Donahue has decided to go back.

The Roman Catholic priest, a vicar general of the Fargo diocese and a pastor in Kindred and Wild Rice, received a Bronze Star for his service in 2005 in Iraq with a unit of the Texas National Guard.

Last year, he retired as a major from the North Dakota Army National Guard after 20 years of service as a chaplain, including active duty in the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

But the commander of the same Texas Guard unit asked Donahue to go with the soldiers again when they return to Iraq next fall.

“I had been praying about it the last year or so, working with my spiritual director,” Donahue, 52, said Thursday. It’s a matter both of the spirit and the body for Donahue.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/02/ap_chaplain_080208/



uhc comment: The military has had a hard time recruiting chaplains -->

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