Reflections of a Roman Catholic parish priest on Sunday lectionary readings and his favorite sports team, the Tennessee Volunteers
I am a Catholic priest of the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee. I am currently pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish. I have been breeding and showing Chinese Shar-Pei for nearly 21 years and have produced 27 AKC champions, breeding an average on one litter per year. Currently, I am not currently showing any dogs after specialing Ch. Preshar Jodao Baywalker ("Bailey). Bailey was the #1 Chinese Shar-Pei in the country for two successive years and the #1 qualifier for the CSPCA Top 25 Invitational three years in a row. She won Best of Breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show in 2005 and 2006, placing second in the Non-Sporting Group in 2006, the highest a Chinese Shar-Pei has ever placed. She took Best of Breed and a Group Third at the 2005 AKC/Eukanuba International Invitational. She is now retired from the show ring and will have a couple of litters of puppies. I was born in Buffalo, NY, was reared in central Ohio, and graduated high school in Bucks County, PA. I graduated from the University fo Tennessee in Knoxville and have been told that I "bleed orange."
