Ky. diocese seeks foreign priests to plug clergy shortage

The Rev. Darrell Venters, lean and leathery as the Marlboro man – a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone with a ring tone like a church bell in the other – spends most of his days recruiting priests from overseas to serve in the small towns, rolling hills and farmland that make up the […]

The Rev. Darrell Venters, lean and leathery as the Marlboro man – a cigarette in one hand and a cellphone with a ring tone like a church bell in the other – spends most of his days recruiting priests from overseas to serve in the small towns, rolling hills and farmland that make up the Roman Catholic Diocese of Owensboro.

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