A New Source of RCC Priests -- Vietnam
At 63, Father Eamon O'Gorman is the youngest Irish-born priest in the Diocese of Orange and, he says, one of the last participants in the ecclesiastical immigrant wave from that country that ended in the 1970s.
He also is nearing retirement."I am inspired by the Vietnamese priests with whom I serve," O'Gorman said in a thick Irish brogue.
"There's a level of devotion, an enthusiasm for what they do and a desire to keep their culture intact."
He is energized by witnessing the parallels between his own immigrant experience and theirs."I look at the Vietnamese and can very much see them as the new Irish," he said. "I don't think their experience will be that different."
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