David and Kathy Rennie of Bloomington, Minnesota had an experience of
being rich with poor outside their gate when traveling to India in 1985
to adopt their sixth child (their fifth adoption). Kathy had long
desired to adopt a little girl from India, and had been inspired to do
so by the life and work of St. Teresa of Calcutta. Kathy’s mother, Rose
Mayer, had sponsored a poor seminarian more than a decade before, and
the Rennies contacted him during their visit to India. This seminarian
was now a priest working as a secretary to the bishop of his diocese,
and after they made contact he helped them overcome the difficulties
they were having in adopting their daughter. It was through knowing Fr.
Sebastian Thekethecheril, who was consecrated as Bishop of the Diocese
of Vijayapuram in Kottayam, Kerala, India, in 2006, that the Rennies saw
firsthand the great poverty of the Christian people of Kerala.
Read the rest at the National Catholic Register...
Confessions of a Catholic Mom and Philosopher's Wife
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