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November 5, 2017

Story of Great War chaplain lives on in Newfoundland

Soldiers await chaplain service and free coffee in Arras (near Calais) France, September 1918.

In the years following World War I, it would not be unusual for a Catholic family in Newfoundland to have three portraits hanging in their home: Pope Benedict XV, Newfoundland Archbishop E.P. Roche … and Fr. Thomas Nangle.

Published in Features