Stephen D. Parkes

"It is a new place to live and many new people to get to know, but one thing is always the same, and that is Jesus Christ. Our faith in Christ brings us through whatever we face and whatever he asks of us."

"Priests are doctors of the soul. I feel very blessed that I was able to pursue that, being a physician of the soul."

"The family is so important when it comes to nurturing vocations that, really, they are born from a family, we don't fall out of the sky at 33 years old, wearing flowing robes. We are not hatched; we come from families."

"We grew up in a household that was a faith-filled home, we've been there for each other as priests and we'll be there for each other now as bishops."