[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 20, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H6737]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   INTRODUCTION OF THE MOST REVEREND DONALD W. WUERL, ARCHBISHOP OF 
                               WASHINGTON

  (Mr. MURPHY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank our guest chaplain 
today, the Archbishop Donald Wuerl, for leading us in prayer.
  He attended Saint Mary of the Mount parish and school, and then 
studied at the Athenaeum of Ohio in Cincinnati, was ordained to the 
priesthood in 1966. He received graduate degrees from the Catholic 
University of America, the Gregorian University in Rome, and his 
doctoral in theology from Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 1974.
  He began his career as an assistant pastor at Saint Rosalia parish in 
Pittsburgh. There he became a secretary to Pittsburgh Bishop John 
Wright. From 1981 to 1985, he served as rector for Saint Paul's 
Seminary in Pittsburgh, and in 1988 Bishop Wuerl was installed as the 
11th Bishop of Pittsburgh, where for 18 years he led 800,000 Roman 
Catholics in 214 parishes throughout southwestern Pennsylvania.
  We also knew him in Pittsburgh for his weekly television program, 
``The Teaching of Christ,'' which is now widely distributed through the 
Christian Associates cable channel, and throughout its national 
syndication. As a writer, his best-selling catechism of the same name 
is now in its 30th year of publication and has been translated into 
more than 10 languages and used throughout the world.
  We are very grateful for Archbishop Wuerl's presence here. We are 
sorry to have him gone from Pittsburgh, but we know he will do a great 
job now in the diocese of Washington, DC.

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