Father Mark Rutherford On Filling Chaplain Shortage At Grand Forks AFB

Catholic Military Life

As one of senior clergy on staff at the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA (AMS), the Judicial Vicar, Father Mark Rutherford, J.C.L., recently experienced first-hand the impact of a growing shortage of Catholic U.S. Military chaplains. In the week leading up to Easter, he filled in for a recently deployed priest at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota. In this edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the AMS, Father Rutherford shares his experience of providing pastoral care to a flock without their local shepherd.