Father Joseph Franz can point to two life-changing moments for leading him to the priesthood – his father’s death and his divorce. “It was difficult,” he says of his father’s death 25 years ago. Gerald Franz died after a six-month battle with cancer. Father Joseph, the fifth of six kids born and raised in East Eden, […]
It seemed very appropriate that on the 175th anniversary of the diocese’s founding that two men named Joseph were ordained at St. Joseph Cathedral. Joseph Franz and Joseph Tokasz celebrated the rite of commissioning a minister on June 4 in the downtown church. “As we know St. Joseph, who is our patron of the diocese; […]