Cape Catholics celebrate Nigerian's ordination

On Friday, Patrick Nwokoye will become a father. Nwokoye's ordination into the priesthood of the Catholic Church Friday evening at St. Mary's Cathedral is an event all area Catholics can celebrate despite weeks of troubling scandals for parishes across the nation. "It says that something can happen and this gives us something grand to celebrate. There is hope even in the midst of all the mess," said the Rev. J. Friedel, a priest and director of Catholic Campus Ministries at Southeast Missouri State University. For more on this story, read Friday's Southeast Missourian.