Bishop John Ricard, SSJ, of
Pensacola-Tallahassee, preaches to seminary students during Mass at
St. Peter's Regional Seminary in Pedu, outside Cape Coast, Ghana. Bishop Ricard
was leading a delegation representing the U.S. bishops' subcommittee on the
Church in Africa, and a solidarity trip to the African nation of Ghana and
Nigeria.
Other members of the delegation included Washington Auxiliary Bishop
Martin A.Holley and Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y. Bishop Ricard holds
a 6-month-old Richard Samuel at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akawanga,
Nigeria. Bishop Ricard, and Bishop Holley, along with
Rosaline GanDzide, listen as a guide describes the former slave dungeon at the
Cape Coast Castle Museum in Cape Coast, Ghana.
