For priest, move to accept Fort Hood post was calling
November 10, 2009
-By John M. Guilfoil
Globe Correspondent
Killeen, TX (MetroCatholic) – The Rev. Edward McCabe didn’t want to go to Fort Hood when the assignment came for the Army Reserves captain to become senior Catholic chaplain at the sprawling military post.
McCabe, a priest from Milton attached to the Archdiocese of Boston, had lived around water all his life, and a land-locked post in Texas offered no appeal.
But, he said, something called him to accept the post.
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