December 8, 2006

Correction

ATLANTA (CNS)—In a Catholic News Service story this summer that was published in the Aug. 25 issue of The Criterion, Divine Word Father Charles Smith mischaracterized his involvement in ministry to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Father Smith recently told The Georgia Bulletin, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, in an e-mail that although he once worked as a chaplain at the Terre Haute, Ind., prison where McVeigh was jailed, he never met one-on-one with McVeigh and “did not have regular one-on-one meetings with any inmate.”

The priest said he intended his talk to a workshop at the 2006 Interregional African-American Catholic Evangelization Conference as a way to “help people get an understanding of crisis ministry.” †

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