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An American Bishop is a collaboration among The Journal's print and online teams, including projo.com chief designer Mike Foran, designers Kathy DeVault and Beth Heaney, news producer maria caporizzo, photo editor and page designer Cecilia Prestamo, copy editor Milly McLean, and librarian Linda Henderson. It was edited by metro managing editor Susan Areson, with editorial direction from executive editor Joel P. Rawson, visuals managing editor Michael Delaney, and new media managing editor Thomas E. Heslin. © 2007, Published by The Providence Journal Co., 75 Fountain St., Providence, RI 02902 Source notes
Reporting on An American Bishop: Inside the World of One Cathedral Square began on Oct. 23, 2006, when G. Wayne Miller met Bishop Thomas J. Tobin for the first time, in Tobin’s office at One Cathedral Square. Two days later, Miller traveled with the bishop to a talk he gave at St. Raphael’s Academy in Pawtucket. Reporting continued for a year, into this fourth week of October 2007. During the year, Miller attended internal diocesan meetings, and spent time with the bishop at his home, in his office, and at the Diocesan seminary. He attended press conferences, fundraising events, a rally, a retreat for new priests, and a dinner for retired priests. He accompanied the bishop on visits to parishes, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, cemeteries, a mausoleum, a food bank, a Carmelite monastery, a Benedictine abbey, the State House, and commercial broadcast studios, among other places. He observed the rituals of Lent and Holy Week, an ordination, and confirmations. He heard dozens of Bishop Tobin’s sermons, and was allowed unrestricted access to the bishop’s extensive personal archive of photographs, letters, and other documents. The bishop granted a dozen formal, taped interviews to Miller. Miller also interviewed many of the bishop’s childhood and current friends, family members, and priests, nuns, and lay people associated with the Diocese of Providence. Some of these interviews were off the record. These are those who shared their time and insights into the bishop, the diocese, and the Roman Catholic Church: Rocco Palmo, who writes Whispers in the Loggia, the popular Catholic-insider blog; Mary L. Gautier, senior research associate, Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University; John Gehring, assistant director for Media Relations, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops; Cindy Tiedeman, chancery secretary, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa; Virginia Neff, assistant to the executive secretary, Pontifical North American College Alumni Association; William W. Hill, Department for Communications, Diocese of Pittsburgh; Ross C. Feltz, director, Marketing and Public Affairs, Saint Francis University; Marion F. Gallivan, Library Director, Nash Library, Gannon University; Robert J. Dobiesz, archivist, Nash Library, Gannon University. With the Diocese of Providence: the Rev. Msgr. Paul D. Theroux, vicar general and moderator of the curia; the Rev. Msgr. John J. Darcy, vicar general and chancellor; the Rev. Michael A. Colello, administrative secretary to the bishop; the Rev. Raymond B. Bastia, secretariat for planning and financial services; the Very Rev. Ronald P. Simeone, Vicar for Judicial Affairs; the Rev. Msgr. William I. Varsanyi, Delegate for Canonical Affairs; Rev. Albert A. Kenney, rector, Our Lady of Providence Seminary; the Rev. Michael J. Najim, vocation director; The Rev. Marcel L. Taillon, pastor, St. Thomas More parish, Narragansett; Rev. Msgr. Robert C. Evans, pastor, St. Philip parish, Greenville; the Rev. Robert W. Hayman, Diocesan historian; the Rev. Anthony Mancini, rector, Cathedral of Saints Peter & Paul; the Rev. Anthony W. Verdelotti, director, Catholic Cemetery Office; the Rev. Henry J. Bodah, chaplain, Brown University; the Rev. Joseph A. Pescatello, chaplain, Bryant University; and retired Bishops the Most Rev. Robert E. Mulvee, the Most Rev. Louis E. Gelineau, the Most Rev. George H. Pearce, and the Most Rev. Francis X. Roque. Also with the Diocese: Michael Sabatino, chief financial officer; David Beaudoin, Secretariat for Catholic Education, Spiritual Formation, and Evangelization; John J. Barry III, Secretariat for Social Ministry; Michael K. Guilfoyle, Communications Director; Karen Davis, public affairs manager; Velia Lisi, Chancellor's Office; Anthony Gwiazdowski, Stewardship and Development Office; Connie Thornton, Director of Pastoral Planning; Mary Beth Daigneault, administrator, Saint Clare Home, Newport; Mary Ann Altrui, former executive director, Saint Antoine Residence, North Smithfield; and Eileen Hannon, Blessed Sacrament parish, Providence. Interviews with these people were instrumental in researching Bishop Tobin’s biography: Marjorie (Tobin) Kreutzer, his sister; Mary Glorioso, formerly a nun, who taught Tom Tobin in grammar school; David G. Maire, Orlando, Florida, a childhood friend; the Very Rev. John B. Hagerty, an early mentor to Tobin; the Very Rev. Brian J. Welding, Judicial Vicar and Vice Chancellor, Diocese of Pittsburgh; Annamarie Staufer, a longtime friend. The Most Rev. R. Walker Nickless, seminary classmate and now Bishop of Sioux City, Iowa, provided input. These members of the local media also shared observations: Dan Yorke, talk show host, WPRO 630-AM; John DePetro, talk show host, WPRO 630-AM; Jim Hummel, reporter, ABC6 news; and Steve Aveson, anchor, Channel 12 news.
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