Last Catholic priest at South Pole

This story is making the rounds: the Catholics at the South Pole won’t have regular contact with a Catholic priest as they have had in the past. The Catholic Church through her priests has been ministering not only to Catholics but others for a long time at US McMurdo Station on Ross Island –at the end of the earth. Very few can say they’ve been to the end of the earth!

A military priest will visit from time-to-time. I happen to think the decision to cut funding is short-sided –“Where 2 or 3 are gathered there I am” comes to mind. Here is the BBC story about Fr Dan Doyle in the South Pole.