Working in a Cultural, Spiritual Exchange

He sits in a padded office chair, quietly observing the other person in the conversation. His answers are clear and calculated.

After several years, he still approaches western Nebraska with an

Fr.C.P.Varghese is nearing completion of his first year at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Sidney. Prior to Sidney, he was in Bridgeport, Bayard and Dalton. In his eight years in the United States, he also pastored in North Platte, before coming to the U.S. from India.

“I came for a break from India,” he said recently.

He spent 20 years as a priest in India.

The differences between Panhandle Nebraska a...