The Very Reverend James Patrick Fischler, CICM

A good priest to have as Dean of the Uvalde Deanery.

"Why aren't there more like him?"

Source: Del Rio News - Herald obituary section. In re: Mary Bridget Clements.

As the News - Herald tells us:

"Visitations will be Monday, 09:00 - 11:00 A.M., June 9, 2008 at Mary Queen of the Universe Catholic Church, Comstock, Texas [one of Monsignore Fischler's churches for which he is personally responsible].

"Funeral Mass will begin at 11:30 A.M. also at Mary Queen of the Universe Catholic Church with internment to follow at Comstock Cemetery, Comstock, Texas;

"Officiating will be Father Stephen Zigrang, SSPX [former diocesan priest from the Houston - Galveston archdiocese, now serving more or less independently with Archbishop Lefebvre's group, the so - called Society of St. Pius X :( ]."

Given the tragic aspects associated with this young woman's violent death and the law - enforcement questions allegedly surrounding it, I personally think that it was to Monsignore Fischler's credit that he let the shocked and bereaved family exercise their own religious preferences for pre - Vatican II Latin rituals in one of his own more or less archdiocesan mission churches.