Lorenzo Albacete
Lorenzo

Lorenzo

Lorenzo shuffled in, overweight and dishevelled and wearing an ill-fitting and badly stained clerical suit dusted with ash from his last few cigarettes. He began with risqué joke

Lorenzo RIP

Lorenzo RIP

Few people have had as significant influence on my life as Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete, and it was with great sadness that I learned of his death earlier today. You...

human experience

human experience

Last night I received an email from a mutual friend of Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete: Monsignor Albacete has had a lung failure and his condition is extremely grave....

the peripheries

the peripheries

I have a great respect and love for a Monsignor from Puerto Rico, Lorenzo Albacete. By chance a dozen years ago I heard him speak and was deeply moved by his love for...

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