And on June 15, 2024, this “beautiful priest,” as Msgr. Panke describes him today, was ordained by Cardinal Wilton Gregory at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

He served as a chaplain for Vietnamese refugees in the US after the fall of South Vietnam to communism in 1975. He also served as director of the Vietnamese Pastoral Center, New Orleans Archdiocese, ...