More details on Detroit's new auxiliary bishop-elect

CNA gives us the news on camera: "Bishop-elect Flores was born in Palacios, Texas, and grew up in Corpus Christi. He was ordained a priest in January 1988 and served the diocese as rector of Corpus Christi Cathedral and as chancellor. Flores completed his License in Sacred Theology in 1997 and his Doctorate three years later at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. He also served in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston on the formation faculty, as vice-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and on the teaching faculty at the University of St. Thomas School of Theology."

Whispers, the news off camera: "[Bishop-elect Flores is] "a genius and at home in the Patristics," I'm told, blessed with the rare knack of being able to "compare and contrast something Augustine said in his Confessions to Star Wars or Lord of the Rings," apparently with the wish of being able to eventually teach a class on the Catholic theology of the Tolkien trilogy."

[Photo: Ankur Dholakia, The Detroit News]