Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / The Rev. David Carter, pastor of the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, carries the monstrance containing the consecrated Host during a Corpus Christi procession on June 2. The procession's route was along Eighth Street to Georgia Avenue, down McCallie Avenue and returning to the church by Lindsey Avenue.
The Rev. David Carter keeps the photo close at hand: His first mass as a priest at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Knoxville. He pronounced the words that he believes, through the power of the Holy Spirit, transformed the bread and wine before him into the flesh and blood...
