Bishop Francis has 273 students and a budget of $2.3 million.

Bishop Francis said there had been no recurrence of those problems.

At the moment, a good friend and spiritual adviser to this family, Bishop Francis, is with him.

Bishop Francis asked with the merest flicker of his eyelids.

Bishop Francis stepped away from the hearth, raising one fat pink hand.

Bishop Francis paused a moment, a gross figure against the gray morning mist.

The man might have been a cousin to Bishop Francis in the general shape of face and figure.

Bishop Francis bit his lower lip, teeth sinking deep into the wet pink flesh for a fraction of time.

He removed the folded letter carefully, handed it to Bishop Francis.

Bishop Francis, who had had several heart operations, had been using a treadmill before he died, she said.