By Carl Bunderson
.- In 1968 Joe Mahoney was serving with the Marines in South Vietnam, where he met Father Paul Nguyen Thanh Hoan, whom he always thought was killed when the North overran the region in 1975.
Many priests were imprisoned and killed when the South was overtaken, and so Mahoney was \”quite confident he was dead\” and never looked up Fr. Paul.
But earlier this year, he finally discovered that God had preserved Fr. Nguyen, made him Bishop Nguyen, and helped him found a religious community.
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