Reverend Manuel Dorantes speaks at his former parish Immaculate Conception in an undated photo in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Karen Callaway/Archdiocese of Chicago/Handout via REUTERS.
(Reuters) - Reverend Manuel Dorantes closed his eyes, took a breath to calm his fear and prayed when word came that Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich had put out a call for volunteers.
Cupich, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, needed two dozen young priests to take on the sacred duty of administering the last rites to those dying from the new and highly contagious coronavirus.
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