Father Paul Schindler is where he wants to be and doing what he wants to do: tending to a large flock of parishioners at the Immaculate Conception Parish, the Diocese of Cleveland?s mission in La Libertad, El Salvador. He is pastor of two parishes and oversees 39 chapels with about 140,000 parishioners in an area about the size of the Cleveland diocese.
Padre Paul, as he is known to the Salvadorans, is celebrating 50 years as a priest and at age 76, he is in his second stint at the mission. He has spent 14 years