Tyler Cathedral Honors Outgoing Pope

TYLER — At 1:00 Thursday afternoon, the bells of Tyler’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception tolled for eight minutes to signal the official end of Pope Benedict’s pontificate. The cathedral’s Father Anthony McGlaughlin told KETK, “We relate to him as a father figure, not just simply as a distant CEO or as a president, and in a very familial way, so we will miss him. He was a tremendous, tremendous gift.”