GEORGIA-MISSION

Archaeologist and anthropologist David Hurst Thomas talks with Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Savannah along the shore of St. Catherines Island in Georgia Oct. 14. Earlier in the day, the bishop celebrated Mass on the site of the island's mission church, which dates back to the 1570s and has been the subject of study by Thomas and others for nearly three decades. Scientists on the island continue to excavate with a sense of urgency as erosion from rising sea levels threaten the remains of a vanished American Indian community. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec) (Oct. 15, 2013) See story to come.

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Archaeologist and anthropologist David Hurst Thomas talks with Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Savannah along the shore of St. Catherines Island in Georgia Oct. 14. Earlier in the day, the bishop celebrated Mass on the site of the island's mission church, which dates back to the 1570s and has been the subject of study by Thomas and others for nearly three decades. Scientists on the island continue to excavate with a sense of urgency as erosion from rising sea levels threaten the remains of a vanished American Indian community. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec) (Oct. 15, 2013) See story to come.