A Catholic priest is called to serve. But for Father Ray, that call was getting harder to answer.
After seven years as pastor at St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco, last year Father Raymund Reyes, 62, was in kidney failure. He was tired all the time, and dialysis three days a week wiped out what little energy he had left. He was put on a waiting list for a kidney transplant, but told it could take eight years.
About 30,000 people are added to kidney transplant waiting lists in the United States every year, but only 22,000 transplants are performed. Hundreds of people die each year waiting for an organ…