PITTSBURG, Kan. — With the beginning of a new semester came a new chaplain, Father Derek Thome, at St. Pius X Catholic Student Center, the Catholic church on the campus of Pittsburg State University. Thome grew up in a Catholic household in Goddard, Kansas, so it was no surprise to him when his mother told him that when he was a toddler, Thome would turn the TV to a church mass channel and use a flyswatter to pretend he was distributing communion. Later his father informed him that when he was baptized, Thome had a big smile on his face, and at that point his father told his sister that he wouldn’t be surprised if that was the moment God was calling him to be a priest.