For the past year or so I have been serving at St. Joseph’ s as the “weekend priest.”  I have been retired for almost three years now, and live in Palm Desert, California.  But I come to Placentia on Thursday afternoons, and stay until Monday. 

My duties include celebrating the Eucharist, hearing confessions, teaching Scripture on Fridays at the school to the eighth graders, and generally doing whatever I can around the campus.  This is a wonderful parish, with great clergy and staff, and I am happy to be here!

I was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio, a suburb southeast of Cleveland.  I graduated from high school in 1962, and a year later entered the seminary with the Marist Fathers religious order.  I studied theology at Catholic University in Washington, DC, with two years of post-graduate work in Toronto.  While teaching at Marist School in Atlanta in the 1970’s, I earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Theology at Emory University in Atlanta. 

I joined the Diocese of Orange in 1984 and have served in parish work and campus ministry.  I taught religious studies at Cal State Fullerton for a number of years until being appointed pastor at St. Columban Church in Garden Grove in 1993, serving there for ten years.

My other assignments included being the rector at Holy Family Cathedral in Orange, and pastor at St. John Neumann in Irvine.

Thanks to all of you who have welcomed me so warmly here at St. Joseph.  I hope to get to know you better in the coming years!