I really do not know what people would want to know about me, so here is a quick bio.  I was born in Trenton, NJ.  I am the oldest, and I have three sisters (Ann, Jennifer, and Mary).  I attended St. Raphael’s grade school.  My first three years of high school was done at McCorristin Catholic, and my final year of high school was at the US Capitol Page School in Washington, DC.

I attended King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA majoring in psychology, and government and politics.  I then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I earned a Masters and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology.

My first job was at the University of Memphis in their counseling center.  Then after a time as a novice for the Dominicans, I worked at a community mental health center in Indiana, then as a professor at Columbia College in Missouri.

In 1998 I decided that God was calling me to priesthood, so I was accepted by the Diocese of Trenton and attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia.  I was ordained a priest in 2004, and first assigned to St. James Church in Red Bank, NJ.  I was assigned to Our Lady of Sorrows-St. Anthony in Dec. 2005, and served there until August, 2008. 

In August, 2008 I was assigned to St. Theresa Parish in Little Egg Harbor, NJ.  This is the first time that I have been assigned to Ocean County (the Diocese of Trenton encompasses four counties in NJ; Mercer, Monmouth, Burlington, and Ocean).  In a real sense, St. Theresa’s is the last outpost in the Diocese of Trenton, as it is as far south and east in the Diocese you can go.  St. Theresa is about 15 miles north of Atlantic City.  While I have only been here for a little while, I have really come to love St. Theresa’s.  Of course, I have loved all of my assignments, but I think I am having more fun as a priest here.  For a variety of reasons, the people here have just really responded so warmly to me and the new administrator, Fr. Mick.  And I am learning a lot.

The other “thing” that I am really “in to” is the ecclesial movement known as Communion and Liberation.  “Communion and Liberation is an ecclesial movement whose purpose is the education to Christian maturity of its adherents and collaboration in the mission of the Church in all the spheres of contemporary life.

Communion and Liberation began in Italy in 1954 when Msgr. Luigi Giussani established a Christian presence in Berchet high school in Milan with a group called Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth), GS for short.

The current name of the movement, Communion and Liberation (CL), appeared for the first time in 1969. It synthesizes the conviction that the Christian event, lived in communion, is the foundation of the authentic liberation of man. Communion and Liberation is present today in about seventy countries throughout the world. There is no type of membership card, but only the free participation of persons.”