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Ordination: June 27, 1970, Louvain,Belgium
Current assignment: Pastor of Malone Catholic Parishes (St. John Bosco, Notre Dame, St.Helen, St.Joseph)

1.) What's your favorite prayer?
Our Father, The Prayer of St. Francis

2.) Favorite saint?
St. Joseph (namesake whose feast day is the date of my birth). I pray that I could be as
silent and good as this great man.

3.) A holy moment in your priesthood:
Retreat with my parents at Lourdes, Celebrating Mass.

4.) Favorite part of being a priest:
I feel privileged and humbled to be invited into some of the most personal parts of peoples’
live. And I am thrilled that all of this is possible because of the Church.

5.) Advice for young people considering a vocation
Being a priest is a good place to find joy and happiness, and lots of work.

6.) Something about you that few people would know:
Every early July I am dumbfounded that anyone could be so stupid as to run with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. I ran twice with the
bulls, once as a seminarian and once as a young priest. Stupid, but it helps me appreciate the exuberance of youth..

7.) Favorite temporal (nonchurchy) things:
Golf and traveling

8.) Favorite food:
Sliders and raspberry pie