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Leaven Fall 2009, Volume 18, Number 1 (Continued from Page 27) October 13. • Father David D. DeWitt, S’84, has been named pastor of Incarnation of the Lord Parish, Observatory Hill/Perry North, and pastor, Risen Lord Parish, Marshall/Shadeland, for a term of six years, effective September 14. • Father David E. Scharf, S’85, has been named chaplain of the Sisters of Saint Joseph at Saint Joseph Motherhouse, Baden, and chaplain to the residents and staff of Villa Saint Joseph, Baden, effective September 1. He maintains residence at Saint John Vianney Manor. • Bishop Zubik ordained Michael Zavage and Daniel Langa to the priesthood on Saturday, June 27. Father Langa has been appointed as parochial vicar of Saint Louise de Marillac Parish, Upper Saint Clair, effective July 13. Father Zavage has been named parochial vicar of Saint Anne Parish, Castle Shannon, effective July 13. • Robert Fleckenstein was ordained to the diaconate on June 20 by Bishop Zubik. Deacon Fleckenstein, who is assigned to Saint Mary of the Assumption Parish in Glenshaw, assisted with the diocesan Festival of Praise, held this summer to mark the start of the Year of the Priest. He appeared in a photo along with Bishop Zubik and another seminarian in the McKeesport Daily News. • Father Joseph Carr was named parochial vicar of Saint Kilian Parish, Adams/Cranberry, effective July 13. He had been serving as parochial vicar of Good Samaritan Parish, Ambridge, Saint John the Baptist Parish, Baden, and chaplain at Quigley Catholic High School. • Father James G. Salberg, S’69, has been named to a third six-year term as pastor of Saint Andrew Parish, Center Township, effective June 23. • Father Stephen A. Kresak has been named pastor of Saint Mary Czestochowa Parish, McKeesport, and pastor of Saint Pius V Parish, McKessport, for six years, effective October 5, 2009. • Father Edward S. Litavec, C’56, S’60, has retired, effective October 5, 2009. He most recently served as pastor of Saint Mary Czestochowa Parish, McKeesort and Saint Pius V Parish, McKeesport. • Father Michael L. Yaksick, S’94, has been named part-time chaplain at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School, effective August 27. He also will provide sacramental assistance to the Catholic students and staff at Robert Morris University, in addition to his responsibilities as pastor of Saint Blaise Parish, Midland. • Father John M. Bachkay, S’83, has been named pastor of Saint Sylvester Parish, Brentwood, for a term of six years, effective July 1, 2009. • Father Kevin F. McKnight, S’94, has been named parochial vicar of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Parish, Pleasant Hills, effective July 1, 2009. • Father Richard G. Terdine, C’61, S’65, has been named full-time chaplain to the Catholic patients and staff at UPMC Shadyside, effective July 1, 2009, with responsibility for sacramental and emergency pastoral care at Magee-Women’s Hospital, effective July 1, 2009. He will reside at the Cardinal Dearden Center. • Father James F. Murphy, C’66, S’70, has been named dean, pro tem, of the Butler County Deaner, from June 9 to October 1, 2009. He maintains his responsibilities as pastor of Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen Parish, Lyndora/ Meridian. Father Philip Farrell, S’93, was named one of three regional vicars by Bishop Zubik. * * * * ** * * * * (Continued on page 29) Father Matt McClain, S’02, New Vocation Director for Diocese of Pittsburgh Father Matthew McClain, S’02, has been named Director of Vocations for the Diocese of Pittsburgh by Bishop David Zubik. He had most recently served as pastor of Saint Peter’s, Slippery Rock, and Saint Anthony Church, Forestville, as well as director of Campus Ministry at the Newman Center of Slippery Rock University. He began his new position in April. Citing Bishop Edward Burns, now Bishop of Juneau, Alaska, as vocation director for the diocese when he felt his call to priesthood, McClain said “I am excited about the appointment because I am excited about the priesthood and about the church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. There is a new excitement about living the faith in our diocese. “Bishop Zubik has engaged people where they are—in real life—and has encouraged us to see that our faith is powerful and relevant in today’s society,” McClain told Pittsburgh Catholic. “I am so excited to talk about the priesthood because I have seen firsthand what an awesome, humbling, meaningful and powerful life it can be.” Ordained only seven years ago, he said that “it will be helpful that my seminary experience was not too long ago.... I think that I can give some insight to men who are not sure what to expect.” 28
Leaven Fall 2009, Volume 18, Number 1 (Continued from Page 28) Seminary Board of Regents member Hon. Maureen Lally-Green will retire from the state Superior Court on July 31 and join the Diocese of Pittsbugh pastoral administration as director of the Office for Church Relations. She will represent the diocese to civic, charitable, service and community organizations throughout the region, working with various diocesan administrative offices to advance the mission of the Church. Judge Lally-Green was appointed to the Superior Court in 1998 and elected to a full ten-year term in 1999. Prior to that she was an associate with a private law firm in Pittsburgh, counsel to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., counsel to Westinghouse Electric Corp., a research associate and consultant to justices of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court for 12 years, and a full professor of law at Duquesne University’s School of Law for 15 years. * * * * * In the Diocese of Tulsa, Bishop Edward J Slattery has named Father James Caldwell the new pastor at Saint Joseph Parish in Krebs and Saint Paul Parish in Eufaula. He continues as chaplain for the Knights of Columbus, Rachel’s Vineyard and Retrouvaille. Father Stuart Crevcoure, pastor of Saint John the Evangelist University Parish in Stillwater and chaplain of Oklahoma State University’s Newman Center, wrote on Saint Paul in the September 2009 i ssue of Eastern Oklahoma Catholic, the magazine of the Diocese of Tulsa. * * * * * Monsignor George R. Coyne of the Diocese of Steubenville, and Monsignor Paul Lenz, C’46, S’49, D’95, of the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, members of the Board of Regents, also marked jubilees in 2009. Monsignor Coyne is celebrating 50 years as a priest, while Monsignor Lenz is celebrating 60 years of priesthood. Monsignor Lenz retired after 31 years as the national director of the Catholic Church’s Black and Indian Mission Office, Washington, D.C., in 2007. He is postulator of the Cause of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. * * * * * Also celebrating a jubilee this year was Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Diocese of Savannah, who marked his golden jubilee of priestly odination at Saint Patrick Church in Cork City, Ireland, July 8, and in the diocese on June 10 at the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist. * * * * * In the Diocese of Youngstown, Bishop George Murry, S.J., has announced the following appointments: • Father Peter Haladej, administrator of Saint Aloysius Parish in East Liverpool and Immaculate Conception Parish in Wellsville, effective May 1, 2009. He was associate pastor of Saint Christine Parish in Youngstown prior to his new assignment. • Brian Cline and Michael Marcelli were ordained transitional deacons July 18 by Bishop Murry on July 18 at Saint Columba Cathedral. * * * * * Father Martin Celuch, S’02, was featured in the September 18, 2009 edition of The Catholic Exponent, newspaper of the Diocese of Youngstown. Now studying law at Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., he serves as an advocate on the Diocesan Tribunal. A native of Sverzov, Slovakia, he also has a brother who is a priest studying for a doctorate in theology in Germany. The complete article is included on the new alumni section of the Seminary website, saintvincentseminary.edu, under the people section. * * * * * In the Diocese of Steubenville, Bishop R. Daniel Conlon ordained Bradley Greer, a diocesan seminarian, and Brother Francis Dankoski, of the Order of Sacred and Immaculate Hearts of Jesus and Mary, to the priesthood on May 30. The ceremony took place at Holy Name Cathedral, Steubenville. In an article appearing in the Steubenville Register, Father Francis credited his mother, Diane, who died in 1999, with leading him to religious life. Born in Hong Kong, he moved frequently, but his mother always “had a church as home base,” he said. * * * * * In the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Archbishop Wilton Gregory ordained Thang Pham and Carlos Vargas to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, May 16 at the Cathedral of Christ the King. The Cathedral was also the setting for the June 27 priesthood ordinations of Salomon Garcia-Cortes and Dominic Tran. * * * * * At Saint Vincent Archabbey, Bishop Lawrence Brandt of the Diocese of Greensburg ordained Brother Bonaventure Curtis, O.S.B., to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, May 30, and Brother Joseph Adams, O.S.B., to the priesthood on May 16, in the Archabbey Basilica. William J. Hisker, C’69, S’05, and Daniel 29 Frescura, S’02 were ordained permanent deacons at Our Lady of Grace Parish, Greensburg on August 10 by Bishop Brandt. In the diocese, Bishop Brandt announced the following appointments: Father Joseph E. Bonafed, S’92, pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, Connellsville and administrator of Saint Rita Parish, Connellsville, and administrator of Saint John the Evangelist Parish, Connellsville, effective July 31. Father Timothy J. Kruthaupt, parochial vicar of the Church of the Resurrection Parish, Clymer, and chaplain to the Indiana Regional Medical Center, while continuing as assistant director for Clergy Vocations and chaplain to the Saint Thomas More Society of the Diocese of Greensburg, effective July 31. (Continued on page 30)
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