The Year of the Priest

Leaven Fall 2009, Volume 18, Number 1
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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