Msgr Moroney's Blog: New men in Rome...

16 July 2013

New men in Rome...

Word from Rome is that Kevin Leaver and Michael Zimmerman are enjoying the first days of their orientation at North American College, thanks to the solicitude of their arch-diocesan brother, Kevin Staley-Joyce. Here, they pose in front of their new parish church!

Monsignor James P. Moroney, a priest of the Diocese of Worcester for forty four years, is Pastor of Saint Cecilia Parish in Leominster. He served for many years as Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Divine Worship in Washington D.C., as Rector of Saint John's Seminary in Boston, and as Pastor of Mary Queen of the Rosary Parish in Spencer and as Rector of Saint Paul's Cathedral in Worcester. Pope Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict both appointed him as a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in Rome and as Executive Director of the Vox Clara Committee. He is author of THE MASS EXPLAINED (Catholic Book Publishing) which is being published in its third edition this Spring.