Msgr Moroney's Blog: SJS Trustee Named to the State Department

26 February 2017

SJS Trustee Named to the State Department

The entire Saint John's Seminary community congratulates the Honorable Brian Hook, a member of the SJS Board of Trustees, who last week was sworn in as senior policy advisor to Secretary of State Tillerson and was named Director of the Office of Policy Planning with the rank of Assistant Secretary of State.

I am deeply grateful to Brian, both for his willingness to remain on our Board of Trustees and for his wise counsel and support throughout the years!

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.