Msgr Moroney's Blog: Boston in Rome

22 September 2017

Boston in Rome

Just received the following picture from Mass this morning in Saint Peter's Basilica from Father Dan Hennessey, Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Boston. From left to right:

Left to Right: Seminarian Chris Boyle, Father Bob Blaney, Father Dan Hennessey Archbishop Patrón Wong, Secretary for the Congregation for Clergy, Father Michael Zimmerman, Father Kevin Leaver and Seminarian Denis Nakkeeran.

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.