Msgr Moroney's Blog: Debbie and Jimmy

04 March 2018

Debbie and Jimmy

One of the great joys of this pilgrimage is that I am joined by my sister, Debbie Galanos! Since our family tree is almost all Irish, it is such great fun to see the Moroneys, O'Learys, Maloneys, Sheahans, Loughlins and Sweeneys in the face of every passerby! This blessed isle gave our progenitors birth and it is such a grace to return and breathe the air!

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.