About Father McCloskey
Father C. John McCloskey, III, STD, now suffering from advanced Alzheimers, is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and most recently was a Research Fellow of the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington DC. From 1985-1990, he was a chaplain at Princeton University. From 1998-2002, he was the Director of the Catholic Information Center for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. He is perhaps best known for guiding into the Church such luminaries as Dr. Bernard Nathanson, Lawrence Kudlow, Robert Novak, Judge Robert Bork, Senator Sam Brownback, Alfred Regnery and General Josiah Bunting.
His articles, reviews, and doctoral thesis on Cardinal Newman have been published in major Catholic and secular periodicals, including Catholic World Report, First Things, L'Osservatore Romano, the Sacred Architecture Journal, the Wall Street Journal, National Catholic Register, the Washington Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Chronicles, and ACEPRENSA.
Father John has done extensive work in radio and television, most notably at EWTN, where he has hosted series on topics such as Cardinal Newman, Catholic authors, Ecclesial Movements, the Role of the Laity in the Church, Thomas More, and the history of the Church, and has worked as a commentator on Papal trips. Father McCloskey has also appeared as a commentator on network television, satellite and cable channels, such as CNN, CNBC, and Fox News.
He is co-author (with Russell Shaw) of Good News, Bad News: Evangelization, Conversion, and the Crisis of Faith, published in March, 2007 that is now available from Ignatius Press. He is also the co-editor of "The Essential Belloc" now available from St. Benedict's Press, and contributed a principal essay to the Cardinal Newman Society's "How to Choose a Catholic College" available from TheNewmanGuide.com.
A native of Washington, D.C., he received a degree in Economics from Columbia University in 1975. After working professionally on Wall Street for six years, he studied in Rome and Spain, where he received his doctorate in Theology with a specialty in Church History. Ordained in Spain in 1981, he has spent much of his pastoral work counseling university students and fellow priests, offering spiritual direction and preaching retreats.
He had served as an advisor to Christendom College, the Mary Foundation, the Cardinal Newman Society, and Ave Maria Single Catholics Online. He was the U.S. representative for the ecclesiastical faculties of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the University of Navarre in Pamplona Spain from 1984-2003. Father McCloskey was an avid squash player and a member of the U.S. Squash Racquets Association.
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