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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On July 23, 2024 Cardinal Luis Antonio G.Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization (Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches), appointed Father Roger J. Landry National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States for a five-year term.
Father Landry, 54, of the diocese of Fall River (Massachusetts), was ordained a priest on June 26, 1999. He is currently a chaplain at Columbia University in New York City and at the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life. He is also spiritual director of Aid to the Church in Need USA and was appointed Permanent Missionary of Mercy by Pope Francis after the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy in 2015.
Among other things, he is chaplain of the New York chapter of the Leonine Forum, council member of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Martyrs in Auriesville (New York), and Eucharistic preacher for the National Eucharistic Revival of the United States Conference of Bishops.
He recently accompanied the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton National Eucharistic Pilgrimage as chaplain in preparation for the 10th National Eucharistic Congress (July 17-21, 2024, Indianapolis).
He is a graduate of Harvard College (1992) and was a student at the Pontifical North American College in Rome (1999). He was ssigned to the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in New York (2015-2022), parish priest, high school chaplain in the Diocese of Fall River, and managing editor of a diocesan newspaper. He writes for several websites and blogs and is the author of “Plan of Life: Habits to Help You Grow Closer to God” (Pauline Books and Media 2018). (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 5/9/2024)
