C. John McCloskey
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C. John McCloskey, III is a Catholic priest of Opus Dei. He is the former director of the Catholic Information Center of the Archdiocese of Washington. He worked on Wall Street - Citibank and Merrill Lynch - for some years before becoming a priest, being ordained in 1981 by Roger Cardinal Etchegaray.
He is known for a controversial tenure as an associate chaplain for Princeton University, and for his role in converting a number of influential American public figures to Roman Catholicism, such as Sam Brownback, Robert Novak and Bernard Nathanson.
[edit] Education
- BA (1975) in Economics, Columbia University
- seminary work, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
- Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD), University of Navarra
[edit] Activities
- Advisor, Christendom College
- Advisor, Coming Home Network
- Advisor, Single Catholics
- U.S. representative for the ecclesastical faculty, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
- U.S. representative for the ecclesastical faculty, University of Navarra
