Catholic Information Center

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History

Begun in 1957 by two Redemptorist priests, at the invitation of Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, the Catholic Information Center began as a “street parish.” In 1991, when the Redemptorists could no longer continue to staff the Catholic Information Center, Cardinal Hickey arranged for the Archdiocese to incorporate CIC into their work and asked for Opus Dei to oversee the operations of the Catholic Information Center.About the Catholic Information Center

Today, the Catholic Information Center still offers Mass as it did almost 50 years ago. No longer a library but a full fledged bookstore, the Catholic Information Center remains the “street parish” of downtown Washington, DC serving nearly 1,000 individuals each week through Holy Mass, Confession, spiritual direction, lectures, discussion groups and special events. It is now located on K Street three blocks north of the White House.

Education & Formation

The Center's facilities are made available for a wide variety of activities. In accordance with our mission to contribute to the "new evangelization" in the United States , and to promote a deeper knowledge of the Catholic Faith, the Catholic Information Center makes its facilities available for the following purposes.

• doctrinal classes • public lectures on matters concerning faith and morals • convert instruction individually or in groups • the sacraments of initiation and full communion in the Catholic Church

The Current Director

Fr. William H. Stetson, a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and ordained in 1962, was appointed Director of the Catholic Information Center by His Eminence, Theodore Cardinal McCarrick in May 2004 after serving for several months as acting director. He succeeds Fr. C. John McCloskey who had been director since 1998. The operation of the Center has been entrusted to priests of the Prelature of Opus Dei since 1993.

Fr. Stetson is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he earned a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. He taught for several years on the faculty of Canon Law at the Opus Dei run Universidad de Navarra, where he also was involved in establishing the School of Liberal Art . For seventeen years, Fr. Stetson was the vicar of Opus Dei in Chicago, during which time priests of Prelature of Opus Dei were entrusted with operating a parish of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and renovating one of its largest church buildings. Since 1983 he has also served as consultant and later secretary to Archbishop John J. Myers, the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for the Pastoral Provision for former Episcopal priests, by means of which over seventy men have been ordained for service in the Roman Catholic Church. The Assistant Director of the Catholic Information Center is Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopal priest who converted to Catholicism in 2006.About the Catholic Information Center

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