GEORGE WILLIAM RUTLER

ABOUT FATHER RUTLER

Pastor

He was born in 1945 and reared in the Episcopal tradition in New Jersey and New York. After becoming the youngest Episcopal rector in the country when he headed the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, he obtained several degrees from numerous universities, including the Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology.

he has made documentary films in the United States and England, contributed to scholarly journals, and has published over 30 books on theology, history, cultural issues and the lives of the saints.

ROLES IN THE CHURCH

Selected Roles

PASTOR OF ST. MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL CHURCH

He was appointed by Cardinal Dolan.

PREACHER

He became a preacher for the students, faculty, and townspeople of Oxford. In 1988, he was awarded the degree Master of Studies from the University of Oxford.

ORDAINED TO THE PRIESTHOOD

He was ordained in New York at St. Patrick's Cathedral by my Eminence Terence Cardinal Cooke.

ORDAINED TO THE DIACONATE

He was ordained by my Eminence William Cardinal Baum in Rome.

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Learning and Living

GREGORIAN & ANGELICUM UNIVERSITIES

Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology

DARTMOUTH

Rufus Choate Scholar

“only the Holy Spirit permits us to become aware of the gravity of sin and of the tragedy of the loss of the sense of God, and gives the desire for conversion. But our love for mankind cannot be resigned to seeing them deprive themselves of salvation. We cannot directly produce the conversion of souls, but we are responsible for the proclamation of the Faith, of the totality of the Faith and of its demands.”
― Fr. George Rutler, The Cure d'Ars Today: St. John Vianney