By Father Bob Pagliari, C.Ss.R Even when he was just a seventeen- year-old youth, William Smith demonstrated an extraordinary carriage of confidence and, as he himself admits, expressed his first declaration of freedom: “I went to see Father Raymond Schantz and said, ‘I have decided to become a brother.’ I was accepted for the next entrance class but never told my parents until a week before I was to leave for Ephrata, Pa.
Father David Verghese, C.Ss.R., is the fifth Redemptorist priest to be ordained for the Baltimore Province in 2014. He was ordained Saturday, May 31, by Archbishop Emeritus Edward J. Gilbert, also a Redemptorist, at St. John Neumann Church in Annapolis, Maryland.
Father David Verghese, C.Ss.R., is the fifth Redemptorist priest to be ordained for the Baltimore Province in 2014. He was ordained on Saturday, May 31, by Archbishop Emeritus Edward J. Gilbert, also a Redemptorist, at St. John Neumann Church in Annapolis, Maryland.