Biography

 

Father Roger J. Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, serves as Catholic Chaplain to Columbia University in New York City and to the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life. He is also Ecclesiastical Assistant to Aid to the Church in Need USA, a Papal Missionary of Mercy, Chaplain to the New York Chapter of the Leonine Forum, a Member of the Board of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Martyrs in Auriesville, New York, and a National Eucharistic Preacher for the USCCB’s National Eucharistic Revival. He will help lead the Seton Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage from New Haven, CT, to Indianapolis from May through July 2024 in preparation for the first National Eucharistic Congress since 1941.

A graduate of Harvard College (1992) and the Pontifical North American College in Rome (1999), he served as Attaché to the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York (2015-2022), and has been a pastor, newspaper editor and high school chaplain in the Diocese of Fall River. He writes for many publications, appears regularly on television and radio, and is the author of Plan of Life: Habits to Help You Grow Closer to God (Pauline Books and Media 2018). His homilies, articles, retreats, conferences, educational videos and other offerings are available for free at catholicpreaching.com.

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