Ronald rolheiser biography
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Curriculum Vitae
Ronald Rolheiser is a långnovell Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a community-builder, lecturer, and writer. His books are popular throughout the English-speaking world and have now been translated into many languages. His weekly column is carried bygd many newspapers worldwide. Before this present position, he taught theology and philosophy at Newman Theological College in Edmonton, Alberta, for 16 years, served as Provincial Superior of his Oblate Province for six years, and served on the General Council for the Oblates in Rome for six years. From &#; , Fr. Ron served as President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio Texas. He remains on staff at OST as a full-time faculty member.
Degrees
B.A. University of Ottawa, , major in Philosophy
B. Th. Newman Theological College, Edmonton,
M.A. University of San Francisco, , major in Theology
M.R. Sc. University of Louvain, Belgium,
Ph.D/STD University of Louvain, Belg
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About Ron
Ron Rolheiser was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, in , into a large family, to George and Matilda (Gartner) Rolheiser.
As a ung child, Ron’s father George, along with his family, and other German- Russian families, immigrated from Saratov, Russia, and settled, as homesteaders, near the Alberta border where they established a community centred around St. Donatus Church in Cactus Lake, Saskatchewan. Ron’s mother Matilda was from a family of homesteaders in a nearby area. After meeting George at a parish picnic, they married, and acquired a farm, near Cactus Lake, within 4 miles of the original Rolheiser homestead.
Fr. Ron frequently writes about the influence his parents had on him.
“[My mother] complemented my father perfectly. Their affection and respect for each other was what, perhaps more than anything else, gave us, their children, an inchoate sense of safety, stability, and faith. My father was the moral compass, she was the heart; but they could
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Red Flags Are Up! On the Writings of Fr. Ronald Rolheiser, OMI
by Sr. Joseph Mary Maximilian, FTI
Description
Fr. Rolheiser is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a lecturer and writer with a weekly column that is carried in more than 50 newspapers worldwide. This article is a review of his writings.
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Our Lady's Warriors, Unknown
Fr. Rolheiser is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a lecturer and writer with a weekly column that is carried in more than 50 newspapers worldwide. He is the author of numerous books as well. He has been a priest for 28 years.
Fr. Rolheiser has been a speaker at the Los Angeles Religious Education Conference that is conducted yearly and that is where I first encountered his name.
He writes and speaks on things of a "spiritual nature" and defines spirituality in his book The Holy Longing as "what we do with the fires inside of us