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Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P.
Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP was raised in Phoenix, AZ where he attended Brophy College Preparatory. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a double major in English and Philosophy. From there, he went to law school at the University of Chicago, where he obtained his Juris Doctor. Upon graduation, he worked for three years in the Corporate and Securities practice of Sidley & Austin, a large international law firm based in Chicago. Upon reflection and discernment, he left the practice of law to enter religious life. He entered the novitiate for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2002, where he took the religious name "Pius", after Pope St. Pius V, one of the four Popes who were first Dominicans. As part of his initial formation, Fr. Pius studied for the License in Sacred Theology. His thesis was on St. Thomas Aquinas's account of Knowledge and Love in understanding the persons of the Trinity. Fr. Pius was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 2008 and served at the parish of St. Thomas Aquinas in Zanesville, OH. In 2010, Fr. Pius was appointed by President Barack Obama to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation that promotes equal access to justice and provides grants for high-quality civil legal assistance to low-income Americans. Fr. Pius is currently in studies pursuing a degree in Canon Law at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum).
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Archbishop DiNoia to Preach at Catholic University of America
Posted by Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, O.P. on December 21, 2010
Archbishop J. Augustine DiNoia, O.P.
The Catholic University of America recently made the following announcement:
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, O.P., the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, will travel from the Vatican to deliver a homily at Catholic University at the Mass in honor of Catholic University's patron St. Thomas Aquinas at 12:10 p.m. on Jan. 27, 2011, in the Crypt Church of the Basilica of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Archbishop Di Noia, is an American Dominican theologian who was ordained to the episcopacy on July 11, 2009, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Previously, he was the under-secretary at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, serving under Prefect Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. Before that, he was the director of the Intercultural Forum for Studies in Faith and Culture at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, and executive director of the secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Archbishop Di Noia earned a doctorate in theology from Yale University in 1980 and a licentiate in theology from the Pontifical Faculty at the Dominican House of Studies in 1971. He was awarded the degree of Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) by the Dominican Order in 1998. Archbishop Di Noia is the author of The Diversity of Religions: A Christian Perspective (The Catholic University of America Press, 1992) and the co-author of The Love That Never Ends: A Key to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (Our Sunday Visitor Press, 1996). He taught systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies for 20 years and was an adjunct professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Studies.