Biography of Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
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Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy is a priest of the Eastern Rite (Byzantine-Melkite) of the Catholic Church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. He was ordained on August 9, 1981, in Damascus, Syria, by Patriarch Maximos V. He has served as Spiritual Director and Rector of St. Gregory the Theologian Byzantine Melkite Catholic Seminary and is presently a Retreat Director. Formerly a lawyer and a university educator, he is the founder and the original director of The Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is also co-founder, along with Dorothy Day, Gordon Zahn and others of Pax Christi-USA.
