Fr. Peter Walsh

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  Rev. Peter Walsh joined Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Community after spending five years in campus ministry at Saint Thomas More, the Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale University.

While at Yale, Father Walsh worked with graduate students, developing social and spiritual programs that connected Catholic graduate students with each other and with the intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church.

"Theology on Tap" was one particularly successful program that brought graduate students together to share theology and libations at the graduate student level.

Father Walsh also worked with undergraduate student-athletes, called Cathletes, that explored the spirituality of the student athlete. In addition, Father Walsh led alternative spring break trips to Biloxi, Miss., where students worked with disaster relief following Hurricane Katrina and to Lima, Peru.

With his background in campus ministry, Father Walsh will work with programs for young adult Catholics as part of his responsibilities as associate pastor at St. John The Evangelist Church.

Father Walsh was born in Boston and remains a faithful Boston Red Sox baseball fan. After graduating from Stonehill College in Massachusetts, he entered the Congregation of Holy Cross and was ordained a priest in 1989. He attended seminary at the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated with a Master's of Divinity degree and a passion for Notre Dame football. He also has a master’s degree from Boston College in English literature with a concentration in Irish poetry and often brings insights from literature into his preaching.

Father Walsh enjoys hiking, reading, independent films and all kinds of music.