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Pastoral Staff - Priests ~ |
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Father Joe Rankin ~ Pastor
Email:
frjoe@saintrita. |
Father Joe Rankin
is from Louisville and grew up in the west
and
south ends of the city having attended grade school at
St. Thomas
More, Sacred Heart, St. John Vianny, and later at
St. Mary in
Lanesville, Indiana. He went to high school
seminary with the Comboni
Missionaries,
later going to college
at Xavier University in Ohio and completing
his
theological
training in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood in
1979.
After ordination he supervised high school seminarians for
four
years
and then was assigned to the foreign missions in
Esmeradlas,
Ecuador.
While there, he was pastor of a parish
and director of seminarian
formation
and youth ministry. From
there he was transferred to Kitchener,
Ontario
where he did
mission and vocation promotion. Since Father Joe’s return to
Louisville in 1990 he has been
the associate pastor at St.
Athanasius, pastor at St. Monica and then St. Francis
of Assisi.
He was assigned to St. Rita on June 22, 2005. |
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Father Tom Smith ~
Spanish Ministry
Email:
spanishministry@juno.com |
Father Tom Smith
is a Conventual Franciscan, ordained as a
priest in
1979.
He is second oldest of ten children, with this
parents still living
on the
family
farm outside New Albany,
Indiana. Father Tom went to
Mt. St. Francis
Seminary
in southern Indiana, studied psychology at
the University of St. Thomas in
St. Paul,
Minnesota, and received a
Master of Divinity degree from Washington
Theological
Union in
Washington, D.C. After ordination he served as associate at Our
Lady
of
Consolation
parish in Valley Station, KY, then another parish in
Chicago,
before
becoming a pastor in Lorain, Ohio for 5 1/2 years.
He returned to Mt. St.
Francis
as the guardian of the friary and
Province Treasurer for six years, and
then was
part of a retreat
team
in Prior Lake, Minnesota. Father Tom enjoys music,
pottery,
camping,
and reading. His right leg was amputated as a result of
an
accident
when he was 2 years old, but he continues to remain active in many
ways.
In
2000 he studied Spanish in Costa Rica for three months,
and then in
January 2001
began ministry with the Spanish speaking
people, half time at St. Rita and
half
time in the New Albany Deanery in Indiana. It is good to be part of the
life
here
at St. Rita and to welcome
the integration of the Hispanic community in
the parish.
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Louisville, KY 40219 
