Fr. Rick Walsh, CSP

Associate Director

Born in Gloucester, MA on July 7, 1961 Rick is the youngest of seven children. Raised on the South Shore, Rick excelled in nothing particular. He was the editor of the Weymouth South High School yearbook and somehow managed to play on the varsity tennis team. Always aspiring to be a mediator of sorts, Rick served as a baseball umpire for the Weymouth Farm League. In his first job, Rick sold major appliances at (now defunct) Caldor Dept. store. He did so without any knowledge of how a single appliance actually worked. After barely cutting the grade for four years at St. John’s Seminary (2 in the college, two in the graduate school), Rick left before he was kicked out and found a job at the State House. While attending daily Mass at the Paulist Center, he rediscovered his priestly vocation. In a class of his own, he was ordained at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York City on May 9, 1992. He has served with mild distinction at Paulist parishes in Austin TX, Knoxville TN, New York NY, and Toronto, ON. His four years as a missionary stationed in Portland OR proved to be simultaneously his most rewarding and most difficult assignment. A lover of travel at the time, Rick was able to share the gospel in many western states including Alaska and Hawai’i. He is a citizen of Ireland as well as the US, and was once a co-owner of a Kentucky thoroughbred race horse.