Fr Bill Dailey CSC
Photo:holycross.nd.edu/ The current rector of the Notre-Dame Centre for Faith and Reason in Dublin will be returning to the US, it has been announced, with his replacement “excited” to begin this summer.
Fr Bill Dailey CSC, who headed the famous University Church founded by St John Henry at Stephen’s Green, will return to the US to work on a book about Faith and reason – partially inspired by his work in Dublin – while beginning a new pastoral assignment.
The current director of residence life for recruitment, hiring and retention at the University of Notre Dame, Fr Gary Chamberland CSC has been named the new director.
Ordained a Holy Cross priest in 1998, Fr Chamberland holds a license in canon law from the Catholic University of America. His leadership experience includes oversight of Notre Dame’s residence hall rectors and service as the pastoral resident for Morrissey Hall.
Fr Chamberland said: “I am excited to minister in the Archdiocese of Dublin and look forward to serving at St. John Newman’s home church in Ireland. I hope that I can help people, especially young adults, deepen a sense of the sacred in their lives and encounter a Church with important and meaningful things to say about the pressing issues of our day.”