Born of Joseph J. and Loretta T. McLaughlin in the West Oak Lane
section of Philadelphia,
I was baptized at St. Athanasius Church, Philadelphia and
confirmed at Holy Angels Church, Philadelphia. After my 1956 graduation
from Saint John the Baptist High School in the Manayunk section of
Philadelphia, I matriculated at
LaSalle College, Philadelphia, as a Mathematics major.
In September, 1958 I matriculated at Saint Charles Seminary, Overbrook.
And I was ordained a priest by John Cardinal Krol at the Cathedral of
Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, on
May 21, 1966, the same month I received an M.A. in Mathematics from
Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
After a year as assistant pastor of
St Hilary of Poitiers Church, Rydal, PA,
I was appointed professor at
Cardinal O'Hara High School, Springfield, PA.
In June, 1975, I was appointed principal of
Lansdale Catholic High School, Lansdale, PA;
in June, 1981, principal of
Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, Philadelphia, PA;
and in June 1988, principal of
Cardinal O'Hara High School, Springfield, PA.
I was appointed Pastor of
St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Richboro, PA,
in June, 1993, succeeding Rev. William T. McBride, the founding pastor.
I served in the position for 29 years, after which, in June, 2022,
Archbishop Nelson Pérez assigned me to retired priest status,
and named me Pastor Emeritus of St. Vincent de Paul Parish.
In 1968 I began studying, then teaching, computer programming.
In 1982 I began writing the JEN-A-SyS software package,
which was expanded by others and was used for over 30 years for
tuition accounting, grade reporting, attendance, etc. in the
secondary schools of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. My programming
skills are in C, COBOL and
UNIX shell-scripts
and utilities (e.g. awk).
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