Ordained as a priest of the Redemptorist Order, he worked for 13 years with young people and preaching parish missions. Then, after receiving a doctorate in moral theology from the University of Notre Dame (1992), he spent 16 years as a clinical bioethicist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon and for the Catholic Health Association of Saskatchewan. In 2008 he moved to Toronto as part of the leadership team of the Redemptorists but continued his work in Catholic healthcare ethics at the Centre for Clinical Ethics (St. Joseph’s Health, St. Michael’s Hospital, Providence Health). He has taught and provided workshops at Catholic Colleges, in adult formation programs, for Catholic teachers, and many health care practitioners.
He is passionate about the Gospel call to the ministry of healing, to Catholic and faith-based health care, to palliative/hospice care, and to parish nursing.