Born in 1938 in Hammond, Indiana. Attended St. Jospeh grade school and Bishop Noll High School. Then entered the seminary of the Holy Cross Fathers at Notre Dame, graduated from that university in 1961. After three years of theological study at Holy Cross College in Washington, DC, left the seminary and earned a Ph. D. in Systematic and Historical Theology at the University of Notre Dame in 1971. Taught theology at Loyola University in New Orleans (1970-1971), St. Louis University (1971-1976), St. Meinrad School of Theology (1976-1981) and created and directed a graduate program in family ministry and adult religious education at Regis University, 1981-2001. Served as a contributing editor to Marriage and Family Living magazine from 1977 until 1992, wrote a regular column for Family Ministry (an edumenical publication), was author and editorial consultand for Benziger Publishing especially for their Family Life Curriculum, served in various committee of the United States bishops in matters related to family life and adult religious education, was a theological consulant to the U. S. Bishops delegation to the World Synod of Bishops on family life, assisted the bishops' committee on marriage and family life for England and Wales, had published various book titles relating to marriage and family life along with over two hundred magazine and journal articles, is currently involved in diaconate formation and continuing education for permanent deacons and lay ecclesial ministers. He also serves as faculty for the graduate family ministry program at Dominican Univerity in River Forest, Il. Current interests are a contemporary theology of marriage and family, family catechesis and spirituality, creating a more diaconal church, ministerial survival, the theology of play and celebration and creating a more incarnational and communal spirituality.