Pittsburgh priest named director of National Pastoral Life Center

Published: 2004-01-22

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Father Eugene F. Lauer, co-director of the Hesburgh Center at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, has been named director of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York. Father Lauer, 68, is a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh who was ordained in 1961. He will succeed Msgr. Philip J. Murnion, founding director of the New York center who died of cancer in August. Frank J. Macchiarola, president of the board of the National Pastoral Life Center, announced the board's choice of Father Lauer Jan. 21. Sacred Heart Sister Catherine M. Patten, a member of the center's staff who has been interim director, told Catholic News Service that the new director was expected to begin work March 15. Father Lauer has a doctorate in historical theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, and did postdoctoral study at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

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