William H. Stetson

William H. Stetson is a Roman Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and ordained in 1962. He is assigned to Holy Cross Chapel in Houston, TX.

Stetson was appointed Director of the Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC, by Theodore Cardinal McCarrick in May 2004 after serving for several months as acting director. He succeeded C. John McCloskey who had been director since 1998. The operation of the Center has been entrusted to priests of the Prelature of Opus Dei since 1993. In fall of 2007, Stetson left as head of the Catholic Information Center. It is now under the direction of Arne A. Panula, S.T.D.

Stetson is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, during which time he became a numerary of the Prelature of Opus Dei. He latered earned a doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He taught for several years on the faculty of Canon Law at the Opus Dei run Universidad de Navarra, where he also was involved in establishing the School of Liberal Art . For seventeen years, Stetson was the vicar of Opus Dei in Chicago , during which time priests of Prelature of Opus Dei were entrusted with operating a parish of the Archdiocese of Chicago, and renovating one of its largest church buildings. Since 1983 he has also served as consultant and later secretary to the Ecclesiastical Delegate of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for the Pastoral Provision [http://www.pastoralprovision.org/] for former Episcopal priests, by means of which over seventy men have been ordained for service in the Roman Catholic Church. His assistant director at the Catholic Information Center was Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopal priest who converted to Catholicism in 2006.

References

* [http://www.cicdc.org/ Catholic Information Center, Washington, D.C.]
* [http://web.mac.com/cicdc/iWeb/KStreet/CICpod/CICpod.html CICpod - Podcasts from the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C.]
* [http://www.crisismagazine.com/june2005/guest.htm Crisis Magazine: The Shape of a Pontificate, by Rev. William H. Stetson] Discusses newly-elected Pope Benedict XVI.
* [http://www.pastoralprovision.org/ Pastoral Provision]
* [http://www.holycrosschapel.org/]
* [http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2007/10/monsignor-william-stetson.html]