Pilgrimage to Italy, Spiritual Director
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July 31, 2017
FATHER JOSEPH FOX O.P.
PILGRIMAGE TO ITALY DIRECTOR
October 18-27, 2017We are delighted to announce our Spiritual Director for this year’s pilgrimage, Fr. Joseph Fox, O.P. Father Fox has led countless Legatus pilgrimages and we are honored to have him guide us this year through the unforgettable sites of Milan and Rome.
Father Joseph Fox, O.P., is Vice-President for Advancement and Professor of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
A member of the Order of Preachers in vows since 1969, Fr. Fox was ordained a priest in 1974. He has a licentiate degree in theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, a licentiate degree in canon law from the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome. Father Fox served in a variety of positions during his 22 years in Rome including that of staff official of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, bureau chief of the personnel office of the Holy See, teaching in the faculties of theology and canon law at the Angelicum, economic administrator of the Convitto San Tommaso and of the Dominican priory at the Angelicum and as the director of pastoral formation at the Pontifical North American College. Since September 2003, he has served as theologian and canonical consultant to Adam Cardinal Maida in Detroit, while teaching on the faculty of Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and as his delegate for special services at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.