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b"International priests have served the Roman Catholic Church in the United States since its inception. With congregations consisting largely of immigrants or Spanish and French speaking Catholics absorbed by the expansion of US territory, it was only natural that the clergy reflected the remarkable mixture of ethnicities in the Church. New communities lacked the \\u2018home-grown\\u2019 vocations of more established communities, and the nascent Church needed to recruit or welcome priests and religious from other countries and cultures. Each missionary priest and seminarian (and missionary religious sister and nun) brings with him (or her) graces and challenges for the receiving community and for himself (for more on this, see the Guidelines for Receiving Pastoral Ministers in the United States, 3rd Edition, 2014). This presentation is part of the Intercultural Competencies work in which Holy Apostles has been involved this academic year. (Recorded and Aired on Friday, January 19, 2018.)

\\u200bDr. Mahfood earned his PhD in Literature at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO, and served as the Associate Director of the Parresia Project, now hosted out of the Sacred Heart Institute in Huntington, NY. He and the project's director, Msgr. Richard Henning, are releasing a book on this subject entitled Missionary Priests in the Homeland: Our Call to Receive, which will be available through En Route Books and Media in early February, 2018. He is Vice-President of External Affairs and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He is the founder and CEO of En Route Books and Media and WCAT Radio."