Editor’s note: Our gratitude to the Midwest Province of Jesuits for providing photos and an article.
A childhood member of Nativity of Our Lord, Rhinelander, was ordained a Jesuit priest on Saturday, June 10, at the Church of the Gesu in Milwaukee.
Fr. Aaron Pierre and five other Jesuits were ordained by Bishop Edward C. Malesic, of the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio.
Son of Bill and Diane Pierre, Fr. Pierre was born in 1988 and entered the Society of Jesus on Aug. 25, 2012.
Since then, he has coordinated a summer program for gang-involved youth in Chicago through the Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation; taught ethics to juniors, worked on the campus ministry team and drove a school bus route at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota; ministered to inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, California, through the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative; studied for a semester at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, and volunteered with Jesuit Refugee Service.
Read the rest of this news story on The Superior Catholic Herald (official publication of the Diocese of Superior) website here...