The Provincial Council has approved a new assignment for one friar.
Emerson Rodriguez, OFM, has withdrawn from the doctoral program at The Catholic University of America and returned to the HNP mission in Peru as of Feb. 20. He is residing at the friary at Nuestra Senora de Lourdes in Chorillos, Lima, and teaching scripture this semester at the Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazon in Lima.
Aaron (James) Van Patten-Steiger withdrew from the Province’s postulant program, Silver Spring, Md., on March 1.