• Born 1948 Brooklyn New York
• Entered Capuchin/Franciscan 1966
• Solemn Profession 1972
• Ordained to Priesthood 1986 by Bishop Rodimer
• Education:
  • Immaculate Conception Seminary, South Orange
  • Bachelors Degree in Philosophy Don Bosco Seminary 1983
  • M.Div. Seton Hill University
• Pastor, St. Ann, Hoboken, 1988-1990
• Parochial Vicar St. Peter the Apostle, Parsippany 1991-1999
• Pastor, St. Joseph, Newton 1999-2010
• Pastor, St. Catherine, 2010-present

• Grew up in the northeast Bronx, near Fordham University.
• Held various corporate jobs: Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Blue Cross.
• Became a priest in 2001.
• Studied at St Johns and Catholic University.
• Taught at Rutgers University.
• Worked as assistant at:
  • Our Lady of the Lake in Sparta.
  • Saint Marks in Long Valley

Barbara has been in catechetical ministry since 1975 and the Director of Religious Education at Saint Catherine of Siena since 1990. She has an undergraduate degree in Education from Georgian Court College and a Masters Degree in Theology from the College of Saint Elizabeth. Barbara is past president of the Catechetical Leaders Association of the Paterson Diocese and is currently on the Executive Board as Member at Large. She is also a member of Bishop Serratelli’s Diocesan Commission for Evangelization and Catechesis.

Barbara resides in Boonton Township and has been married to Jeffrey Buck for almost forty years. They have three children – Jeffrey, and his wife Michele, Christine Green, and Michael, and his wife Leah. They are also blessed with two wonderful grandsons, Jake and Ryan Buck, and a beautiful granddaughter, Madison Green.

Kathie has been a church musician and accompanist in the Morris County area for over 22 years. She was previously organist at St. Michael's Church (Netcong, NJ), Associate Director of Music and organist at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (Boonton, NJ) and has been at St. Catherine's, her home parish, since 2006.

She obtained undergraduate degrees in Music and Education, and a graduate degree in French. Kathie has taught music in public and parochial schools and on the Junior College level. She is a participating member of the Metropolitan Guild Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

Kathie lives in Denville with her husband John. Their family includes daughter Susan, her husband John, grandhildren Charlie and Maggie, son John and his wife Valarie, and daughter Patty.

Chris has been singing ever since the fourth grade, when he was a boy soprano in the choir at St. Catherine of Siena parish in Norwood, MA. He has sung ever since then, most notably in the Chorale at the University of Notre Dame, and as a member of the Dallas Symphony Chorus for eight years, where he met his lovely bride. Chris has been privileged to sing under the batons of such notable conductors as Andrew Litton, Richard Hickox, Claus Peter Flor, Andrew McGill and Zubin Mehta.

His lifelong love of choral singing led him to happily accept the position of Director of Music here at St. Catherine’s in December of 2005. Since that time, he has encouraged young singers in the children’s choir to embrace the rich tradition of Catholic choral singing. He has also instituted the new tradition of sacred choral concerts here at the parish. In his spare time, he is working to complete his Master’s degree in Theology with a concentration in Biblical Studies at Seton Hall University.

Kay has been secretary at St. Catherine of Siena Parish since July 1997, after retiring from GPU Nuclear in Parsippany.  She lives in Parsippany and is a member of St. Peter the Apostle Church.  Over the years she has been active in the Youth Ministry, the Rosary Altar Society, Good Samaritans, and cooking and feeding the homeless at Fr. English Center in Paterson.  She enjoys traveling, reading, spending time with friends.  She has two children, Mark and Michelle and two grandchildren, Rebecca and Patrick.