New leadership appointed at Ohio State’s Catholic Newman Center

The Saint Thomas Extra Newman Heart at Ohio State is beneath new management, in line with a June 30 press launch from the Diocese of Columbus, and adjustments are already being made throughout the church.

Adam Streitenberger, Diocesan Director of Evangelization, was named the brand new government director on the Newman Heart — the off-campus Catholic church at Ohio State — efficient July 12, in line with the discharge.

This “thrilling and renewed” imaginative and prescient for the Heart marks many adjustments, in line with the press launch, with the primary being the elimination of the Paulist Fathers — a New York-based unbiased order of Monks who’ve run the Newman Heart for 66 years — because the leaders of the church, in line with the discharge.

“The Diocese is deeply grateful for the service of the Paulist Fathers at The Ohio State College,” the Diocese’s assertion mentioned. “The Paulist Fathers have been invited to proceed their ministry as chaplains on the middle.”

Bishop Earl Fernandes of the Diocese of Columbus, ordained and put in Could 31, appointed Streitenberger. 

In keeping with the discharge, “the imaginative and prescient for the Newman Heart can be intentional in its deal with the OSU college students.” 

Fernandes was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Columbus April 2, 2022, in line with The Columbus Dispatch. This places Fernandes in command of the Catholic church buildings in Columbus and permits him to make management adjustments. 

In response to this transformation, the Paulist Fathers launched their very own assertion June 30 explaining that the abrupt change was as a result of a choice by Fernandes who wished to nominate a priest of the diocese as director of the Heart. Fernandes was not prepared to discover a compromise that might enable the Paulist Fathers to stay with the Heart, in line with the assertion.

“We depart this very important campus ministry with nice disappointment,” René Constanza, president of the Paulist Fathers, mentioned within the assertion.

The Newman Heart couldn’t be reached for remark by the point of publication.