CHARLOTTE — Bishop Michael Martin, OFM Conv., announces the appointment of Jesuit Father Mark P. Scalese as parochial vicar at St. Peter Parish effective Sept. 1.
A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Father Scalese entered the Jesuits in 1987 and was ordained in 1997.
He has been an educator for much of his professional career, coming to Charlotte from Chicago, where he was Jesuit Superior of the First Studies Program at Loyola University for six years.
Previously, Father Scalese was the Director of Campus Ministry at Fairfield University in Connecticut as well as an associate professor in its Film, Television & Media Arts program.
He earned his Master of Fine Arts from Temple University and worked as a television producer for Frank Frost Productions in Washington, D.C., where he contributed to documentaries about Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago and St. Thérèse of Lisieux that were broadcast on public television stations across the country.
His own documentary “Robot Man” screened in numerous film festivals, and his documentary “Greetings from Havre de Grace” won a CINE Golden Eagle Award and was broadcast on Maryland Public Television.
— Catholic News Herald