Fr. Joshua Whitfield

A former Episcopal priest, Fr. Joshua trained for ministry in England at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield, England. After serving in the Episcopal Church for several years, he and his wife, Alli, converted to Catholicism in 2009. He served St. Rita Catholic Community as it’s director of faith formation. and was ordained a Catholic priest through the Pastoral Provision of Pope Saint John Paul II in 2012. Since then he has served at St. Rita as parochial vicar and now pastor.

Originally from Glen Rose, Texas—the son of a football coach—he’s an alum of Texas Tech, the University of Leeds, and Duke University. He is the author of Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness (Cascade, 2009), The Crisis of Bad Preaching: Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher (Ave Maria Press, 2019) and Eucharist, Bread of Life (Liturgical Press, 2020). Fr. Joshua also writes regularly for Our Sunday Visitor, America Magazine, and Church Life Journal of Notre Dame. He is also a regular contributor to the Dallas Morning News, his columns appearing in newspapers all over the world.