Fr. Bill graduated from St. Mark Grammar School in Dorchester and attended
Cathedral High School in the South End of Boston graduating in 1951.
After two years at Boston College, he entered the New England Province
of the Jesuits in August of 1953 and two years later pronounced his
first vows.  Following a year of studies in the Humanities and three
years of Philosophy Studies, with an MA in Philosophy, Fr. Bill was assigned
for three years to teach Latin, Greek, English and Religion to sophomores at
Boston College High School.

Fr. Bill began Theology Studies in 1962, the same year that the Second Vatican
Council began.  He was ordained a priest at the end of his third year of
Theology on June 12, 1965.  He completed his Theology Studies in June,
1966 and after a year of Tertianship (a year given to Studies in Spirituality)
in Pomphet,CT, he was again assigned to  B. C. High to teach  Religious
Education.  Besides teaching, Fr. Bill was also a Guidance Counselor and
Director of Athletics.  In 1982, his provincial assigned Fr. Bill to Bishop
Connolly High School, a co-ed diocesan high school run by the Jesuits in
Fall River, MA.  He spent seven years at Bishop Connolly as Director
of Guidance and Counseling.  From 1989 – 1990, Fr. Bill was on sabbatical
and during the first semester he attended the Maryknoll School of Theology
in NY and during the second semester participated in a Three Month Spirituality
Program at St. Bueno’s Retreat Center run by the Jesuit English Province,
in North Wales. On his return, Fr. Bill became involved in Nativity Prep,
a middle school for inner-city minority boys, and for two years, was
Director of Admissions, a Guidance Counselor and a teacher.

In 1992, Fr. Bill began the second half of his Jesuit life as a 
Chaplain and ministered in various hospitals and nursing facilities
including Youville Rehab Hospital in Cambridge, Boston Medical Center,
Tufts Medical Center, Boston Mercy Hospital,  Portland Maine and Jeanne
Jugan Nursing Facility, Cambridge as well as Mount Auburn Hospital.
Fr. Bill has also done pastoral ministry in the Bahamas, Jamaica and
Norwich, CT. He spent six months in Bolivia studying Spanish and eight
months in Quito, Ecuador. During three summers, he taught English in
Vietnam to Jesuits and diocesan seminarians and young sisters. He also
worked with refugees in Liberia, West Africa.

In August of 2014, Saints Mary and Joseph Parish was blessed to welcome
Fr. Bill to our parish.