Rev. Joshua J. Whitfield

Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield is the Pastoral Administrator serving St. Rita. A former Anglican minister, he was ordained a Catholic priest through the Pastoral Provision of Pope John Paul II in 2012. Before he became Catholic, he went to seminary in England at the College of the Resurrection. He holds degrees in theology from the University of Leeds and also Duke University. He is also the author of The Crisis of Bad Preaching: Redeeming the Heart and Way of the Catholic Preacher (Ave Maria Press, 2019), Eucharist: Bread of Life (Little Rock Scripture Study, 2021), and  Pilgrim Holiness: Martyrdom as Descriptive Witness (Cascade, 2009).