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THE
PEOPLE OF MANRESA
Associates,
Support Staff, Board
Jesuit
Staff
 Fr.
Walt Farrell, SJ, is a Cleveland native,
who entered the Jesuits in 1934. He did his graduate studies
in psychology and philosophy at Loyola, Chicago and the Gregorian
University in Rome. He has taught philosophy and theology
at University of Detroit Mercy and the Chicago Province Major
Seminary, was Provincial Superior of the Detroit Province,
National Assistant for Jesuit Formation, a Founder of the
Romero Center for Spirituality and Justice, and Consultant
to the Detroit Provincial in the areas of Ignatian Values
in Ministry. Walt joined our staff after completing his service
as Treasurer of the Detroit Province. E-mail |
 Fr.
Leo Cachat, SJ, was assigned to the Jesuit Province
of Patna, India and began teaching in Nepal in 1961. He was
ordained in 1966 and became principal of a K-12 school in
Katmandu. He later studied with Fr. Anthony De Mello, SJ,
and Bede Griffiths, OSB. In 1978 he founded Godavari Ashram
(center for spiritual development), and directed retreats
there and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. In 1985 he set up a
Jesuit formation house in Nepal and later became the regional
superior. After several years in Myanmar, he returned to the
USA and established the office of chaplain to the faculty
and staff at University of Detroit High School. E-mail |
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 Fr.
Peter Fennessy, SJ, comes from Boston, but is now
a member of the Detroit Jesuit Province. After missionary
work in Jamaica, theological studies at Oxford University,
and 26 years at John Carroll University in Cleveland as
campus minister, vice president, and rector of the Jesuit
community, he is now superior of the Jesuits here at Manresa.
Among other responsibilities he is Coordinator of Directed
Retreats. E-mail
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 Fr.
Gregory Hyde, SJ, Director
of Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, a
native of Detroit, entered the Society of Jesus in 1990.
He has degrees in German, Communications and Theology from
Wayne State, Indiana University Bloomington, Michigan State
Lansing, and Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California.
Between 1975 and 1994 he taught extensively in Taiwan, Beijing,
Malaysia and Nepal. He had been doing Retreat and Pastoral
Ministry in Detroit from 2003 and worked with us at Manresa
from the summer of 2004 to the beginning of 2005. Since
then he has worked at our retreat house in Hong Kong. After
finishing a three year commitment there, he became available
to be elected by our Board in June 2008 as Director of Manresa
Jesuit Retreat House. E-mail |
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 Fr.
Bernard Owens, SJ, was ordained in 1972, earned his
doctorate in Christian Spirituality at the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, CA in 1983, taught at the University
of Detroit Mercy from 1981 to 1994. Coming to Manresa in
1994, he has been Director of the two-year Internship
in Ignatian Spirituality, has led an annual seminar
in Christian Spiritual Classics, and guided retreatants
through the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola. E-mail
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 Fr.
Thomas Ryan, SJ, a Jesuit priest and the newest member
of the staff at Manresa Jesuit Retreat House. Fr. Tom Ryan
has been a teacher of theology and Scripture and a campus
minister and counselor in Jesuit High Schools and at Regis
University in Denver. He comes to his new ministry in retreats
at Manresa with fresh ideas and enthusiasm. E-mail
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