Ministry Staff

Fr. Fran Daly, SJ, grew up in Chicago and entered the Society of Jesus at Milford, Ohio in 1959. He taught Latin and History at St. Xavier High School from 1966-69 and worked with the Sodality and Xavier’s Summer Enrichment Program mostly for African-American students. In June, 1972, after his theological studies in Chicago he was ordained and was missioned to the Jesuit novitiate in Berkley, Michigan as minister of the community. He worked closely with Frs. Howard Gray and Frank Houdek studying and directing the Spiritual Exercises, and also teaching Jesuit History. He served as Novice Director from 1977-1983 and during that time directed the 30-day Spiritual Exercise two or three times a year. He returned to Chicago in 1984 as rector of his alma mater, St. Ignatius College Prep, teaching Religious Studies to Juniors and doing Adult Faith Development with the faculty and staff. In 1990, he became Formation Director for the Chicago Province and in 1991 executive director to the Provincial. During those years he traveled around the United States and Europe visiting Jesuits in formation. In 1997, the Jesuit province began to sponsor an Ignatian Pilgrimage to Spain and Rome every other year for high school faculties and staff, and Fran was the docent for the first three trips which deepened his appreciation of the Ignatian heritage. From 1988-1991 and 2000-2011, he served as Tertian Director for the Chicago Province Two Summer Program in which he worked with Jesuits from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the United States. In 1998, he returned to Cincinnati and served at St. Xavier High School as rector until August of 2005. In 2000, he became Director of Ignatian Formation for the Adult Community at St. Xavier High School, where he worked with Adult Faith programs and introduced new teachers for their first five years to the person and vision of St. Ignatius. In the summer of 2014, he became the Executive Director of Manresa Jesuit Retreat House.

Fr. Robert Flack, SJ, was born in 1948 in Chicago. He attended the seminary system in the Chicago Archdiocese and was ordained at Mundelein Seminary in 1974, serving at several parishes of the Archdiocese before entering the Society of Jesus in 1983. He has a PhD from the University of Washington (Seattle). He taught sociology for two years at Xavier University in Cincinnati and urban studies for seven years in St. Louis University’s Department of Public Policy Studies. Fr. Flack has been trained as a spiritual director at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville, PA. He served on the staff of the Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House in Illinois, including several months as administrator. He has preached retreats at the Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House, the Jesuit Spirituality Center in Milford, OH, Manresa Jesuit Retreat House, and the Cenacle in Chicago. Before joining Manresa’s staff in 2019, he served as Director of Spiritual Life at St. Joseph College Seminary in Chicago.

Fr. Robert J. Scullin, SJ was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan along with three other siblings. He attended Shrine of the Little Flower Elementary School, University of Detroit High School and entered the novitiate of the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus in 1964. His formation included undergraduate studies at the University of Detroit, philosophy and theology studies at Bellarmine School of Theology in North Aurora, Illinois, and theology studies at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Prior to ordination he taught high school English at St. John’s High School, Toledo, OH and served as pastoral assistant at Gesu Parish, in Cleveland. Following ordination, he studied Spanish at the Instituto de Idiomas in Cochabamba, Bolivia and served in the Office for Hispanic Affairs of the Archdiocese of Detroit. He has served in Hispanic and African American parishes in Cleveland, Port Huron, New York City, and Columbus, Ohio. From 1989 to1990, he worked as interim director at St. Malachi Center, Cleveland, a multi-service neighborhood center. As an associate director of the National Jesuit Office for Social Ministry of the Jesuit Conference, he was a principal organizer of a national conference “Faith Doing Justice” in Detroit in 1991. He pronounced final vows in the Society of Jesus in 1993. Following the completion of Doctor of Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago in 2000, he was appointed Provincial of the Detroit Province. In 2008, Father Scullin participated in the 35th General Congregation which elected Father Adolfo Nícolas as Superior General of the order. In 2009, Father Scullin was appointed pastor of Gesu, serving for eight years, after which he served as superior of the Colombiere Jesuit Community in Clarkston for three years. Father Scullin occasionally composes songs with religious and political themes and has recorded one CD And It’s So Clear.