Our President and CEO

Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti is a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in1973 as a distinguished graduate and spent six years in the Air Force as an intelligence officer. After ordination, he served in two parishes before becoming Director of Education of the House of Affirmation. He is the author of the Paulist Press bestseller I Am Awake and the Twenty-Third Publications’ Fire on the Earth. He is editor of the Silver Gryphon Award-winning book Slayer of the Soul, author of A Tragic Grace, published by Liturgical Press, the Ave Maria books: When the Lion Roars: A Primer for the Unsuspecting Mystic and The Joy of Priesthood, the latter receiving a Catholic Press Association Book award. His most recent book is Behold Your Mother: Priests Speak About Mary.

A licensed psychologist in the States of Maryland and Massachusetts, Msgr. Rossetti has a Ph.D. in psychology from Boston College and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Catholic University. He was chair of the Maryland Psychological Association’s ethics committee. He received a Proclaim Award in 1994 from the U.S. Bishops’ Conference and a Lifetime Service Award from Theological College. He was also a founding board member of Saint John’s University and chair of the Maryland Psychological Association’s ethics committee. He received a Proclaim Service Award from Theological College. He was also a founding Board member of Saint John’s University Interfaith Sexual Trauma Institute. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Md., a residential treatment program for clergy and religious men and women, and chair of the board of St. Luke’s Centre in Manchester, England. Msgr. Rossetti lectures and gives workshops to clergy and religious in several countries on spirituality, sexuality, and mental health. He has authored many articles and audiocassette tapes on these issues.

> Articles, Books and Audiotapes

November 19, 2006, Archdiocese of Washington: Conferral of Papal Honor of Monsignor, rank of Chaplain of His Holiness.

October 2004: Alumnus Lifetime Service Award from Theological College of The
Catholic University of America -- (courtesy of Theological College and the
Communications Office of The Catholic University of America)

April 2 - 5, 2003: SLI President Attends Vatican Symposium On Child Abuse

On April 2, 2000: Fr. Rossetti received the Distinguished Priest Award from the John Carroll Society of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. for his significant contribution to health care ministry.

Raymond C. Brophy, K.M. • Chairman of the Board
David S.J. Brown, K.M.
Charles T. Lindsay, Jr., K.M.
Most Rev. John B. McCormack D.D.
Dennis I. Meyer, K.M.
John P. O’Brien, K.M.
Mary Noel Page, D.M.
Sheila S.G. Pashayan
Paul Rossetti
Rev. Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti, Ph.D., D.Min. • President and CEO
Edward T. Schnoor, M.D.
Sister Margaret Tuley, D.C.
Rev. Msgr. Peter J. Vaghi

CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
William H. Mann

HONORARY
Rev. Canice Connors, OFM Conv.
Sr. Carol Keehan, D.C.
Most Rev. Thomas C. Kelly, O.P.

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