MICHIGAN
The Hillsdale Collegian
by Roxanne Turnbull on October 5, 2012
Father David Reamsnyder began his priestly duties at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Hillsdale, Mich., Sunday, Sept. 23.
Reamsnyder was selected by the Diocese of Lansing to replace Father Jeffrey Njus after it was discovered Njus had violated his vow of celibacy – leaving the Hillsdale parish without a priest. He will stay in Hillsdale for one year. Afterwards, he said he hopes to become a chaplain in a military unit.
Reamsnyder, his wife Beth, and his two children moved into the rectory of the church recently. As a former Anglican priest who converted to Catholicism, Reamsnyder is permitted to serve as a married Catholic priest under the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
The Ordinariate, created in January 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI for Anglicans converting to Catholicism, was established “to build up the Church through mutual mission and ministry while retaining elements of the Anglican patrimony.”
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