Fr. Thomas Cassidy, SCJ, was re-elected as provincial superior of the United States Province of the Priests of the Sacred Heart on Tuesday, June 15, during the Province Election Assembly in Hales Corners, Wis.
Fr. Cassidy, 67, was first elected as provincial superior in 2007. At the time of his election, he was president-rector of Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corners, Wis.
Before assuming duties at Sacred Heart, Fr. Cassidy served two terms on the General Council of the Priests of the Sacred Heart in Rome. Prior to his first-term election in 1991, he was on the provincial staff for the U.S. Province. He came to the Provincialate after serving as principal and then as superintendent of St. Joseph’s Indian School in Chamberlain, S.D. Fr. Cassidy was also principal of Divine Heart Seminary in Donaldson, Ind., and spent several years teaching.
Fr. Cassidy is a 1971 graduate of Sacred Heart School of Theology, and also holds a master’s degree in political science from Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a second master’s degree in religious studies from Mundelein College in Chicago. In 1978, he earned an Education Specialist (EdS) degree in School Administration from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.
Currently, Fr. Cassidy is also president of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) in the United States.
A Milwaukee native, Fr. Cassidy professed his first vows with the community in 1962 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1971.
The election of the five-member Provincial Council will take place in the days ahead.
