My name is Fr. James Glasgow. I am a Catholic priest and the chaplain here at the Newman Center. If this is your first time checking out this page, or realizing there is a Catholic student group at GW, then please know you are known and loved by Our Lord. The reason why that is important is because we are created for the sake of relationships, with one another, and ultimately with God (who, by the way, has revealed Himself as relationship). That is obviously a mystery – and Newman can be for you a place where that mystery unfolds and deepens one conversation at a time. If I don’t get the chance to invite you in person, at least let me do so through the drastically limited medium of a screen: come and drop on by!
I grew up in Olney, Maryland, just north of the city and received undergraduate degrees in philosophy and mathematics from The Catholic University of America. Afterwards, and as a continuation of my preparatory studies for the priesthood, I was sent to Rome to study theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, while in residence and formation at the Pontifical North American College. I was ordained a priest of Jesus Christ in 2020. I love Our Lord. And I am grateful to Him for the stupendous gift of life, particularly as incarnated in activities such as eating and reading and talking, as well as spending time outdoors in a variety of manners, usually with a predilection for activities affording an increase of adrenaline. Naps are also great, but they pale in comparison to the torpor of prayer.