Jesuit Retreat House Staff

FR. E. EUGENE ARTHUR, S.J.
holds a doctorate in business administration from Indiana University and was a professor of management for twenty-eight years at Rockhurst University. For many years he directed The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola in Daily Life to faculty and staff, and he has extensive experience in spiritual direction and in leading conference retreats.

     
SR. EILEEN CURRIE

SR. EILEEN CURRIE, M.S.C.
After spending twenty-four years in various levels of education, including serving as president of Cabrini College from 1982 to 1992, Eileen completed a master's degree in spirituality at Creighton University. She then completed a residential internship program in retreat direction for the Spiritual Exercises at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. She has extensive experience in spiritual direction and in giving conference retreats for groups.

     

FR. VINCENT E. HOVLEY, S.J.
holds a doctorate in mystical theology. His primary work has been spiritual direction and retreats. He also has lived and worked with the homeless of New York and Denver, taught theology, and directed a Jesuit leadership training program.

     
FR. RICHARD W. DUNPH

FR. RICHARD W. DUNPHY, S.J.
holds a doctorate in theology and has specialized in Ignatian spirituality, especially as it relates to Jesuit higher education. He has served as a faculty member, administrator and chaplain at Jesuit universities in St. Louis, Rome, and Denver. He also has counseled people living with and affected by HIV, worked with the homeless and chemically dependent, and served as the founding director of Regis Universitity's Institute on the Common Good.

     

FR. E. EDWARD KINERK, S.J.
was ordained in 1972.  He received his doctorate in Spiritual Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome.  His first assignment was to Sacred Heart Retreat House from 1975 to 1979.  In subsequent years he has served as Novice Director, Provincial of the Missouri Province of Jesuits, and more recently as President of Rockhurst University in Kansas City.


 

 

MARGARET WHEELER

MARGARET WHEELER
has a master's degree in theology, and has been an administrator, educator, and spiritual director at the Kino Institute in Phoenix, St. Joseph's Center in Des Moines, and Manresa Jesuit Retreat House in Michigan. She is the proud mother of three grown children and has two young grandchildren.

   
  VISITING DIRECTORS-WEEKEND RETREATS

 

  • SR. MARY ANN FIGLINO, C.S.J. is a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet and works in the Empowerment program with women getting their GED's, transitioning from prison, and developing a new spirituality.

 

  • KATHY COFFEY is a nationally known speaker and the author of many books on women's spirituality including Hidden Women of the Gospels.
  • COLLEEN COFFEY is a communications coordinator for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
  • LILLIAN SALMERON-VOLL was born and raised in San Salvador, El Salvador, and has studied at three Jesuit Universities:  the University of Central American in San Salvador, Loyola University in New Orleans, and Regis University in Denver.  For the past two years she has been a lay preacher with the Isaiah Ministries giving bi-lingual parish renewal programs around the U.S.

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