Born in 1938 of Joseph J. and Loretta T. McLaughlin in Philadelphia, Father McLaughlin was baptized at St. Athanasius Church, Philadelphia and confirmed at Holy Angels Church, Philadelphia. After graduation from Saint John the Baptist High School, Philadelphia in 1956, he matriculated at LaSalle College, Philadelphia, as a mathematics major. In September, 1958 he matriculated at Saint Charles Seminary, Overbrook. He was ordained a priest by John Cardinal Krol at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, on May 21, 1966, the same month he received an M.A. in mathematics from Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

After a year as assistant pastor of St Hilary of Poitiers Church, Rydal, PA, Father McLaughlin was appointed professor at Cardinal O'Hara High School, Springfield, PA. In June, 1975, he was appointed principal of Lansdale Catholic High School, Lansdale, PA; in June, 1981, principal of Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, Philadelphia, PA; and in June 1988, principal of Cardinal O'Hara High School, Springfield, PA. He was appointed Pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in June, 1993, succeeding Rev. William T. McBride, our founding pastor.

In 1968 Father McLaughlin began studying, then teaching, computer programming. In 1982 he began writing the JEN-A-SyS software package, which was expanded by others and was used for over 30 years for tuition accounting, grade reporting, attendance, etc. in the secondary schools of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. His programming skills are in C, COBOL and UNIX shell-scripts and utilities (e.g. awk).

Father McLaughlin celebrated his 50^th anniversary as a priest with the parish community in 2016. In 2018 he celebrated his 25^th anniversary as our pastor, as the parish community was celebrating the 50^th anniversary of its founding.

Archbishop Pérez assigned Rev. Brian A. Izzo as Parochial Vicar of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in August, 2020. He came to St. Vincent de Paul Parish after two years of ministry at St. Mary Magdalen Parish in Media, the same parish from which Father McLaughlin came here in 1993.

Father Izzo, ordained for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in 1998, has spent all of his years of priesthood in parish life — his first assignment was at Our Lady of Good Counsel, Southampton (1998-2002). He enjoys very much the variety that parish life and ministry affords the priest to cooperate and respond to Our Lord's continual call of conversion on a daily basis.

Originally from Concordville, PA, and Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish in Glen Mills, he is the only and adopted son to Charlotte and Joseph Izzo, Jr, who reside in West Grove, PA. He has two sisters who live in the area and five nieces and nephews, and is godfather for two young men: one who is completing his third year in college at Drexel and the other who is in sixth grade.

On June 10, 2001, Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua ordained parishioner Jack Golaszewski to the permanent diaconate and appointed him to diaconal ministry in the parish. Deacon Golaszewski is the first parishioner to be ordained to the permanent diaconate, and the first to serve in the parish.

In January, 2003, Deacon Golaszewski became the Business Manager at St. Vincent de Paul Parish. He served in that position until retiring in November, 2009.

Deacon Rich was ordained in 2011 after completing his diaconal formation at St. Charles Seminary in Philadelphia. He was assigned to St. Andrew's Parish in Newtown for six years until discerning a call in 2017 to return to his home parish of St. Vincent's. While at St. Andrew's he was co-director of the Christ Renews His Parish (CRHP) retreat program for men and women in addition to his normal deacon duties. With his background in business and his former life as an atheist, he has counseled many parishioners at St. Andrews who had either a career challenge or doubts regarding their faith.

Rich is married to Janet for close to 40 years and together they have three grown children and four grandchildren. Rich has been in the software industry for 40 years and is currently a full-time CEO of a 500-person software engineering company with offices in Newtown and several other cities in the US and India. Rich has his MBA in Finance from New York University and his BS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Rich is in his early 60s and lives right here in Richboro with Janet. They are both delighted to be back to their home parish of over 20 years where they have many fond memories.

Elaine began her ministry as our Director of Religious Education in August, 2018. She came to us with 12 years of experience overseeing Religious Education in several parishes in the City of Philadelphia. She has also served as a part-time parish secretary, coordinator of parish services, bulletin editor and bookkeeper for parishes both within and outside the City of Philadelphia. In addition, Elaine does part-time music ministry in multiple parishes.

Elaine grew up in Newtown/Wrightstown and attended St Andrew's Grade School, and Archbishop Wood and Council Rock High Schools. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Temple University, and a M.A. in Theology from LaSalle University. She has also earned a Catechetical Diploma from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and continuing education units in Sacramental Catechesis.

Diana and her husband, Rush, have been parishioners since 1994. They have three daughters who are actively involved in the parish. Having served as a member of our Finance Committee for five years, she became the parish's Business Manager in December, 2009.

The Shermans are a volunteer foster family for future "seeing eye" guide dogs for the blind. The dogs, bred for size, temperament and intelligence and rigorously screened, are placed with the family after they are weaned and kept until they are about 16 months. If all goes well, they will someday be the constant companion of someone who is blind.

Jeanne was born in North Attleborough, MA, daughter of Jeanette Poulin Rondeau and Omer Rondeau and was raised in Pawtucket, RI. She graduated from St. Cecilia's School, Pawtucket; St. Mary Academy, Bay View, Riverside and Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School, Providence. In 1966 Jeanne married Robert Flowers from Salem, MA. Bob graduated from Bryant College in 1973 and moved the family to Darby, PA in 1973. The family moved to Richboro in March, 1977. Jeanne is the mother of Brian (Karen), who resides in Rumford, RI, and twins, Amy and Jason (Bonnie). She is the grandmother of Alex, Luke, Mary and Michael.

A member of St. Vincent de Paul Church since 1977, Jeanne was named Parish Secretary in May, 1994 by Father Joseph J. McLaughlin. She has coordinated the parish's monthly Meals for the Homeless Program for St. John's Hospice in Philadelphia since 1990, served as the Senior CYO Adult Advisor for three years, served as a Lector and Minister of Hospitality, and is currently an ex-officio member of the Parish Pastoral Council.

Jeanne has keen interests in Our Lady's Apparitions, especially Our Lady of La Salette, Bible Study and in icons.

Hubert began his ministry at St. Vincent de Paul Church in May, 2016. He came to us with over 10 years experience in conducting and teaching. For eight years he was the Music Director and Organist at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown. Prior to that he was an organist at St. John the Baptist Church in Salem, MA. In addition he has taught — and teaches — organ, piano, and cello, both privately and for various institutions.

Hubert holds both a Bachelor degree and Masters degree in Music in cello performance from the University of the Music of F. Chopin in Warsaw, Poland. He also earned a graduate performance degree in cello performance from the Boston Conservatory in Boston, MA.

SoNata Stevenson began her ministry at St. Vincent de Paul Church in March, 2013. She leads the Teen Music Group which ordinarily provides the music for our 6 P.M. Mass on Sundays.

SoNata is an organist, pianist, conductor, vocalist (opera and sacred music), accompanist, violinist, recording artist, singer-songwriter, arranger, teacher and composer. At present she is continuing her studies in music performance and education at Temple University. She has experience as an organist, choir director and music director at several churches in the city of Philadelphia.

At the end of the 2003-2004 school year, Susan Hesketh assumed the role of Director of our Pre-School, taking over the reins from Josephine Braunlich, founder and first director of the program.

Susan was born in Lawrence, MA on January 15, 1950. She was raised and educated in North Andover, MA.

Susan graduated from Perry Normal Teaching School in 1971. She taught 2^nd grade at St. Patrick's in Lawrence, and Kindergarten at Atkinson Elementary in North Andover.

On August 29, 1971, Susan married Stanley Hesketh, Jr. from Cambridge, MA. They have four wonderful children: Daniel 5/1/75, Sarah 11/20/76, Matthew 5/5/79 and Kathleen 2/19/92. The family moved to Richboro in August, 1979.

A member of St. Vincent's since 1979, Susan taught in the Pre-School Program from 1982-1992. She took a few years off to raise Katie. She returned to the Pre-School on 9/11/2001 — a day we will all remember!

"Being a part of St. Vincent's has given me a wonderful feeling of love and friendship that will last a lifetime."

Gary and his family moved into the parish in 1984. He and his wife, Sue, have been very much involved in our Parish Conference of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Gary assumed his present position in November, 2003.

His weekly column in the Parish Newsletter, Gary's Yankee Workshop is a parish favorite.