Our Staff

Father Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P  Chaplain

Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, O.P. entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2010. He made his solemn profession on August 9, 2014 and was ordained a priest on May 21, 2016. In the spring of 2010 he graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville with a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Masters of Divinity from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. . Fr. Joseph-Anthony’s previous ministry placements include assisting at the Newman Center of George Washington University as well as at Mount De Sales Academy in Catonsville, MD. A native of St. Clairsville, OH, he is the youngest of three.

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Corinne Riley
 Lay Campus Minister

Corinne Riley is deeply in love with her home state of Virginia and even more in love with her job. She graduated from Belmont Abbey College in 2012 after studying English and Theology, and after serving as a missionary and team director with FOCUS for 3 years alongside the gators of southwest Florida, she traded one coast line for another to assume the role of campus minister at Christopher Newport University. After 2 years with the Catholic Captains at CNU, she answered the call of the mountains and returns to her childhood hometown to become a Catholic Hoo. If you can spot her having free time, she will either be planning hikes and concerts, devouring a mountain of books, being "artsy", or eating. Her favorite saints are Therese and JPII, and if she could be the patron saint of something, she would hope it would be awkward dance moves.

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