Personally Speaking ep. 317 (Msgr. Peter Vaccari)

In this episode of Personally Speaking, Msgr. Jim Lisante is joined by Msgr. Peter Vaccari. Msgr. Vaccari is a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. He is president of the “Catholic Near East Welfare Association” and the president of its operating agency in the Middle East, the “Pontifical Mission for Palestine”. Msgr. Vaccari was the rector and president of St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, New York, the seminary of the Archdiocese of New York and the dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre.  Before serving at St. Joseph’s, he was rector of the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, Long Island. Msgr. Vaccari talks about his life, his vocation journey, how he has served the church of greater New York in a variety of capacities, and his insight into the humanitarian crisis facing vulnerable communities across the Middle East, Northeast Africa, India and Eastern Europe.