Rev. Fr. Robert P. Badillo, M.Id
Pastor
ROBERT PETER BADILLO was born of Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx, New York City. Upon completing grade seven at St. Luke's School, he received a scholarship to study at St. James, a boarding school in Berlin, Connecticut, but two and a half years later, he returned to New York, resulting from his mother's ill health, and studied at Cardinal Hayes High School. He began his bachelor degree at the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham University, where he met the Idente Missionaries of Christ the Redeemer, a religious institute, now of Pontifical Right, in which he professed vows in 1974.
With a view toward his eventual ordination as a priest, he was transferred by his superiors to Washington, D.C., where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees with a major in philosophy at the famed School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America. Then, while teaching English grammar and composition at the Multicultural High School in Washington, he completed the coursework for a doctorate in philosophy at The American University, but, transferred to Philadelphia, he wrote his dissertation in this city on the contemporary German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. He then taught philosophy at Hahnemann University, the Community College of Philadelphia and Villanova University.
In 1993, upon the request of his superiors, that he finish his theological studies for priestly ordination, he returned to the nation's capital to complete a Master of Divinity degree at Oblate College, where he also taught philosophy, in addition to teaching at the University of the District of Columbia.
On May 13, 1995, on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima and of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, he was ordained to the priesthood by John Cardinal O'Connor. He served as parochial vicar at Santa Maria Parish, while teaching philosophy, first, at Fordham University and, then, at St. John's. His superiors transferred him in September 2000 to India (Cochin, Kerala), with the mission to establish its first residence for the men's branch there. While in India he taught philosophy at Sacred Heart Philosophical College (Aluva, Kerala). In February 2007, his superiors asked him to serve as pastor of the Parish of Our Lady of Solace--St. Dominic. In September 2007 he returned to St. John's University, where he serves as adjunct associate professor of philosophy, currently teaching metaphysics.
His specializations are in the field of metaphysics, philosophical anthropology and ethics. In addition to publishing a number of articles, and co-editing two volumes titled The Humanization of Social Life (2004), his first book is titled The Emancipative Theory of Jürgen Habermas and Metaphysics (1991).
"My life has been an adventurous dream of celestial origin that, notwithstanding what appears to me as my almost constitutive ineptitude, divine grace has and continues to realize for the greater glory of my heavenly Father, the first and last reason of my existence. I live in a filial state of ineffable gratitude as a son before my eternal Father, as a brother before my Divine Brother, and as a friend before the Holy Spirit, and this in tender union with Mary and Joseph, as well as with the Holy Father, today Benedict XVI, and the Father Founder of the Idente Missionaries, Fernando Rielo, from whom I have learned the sweetness of the 'pain of love.'"
With a view toward his eventual ordination as a priest, he was transferred by his superiors to Washington, D.C., where he completed his bachelor's and master's degrees with a major in philosophy at the famed School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America. Then, while teaching English grammar and composition at the Multicultural High School in Washington, he completed the coursework for a doctorate in philosophy at The American University, but, transferred to Philadelphia, he wrote his dissertation in this city on the contemporary German philosopher Jürgen Habermas. He then taught philosophy at Hahnemann University, the Community College of Philadelphia and Villanova University.
In 1993, upon the request of his superiors, that he finish his theological studies for priestly ordination, he returned to the nation's capital to complete a Master of Divinity degree at Oblate College, where he also taught philosophy, in addition to teaching at the University of the District of Columbia.
On May 13, 1995, on the feast of Our Lady of Fatima and of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, he was ordained to the priesthood by John Cardinal O'Connor. He served as parochial vicar at Santa Maria Parish, while teaching philosophy, first, at Fordham University and, then, at St. John's. His superiors transferred him in September 2000 to India (Cochin, Kerala), with the mission to establish its first residence for the men's branch there. While in India he taught philosophy at Sacred Heart Philosophical College (Aluva, Kerala). In February 2007, his superiors asked him to serve as pastor of the Parish of Our Lady of Solace--St. Dominic. In September 2007 he returned to St. John's University, where he serves as adjunct associate professor of philosophy, currently teaching metaphysics.
His specializations are in the field of metaphysics, philosophical anthropology and ethics. In addition to publishing a number of articles, and co-editing two volumes titled The Humanization of Social Life (2004), his first book is titled The Emancipative Theory of Jürgen Habermas and Metaphysics (1991).
"My life has been an adventurous dream of celestial origin that, notwithstanding what appears to me as my almost constitutive ineptitude, divine grace has and continues to realize for the greater glory of my heavenly Father, the first and last reason of my existence. I live in a filial state of ineffable gratitude as a son before my eternal Father, as a brother before my Divine Brother, and as a friend before the Holy Spirit, and this in tender union with Mary and Joseph, as well as with the Holy Father, today Benedict XVI, and the Father Founder of the Idente Missionaries, Fernando Rielo, from whom I have learned the sweetness of the 'pain of love.'"
