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New Brother Profiles
Brother Richard Critz
 A Hanes pantyhose factory, athletic fields, or broken-down trailers might seem like unlikely places to find God, but that is exactly where Brother Richard Critz has experienced the Holy. His ministries have shown him how faith sustains ordinary lives — and grows in unexpected ways.
Read more.
Brother Stanley Culotta, M.D.
“There were around 20 of us there, and since I had never lived in a large family, the equivalent of having so many brothers seemed really different,” he recalls. “To me it was a refreshing experience. It was something I chose, and I met people who had chosen the same thing and were working toward the same goal. It was almost like being a team.” Read
more.
Brother Simon Scribner
 When Brother Simon retired from teaching in his mid-80s,
he could have looked back with pride on a distinguished career.
Instead he looked around the Texas Hill country, bought some
art supplies, and started painting. At the age of 93, his
curiosity still propels him — with a little help from
a motorized cart that he rides around St. Edward’s
University. Read
more. Past Brother Profiles
Brother Romard Barthel
 “Community life is the core
of religious life. It would be hard to imagine living a celibate
life without community, because you have to love and be loved.
We have two sources of that, our community and our students.
You get involved in their lives all the time—you just
have to just sit and listen.”
Read more.
Brother Paul Bray
 With
volunteers from across the country, Brother Paul’s
Cumberland Building Ministry has been providing better
housing to the people of rural Tennessee since 1978. Read
more.
Brother Elmer Brummer
Science has made amazing progress
over the past 60 years, and Brother Elmer has worked on
the front lines—from
the early days of computers to his recent work at California
Institute of Medical Research in San Jose. “My research
is very interesting and time-consuming,” he explains, “but
every day I come home to our community of 12 Brothers.
There is always somebody to talk to, and people to share
your religious exercises.” Read
more.
Brother Richard Daly
From
Miami to Wichita Falls, Brother Richard has gone from teacher
to lobbyist to Executive Director of the Texas Catholic Conference.
However, a few things have remained the same: he continues
to educate, cooperate and collaborate with the congregations
of Catholic communities. Read
more.
Brother Fulgence Dougherty
“Most encouraging, was
the development of the Church and the community. We were
helping to educate the Bengali priests, and the Bengali
bishops had all been students at our school. We also began
seriously recruiting Brothers for the community. Now we
have more than 50 Bengali Holy Cross, with four Americans
and one Canadian. You strive for that, but we didn’t
expect it would happen that quickly.” Read
more.
Brother Joseph Esparza
“The religious life I lead
does not look like that of a Brother at Columba Hall at
Notre Dame or a Brother at [Notre Dame High School in]
Sherman Oaks. I can move into those forms, but the important
thing is the Brothers. It’s
all about the Brothers, the friendship with those men. If
you can be friends through all kinds of ‘weather,’ you
are bonded in our community forever.” Read
more.
Brother Roberto Ortega Jiminez
“I am one of only
two Latino Brothers in the South-West Province. Surprisingly
enough, my mother wasn’t
happy at first with my decision to become a Brother. She
said, ‘I
want grandchildren!’ ‘You have eleven other kids,
Mom,” I told her, “you’ll have plenty,’ but
her feelings didn’t change until she came to Austin
where I was a candidate. When she saw how happy I was, it
made a world of difference to her.” Read
more.
Brother
Jim Kell
Career counselor Brother Jim teaches that life
is a continual process of growth and change, not a single
road defined. It’s the same lesson he's learned
as his own career plans were met by twists and turns. Read
more.
Brother Robert LeGros
 The desire to be a Brother had first surfaced
21 years earlier when Brother Robert was six, though he
didn’t
know what a Brother was. He had looked into the priesthood,
but that life just wasn’t
right for him. Holy Cross gave him the community, spirituality,
and learning he yearned for. Read
more.
Brother William Nick
 As
an educator who has covered plenty of ground, Brother Bill has always
sown hope and continues to reap success while turning institutions
into communities. Read
more.
Brother John Paige
 Brother
John, Dean of Education at St. Edward’s University,
is motivated by need. Educating the disadvantaged is his
passion. Read
more.
Brother Bernard Palmeri
 Being an elementary school counselor in Beaumont, Texas has
taught Brother Bernard that he has more to give, and even
more to gain, than he could have ever imagined. Read
more.
Brother John Perron
 “It seems to me we’re called to places,” says
Brother John Perron, “but with many interests beckoning
me—law, the military, astronomy, religion, teaching—only
gradually did my direction become clear.
My heroes were my teachers, so I looked for
an order of Brothers who
taught. I corresponded through high school
with Brother Eymard, and at 17 I trekked
off to the Holy Cross candidate
program in Watertown, Wisconsin.” Read
more.
Brother Sam Robin
 “When I first started with the Brothers, I wanted
to work on their farm,” says Brother Sam Robin. “I’m
Cajun out of Louisiana and grew up on a dairy
farm in Mississippi. I didn’t know much about religious
life, but I read that Holy Cross had roots
in the South. The Lord has a funny bone,
because since then I’ve
lived in New York, California, Wyoming, Florida,
and Samoa—everywhere but our house in New Orleans,
the one I thought I’d go to!” Read
more.
Brother Michael Winslow
 “I had been teaching in San Antonio for several
years,” says Brother Michael Winslow. “Though
I had taken my temporary vows, I was still
uncomfortable about fully committing myself
to the life of a Brother.
I went to a school 150 miles away for three
years, where I dated, bought a red sports
car, and lived in a nice
apartment. The Brothers visited me, and eventually
I felt called to return. Parts of my life
were similar to what I experienced in the
Congregation, but I missed
living in community. ” Read
more.
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