Fr. Tim joined the Pope Francis Center (PFC) as executive director in 2015 and was named president and CEO in 2023.
A native of Ferndale, Mich., Fr. Tim has advocated for the poor and marginalized for more than 40 years. Fr. Tim became involved with the Detroit peace community and the Catholic Worker Movement as a young man. On a humanitarian aid mission to El Salvador, he was drawn to his Jesuit companions, whose faith in action propelled his decision to attend the Jesuit-based University of Detroit Mercy, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. He joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC), serving as the human service organization’s Midwest director for 12 years. His work with JVC introduced Fr. Tim’s to Ignatian spirituality, making a tremendous impact not only on how he prayed, but how he understood the world.
Fr. Tim completed advanced philosophy studies from University of Chicago at Loyola, and earned a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in Berkeley, Calif. He was ordained to the priesthood in June 2015.
Under his leadership, PFC’s Day Center has grown from serving 50 people a day to an organization that provides nutritionally balanced meals, laundry, shower and other support services to more than 230 people daily.
Determined to end chronic homelessness in Detroit, Fr. Tim traveled across the U.S. researching the best models for getting people off the streets and into permanent supportive housing. The result of that was the Bridge Housing Campus, a $40 million, 60,000 square-foot residential, wrap-around services and medical clinic facility that is the first of its kind in Michigan. Bridge Housing Campus opened to residents in September 2024.
Fr. Tim joined the Pope Francis Center (PFC) as executive director in 2015 and was named president and CEO in 2023.
A native of Ferndale, Mich., Fr. Tim has advocated for the poor and marginalized for more than 40 years. Fr. Tim became involved with the Detroit peace community and the Catholic Worker Movement as a young man. On a humanitarian aid mission to El Salvador, he was drawn to his Jesuit companions, whose faith in action propelled his decision to attend the Jesuit-based University of Detroit Mercy, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. He joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC), serving as the human service organization’s Midwest director for 12 years. His work with JVC introduced Fr. Tim’s to Ignatian spirituality, making a tremendous impact not only on how he prayed, but how he understood the world.
Fr. Tim completed advanced philosophy studies from University of Chicago at Loyola, and earned a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University in Berkeley, Calif. He was ordained to the priesthood in June 2015.
Under his leadership, PFC’s warming center has grown from serving 50 people a day to an organization that provides nutritionally balanced meals, laundry, shower and other support services to more than 230 people daily.
Determined to end chronic homelessness in Detroit, Fr. Tim traveled across the U.S. researching the best models for getting people off the streets and into permanent supportive housing. The result of that was the Bridge Housing Campus, a $40 million, 60,000 square-foot residential, wrap-around services and medical clinic facility that is the first of its kind in Michigan. Bridge Housing Campus opened to residents in September 2024.
