Meet Father Peter!

Posted on December 31, 1969

Elon University has welcomed the Rev. Peter Tremblay as Catholic Campus Minister and Associate Chaplain for Catholic Life.

Born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., Tremblay attended Franciscan University of Steubenville and joined the Franciscan Friars after graduating. He received a Masters of Divinity from Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C., and has been an ordained Catholic priest since 2012. He comes to Elon from Baltimore, where he spent the past two years teaching morality and philosophy at Archbishop Curley High School.

Tremblay said at Elon, he's found a community impressive for "its willingness to dialogue on almost every issue imaginable."

"I absolutely love the academic questions around where does religion fit in in the world today," Tremblay said.

The relationships that come as part of a campus ministry are key to that dialogue, Tremblay said, as well as to the role he will play as Catholic campus ministry.

"I really think that the greatest struggle most anyone is going to wrestle with is loneliness," Tremblay said. Going forward, he hopes "to go deeper in continuing to develop a wonderful community that's already here, and that can give people an escape from loneliness that's an alternative to other options that are out there."

Tremblay said he's excited about having access to the culture and the resources that come with ministering within a university community.

"I have found in the last couple of years, continuing the advanced study of theology and philosophy is something I was doing a lot of in my free time," Tremblay said.

Tremblay follows Father Gerry Waterman in the role of Catholic campus minister at Elon. Waterman left the university this spring to become chaplain with Catholic Campus Ministry at Syracuse University.

Owen Covington, reprinted from Elon E-net