About the Author: Fr. Richard Rento
Father Richard G. Rento is a native of Clifton, N.J., having graduated from St. Paul’s Elementary School in that city. After graduation from Clifton High School, he went on to Seton Hall University, Immaculate Conception Seminary, and the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
He has been a priest of the Diocese of Paterson for 58 years. During that time he has ministered as pastor, administrator, educator, hospital chaplain, radio broadcaster, lecturer, and retreat-giver. For 20 years he was diocesan director of religious education and director of continuing education for priests; for the next 20 years he served as pastoral team coordinator at St. Brendan Church in Clifton. In 1998, he retired and is now living in Lavallette, NJ. He remains more active than he had anticipated, serving as Catholic chaplain at the Seabrook Village retirement community in Tinton Falls, N.J., presiding at the weekly WPAT Radio Mass in Paterson, lecturing, and giving retreats and days of recollection.
The title says it all! It’s Not Necessarily So: A Senior Priest Separates Faith from Fiction and Makes Sense of Belief. A wise parish priest and educator not only tackles the problems in the institution of the Catholic Church and the dogma of the Catholic faith, but also offers solutions and spiritual insights.
