
Karen Eifler
Karen Eifler is a longtime lay collaborator with Holy Cross stationed in Portland, Oregon.
Members of the Congregation of Holy Cross and their lay collaborators from all over the world tell stories from their hearts about how the charism and mission of Holy Cross help them to make God known, loved and served from Portland to Bangladesh and lots of places in between. Each 20 minute episode offers vivid glimpses of ordinary men and women doing extraordinary things, "crossing borders of every sort," as the Constitutions of Holy Cross call each of us to do, in the spirit of our founder, Blessed Basil Moreau.
Karen Eifler is a longtime lay collaborator with Holy Cross stationed in Portland, Oregon.
Dianne Barlas is the initial Vice President for Mission at Holy Cross College-Notre Dame, in South Bend Indiana. She has been a prolific lay collaborator with Holy Cross her entire adult life, starting in parish social justice ministries, and stays connected to social justice in her current role.
Fr. Bill Dorwart CSC has literally sailed the seven seas throughout his long priesthood, serving multiple tours of duty as a US naval chaplain. He has also ministered to college students and faculty and to his Holy Cross confreres as Provincial Superior and as local superior at our Lady of Fatima House in Notre Dame IN, and Casa Santa Cruz in Phoenix, NM.
Fr. Gordon is Pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Notre Dame-Bangladesh.
Fr. Dick Berg CSC has served Holy Cross in many roles for over 60 years, and he is just getting started.
Fr. Kevin Grove is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, where his course for undergraduates and M.Div students are regularly touted as rigorous and life-changing. He is also assistant chaplain for faculty there, and maintains a very active scholarly agenda.
Fr. Nik Guiney was ordained in 2024 and serves in campus ministry and residence life at the University of Portland.
Fr. Pat Hannon is a beloved essayist, writing teacher and associate pastor at St. Andre Bessette Chapel in downtown Portland, Oregon, serving the unhoused and the marginalized.
Fr. Randy Rentner is pastor of St. Andre Bessette Chapel in downtown Portland, Oregon, serving the unhoused and marginalized of the city.
Fr. Tyler Kreipke was ordained in 2024 and teaches various engineering courses at the University of Portland
Ken Hallenius, OP is Communications Director for the deNicola Center for Ethics & Culture at the University of Notre Dame.
Lisa Kirkpatrick has many units in her portfolio as VP for Student Affairs & Administration at St. Edwards University in Austin Texas, where she has served for more than two decades.
Stacey and Josh Noem met at University of Notre Dame in a freshman seminar and have been together ever since, serving as avid lay collaborators in a variety of capacities alongside Holy Cross religious. Stacey directs the spiritual formation component of the M.Div program at Notre Dame, and Josh currently serves as an editorial director at Ave Maria Press. They have three children.