About

Monsignor Leonard F. Badia, PhD., K.C.H.S

• Doctorate in Religious Education from New York University, 1975.
• KCHS: Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, awarded by Cardinal Egan of New York.
• Priest from the Brooklyn Diocese.
• Retired from Brooklyn Diocese, working in the Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach.
• Celebrating Mass on weekends and weekdays at Ascension, Emmanuel and St. Thomas More Churches.
• Teacher at the Major Catholic Seminary, St. Vincent Depaul Regional Seminary, in Boynton Beach, FL
• Member of the Catholic Interfaith Council of the Brooklyn Diocese for the past 30 years.
• Lecturer on theological Issues in Churches and Synagogues.
• Author – Five books – the latest on Catholic-Jewish issues
  Former teacher of Theology and chairperson of Philosophy/Theology Department at St. John’s University, New York for 16 years.
  Presently working with the polish bishops on Anti-Semitism in Poland..
• Awarded the religious title of Canon by the Polish bishops for his Catholic-Jewish work for the past 6 years
• Chaplain at Serra Club, Palm Beach Diocese.