Rev. Richard M. Nahman, OSA

Roman Catholic Speaker

Rev. Richard M. Nahman, OSA, has been an Augustinian since 1957, and a Roman Catholic priest since 1965. He grew up in New York City, and has received degrees from Villanova University, Catholic University, and Regis College/University of Toronto.

Father's 46 years of ministry have been varied, beginning with teaching in Washington, DC, post-graduate studies in Ottawa, Canada, parochial ministry in the Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Albany dioceses in the USA and Ottawa, Toronto and Schaferville/Labrador, Canada; and work on his Order's provincial and seminary staffs. Father has been an itinerant preacher with Food For The Poor since 1997.

It was with the assassination of Martin Luther King in April 1968, while he was teaching in Washington, DC, that Father's ministry took a sharp focus on the social obligations of a follower of Jesus. Since then his heart has been with people on the margins of society. He was very much involved in the racial reconciliation efforts after the tragedy of King’s death. In later years Father Dick worked with Maggie Kuhn (Gray Panthers) on social issues facing our elderly, and Henri Nouwen and work with people with developmental disabilities. He has published on these issues. Throughout his ministry, Father Dick has also been very involved in interfaith dialogue.

For ten years Father was an appointee to the New York City Board of Correction, a nine person body charged with establishing and overseeing the values and principles under which the city's 13 jails operate.

Father Dick presently lives with the Augustinian community at Saint Nicholas of Tolentine Parish in the Bronx, New York, where he serves as prior and treasurer, and on an advisory committee of his Order’s NGO to the United Nations.

Since beginning his ministry in 1997 with Food For The Poor, Father has preached at over 500 parishes throughout the United States.