Reverend Dr. Mark-David Janus, Rector Fr. Janus is a Paulist priest and clinical psychologist who currently serves as the rector of the Cathedral of Saint Andrew and director of the Catholic Information Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Hailing from Rochester, New York, Fr. Janus joined the Paulists in 1974. After attending the Paulist Seminary in Washington D.C, and studying theology at Catholic University of America, he was ordained in 1979, and joined the staff of the Catholic Information Center in Boston.

Reverend Dr. Mark-David Janus, Rector

In addition to his work in adult religious education, he worked extensively with runaway and homeless youth and assisted at the campus ministry at Boston University. He later became a campus minister at the University of Connecticut and most recently at the Ohio State University. In each of these locations he has been involved in adult religious development.

Fr. Janus received his doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Connecticut and specializes in child-adolescent psychology. He is an expert in the effect of trauma on children and adolescents; he has lectured and written extensively on the effects of physical and sexual abuse, including two books on runaway and homeless youth. He has served as a member of the faculty in the department of psychiatry at both The Ohio State University College of Medicine and the Indiana University School of Medicine. In that capacity Dr. Janus was responsible for the psychological assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with acute and chronic emotional and pediatric illness. Actively involved in the training of medical students and psychiatric residents, he was one of the first recipients of a Templeton Grant to introduce the study of the relationship of faith and healing into the medical curriculum.

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