Rev. Steve Newton, C.S.C., currently serves as Executive Director of the Association of US Catholic Priests. He has served as a Campus Minister at Saint Mary’s College, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the priest-in-residence at Flaherty Hall at Notre Dame. Father Newton has been associated with the University of Notre Dame and the Congregation of Holy Cross since 1961, his freshman year of high school. After graduating from the University, he taught for three years at the congregation’s high school in Niles, IL., and has been involved in other ministries, such as helping start programs for poor and homeless persons, including those with alcohol and drug addictions. He was the first director of South Bend’s Center for the Homeless. He also served as Rector of Sorin Hall for 11 years and was in parish ministry for six years.