Assignments to campus ministry at University of Minnesota surprised Father Anderson, Brother Brennan

Father Jake Anderson and Brother Brennan have been assigned to campus ministry at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Father Anderson, the pastor of St. Lawrence and the Newman Center, and Brother Brennan, a member of the Brotherhood of Hope, both expressed surprise regarding these assignments.

Father Anderson, who grew up in Baldwin, Wisconsin, noted that he did not expect to work in campus ministry because the Paulist Fathers had previously managed the Newman Center and St. Lawrence for 99 years. He previously served as a pastor at the Newman Center at the University of Nebraska in Omaha for one year.

Brother Brennan moved to the Twin Cities from Florida in 2017 to serve as a missionary with St. Paul’s Outreach. He entered the novitiate with the Brotherhood of Hope in 2020 and professed his final vows on July 11.