[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 21, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            WELCOMING AND HONORING FATHER THOMAS J. McCARTHY

  (Mr. RYAN of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, I want to thank Father McCarthy for 
your inspiring prayer.
  Albert Einstein once said that ``Only a life lived for others is a 
life worthwhile.'' And for almost 46 years Father Tom McCarthy has 
served the Diocese of Youngstown as a priest, and in that service he 
has lived that motto.
  A Warren native, Father McCarthy attended St. Mary's School and St. 
Mary's High School, which was the predecessor to my alma mater, John F. 
Kennedy High School. After his seminary training, he was ordained on 
August 15, 1961 in St. Columba Cathedral by Bishop Emmet Walsh.
  Those who know him would describe Father McCarthy as pastoral, 
charming, gregarious, a great friend, funny, everything Irish, and 
above all, holy in his service to God.
  Father McCarthy has served at many parishes in the Youngstown 
Diocese, including St. Ed's in Youngstown, St. Joseph's in Austintown, 
St. William's in Champion, St. Michael's in Canfield, Blessed Sacrament 
in Warren and St. Joseph's in Mantua.
  Father McCarthy has also spent much of his career in service to other 
priests. He has served as Diocesan Director of Vocations, Priest 
Personnel Adviser, a member of the Priest Personnel Board, and for 6 
years served as a director of that board. Father McCarthy also spent 
time in Chicago as president of the National Federation of Priests' 
Councils. Since 2003, he has served as the Bishop's Delegate for 
Retired Priests.
  I am happy to have invited, along with my colleague, Charlie Wilson, 
Father McCarthy to Washington, D.C. I thank him for his service to our 
community, for his prayer this morning, and for his many, many years of 
service to the Catholic Church.

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