Lawrence Lovasik

Lawrence Lovasik, was a Catholic priest and member of the missionary Society of the Divine Word. Lovasik wrote more than 30 books and 75 pamphlets.

Life Lovasik was born on June 22, 1913, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania to Stephen and Mary Salisbury Lovasik. He attended primary school at Saint Clement School before continuing on to Divine Word minor seminary and college in Girard, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1931.

Lovasik then entered St. Mary's Mission Seminary in Techny, Illinois, where he graduated in 1938. After completing his theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Father Lovasik was ordained a missionary priest of the Society of the Divine Word on August 14, 1938. In 1967, he founded the Family Service Corps, a secular institute devoted to charitable work for the sick, elderly and needy. The facilities operated by the Family Service Corps were later turned over to the Vincentian Sisters of Charity.

Father Lovasik retired from missionary work in 1982. He died on June 9, 1986, in Techny, Illinois.