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Father Pius was first nominated to serve on the Board of Directors of ���˶��� by President Barack Obama on June 25, 2010, and his nomination was confirmed by the U. S. Senate on September 29, 2010.  He currently serves as the Vice-Chairman of the LSC Board.

Father Pius is a priest of the Order of Preachers (the “Dominicans”). He currently serves as a professor in the Faculty of Canon Law, adjunct professor in the Faculty of Theology, and Director of Institutional Collaboration at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy.  He also serves as a judge on the ecclesiastical tribunal of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA.

He was ordained to the priesthood on May 23, 2008, after having entered the novitiate for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2002. Fr. Pius has a License in Theology (STL) from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (Washington, DC) and a Doctoral Degree in Canon Law (JCD) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome).  He has previously taught at St Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, CA and the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

Prior to entering the Dominican Order, he worked for three years in the Corporate and Securities practice of Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago. He obtained his law degree (JD) from the University of Chicago.