I was in Rome the last week in February for the installation of Father Peter Harman as the new rector of the Pontifical North American College. Father Harman is a priest of our diocese from the former parish of St. John the Baptist in Quincy where he was born in 1973. He attended Quincy Notre Dame High School and completed philosophical studies in preparation for the priesthood at Saint Meinrad College Seminary in Indiana. He finished his seminary formation at the Pontifical North American College and received a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Alphonsian Academy of Moral Theology at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. Father Harman was ordained a priest in 1999 and served as Parochial Vicar at the Cathedral and at St. Agnes Parish in Springfield before earning his Doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America. The topic of his dissertation was Towards a Theology of Suffering: The Contribution of Karol Wojtyła/Pope John Paul II. He then returned to central Illinois as pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for another five years before returning to the Pontifical North American College in 2013 as Director of Pastoral Formation, Formation Adviser, and Director of Media Relations. Thanks to the convenience of modern communications technology and e-mail, he has continued to assist me and our Catholic Conference of Illinois as a research theologian, particularly in the area of Catholic moral theology and bioethics.