Bishop names new Director of Marriage and Family Life

Bishop Earl Boyea has appointed Richard Budd to serve as the director of the diocesan office of Marriage and Family Life. Richard, originally from Bay City, has a bachelor’s degree from Magdalen College in New Hampshire, an M.T.S. in Marriage and Family Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Washington, D.C., and is completing a master’s degree in biblical and moral theology from Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit.   
Richard has experience as a Catholic high school teacher, a campus minister, a director of religious education, a residential instructor for the developmentally disabled, leading RCIA and as a public speaker on various family ministry topics. He began work in the diocesan Central Service Department of Vocations on July 13.