Bishop Francis Malooly’s appointment of Fr. John Kavanaugh officially began on Thursday, September 1, 2011. He resides at the Rectory and is to serve our community until further notice.

A retired priest of the Diocese of Wilmington, Fr. Kavanaugh is well known to many us who remember him when he was in residence here before St. John Neumann became a separate parish from St. Luke/St. Andrew Parish in October 2007. He has served the Diocese in recent years as a parish administrator when needed. We are blessed to have him here at St. John Neumann.

Reverend Mr. Wilbur L. Pinder, Jr., Deacon & Parish Business Manager

Deacon Wil was born in Baltimore, MD, on October 4, 1938.  He attended public schools and graduated from Baltimore City College High School. He entered the U.S. Marine Corps in 1956, where he took courses in English Composition at Eastern Carolina State College and later attended the U.S. Naval School of Journalism in Great Lakes, IL. Upon returning home in 1961, he met Marie Stanley, of Jersey City, NJ.  They were married on December 7, 1963.  Wil and Marie (a retired school teacher) have three children and two grandchildren.  From 1961 to 1968 Wil was a reporter for several newspapers including the Baltimore Afro-American and the Baltimore Evening Sun.  He later worked at the Washington Daily News and as a news producer for WJZ-TV in Baltimore.  In 1968 Wil moved to Washington, DC to enter federal service as a public information officer with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services until he retired in 1987. 

Wil was accepted into the Archdiocese of Washington Diaconal Formation Program in 1988 and was ordained a Permanent Deacon on September 14, 1991 by the late James Cardinal Hickey, Archbishop of Washington.  At that time he was serving the Archdiocese as the Associate Director for Communication and was assigned to St. Francis of Assisi Parish, Derwood, MD for diaconal ministry.  A year later, Cardinal Hickey appointed Deacon Wil Associate Director of the Archdiocesan Office of the Permanent Diaconate, a post he held until 1995 when he was named Pastoral Associate for Administration at St. Francis of Assisi Parish. In 2004 Wil retired and moved to Ocean Pines, MD.  He was assigned to St. Mary Star of the Sea/Holy Savior Parish, Ocean City for diaconal ministry.  He was reassigned to St. John Neumann Parish in May 2009, where he also serves as the Parish Business Manager.