O’Donnell, 51, has served as college president since 1992 and has taught both theology and history at Christendom since 1984.
The father of nine, he earned a licentiate and a doctorate in ascetical and mystical theology from the University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He has taught at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California, and at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
O’Donnell will be joining the presidential committee of the Pontifical Council with fellow newly appointed consultors Carl Anderson, the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, and Franciscan Father David Jaeger of the Custody of the Holy Land, as well as several others.
