Retired Paulist Father Ted Vierra was born in Boston in 1929, where his recently married dad, a Hawaiian, and mother, a Californian, were studying. Fr. Ted was raised in public, Catholic, and private schools in Honolulu. He majored in Geology at the University of Hawaii and UCLA where I met the Paulists.
After ordination Fr. Ted’s major assignments have been to Paulist foundations in Chicago, Vancouver B.C., Berkeley, Toronto, Tucson, North Pole AK, Portland, and UCLA.