he led the efforts to obtain from the Lilly Endowment the largest nongovernmental grant ever awarded to Seton Hall. The $2 million award helped establish the Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership. While Vice President for Mission and Ministry from 2001 to 2005, Father Holmes supervised the new Center, Campus Ministry, the University Chaplain, and the International Institute for Clergy Formation. He was also secretary-designee of the University's Board of Regents. Other work Fr. Holmes has published articles in numerous journals, has lectured widely on issues of moral and sacramental theology, and was invited to create This Sunday's Scripture, the first homily service of Twenty-Third Publications in Mystic, Connecticut. For many years, he has served as the chaplain for the Phi Beta chapter of Phi Kappa Theta, a social fraternity. For the last four years, he has been the weekend assistant at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Short Hills, New Jersey. In his spare time, he is independent editor of Mary Jane Clark's series of murder mysteries. Sources School of Diplomacy website Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American book editors American Roman Catholic priests Harvard University alumni People from Newark, New Jersey People from West Orange, New Jersey Seton Hall University faculty Yale University alumni Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni Pontifical Lateran University alumni Pontifical Gregorian University alumni Catholics from New Jersey