Rev. Rodney A. Schwartz was born in Hillsboro, IL and was raised in Witt his whole life. He graduated Witt High School in 1983. He attended college at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and graduated in 1987. He attended the University of St. Mary of the Lake – Mandelein Seminary and was ordained May of 1992. The parishes that he has served are:

• St. Paul in Highland, IL

• St. Jerome in Troy, IL

• St. Al’s, St. Cabrine, & Little Flower in Springfield, IL

• St. Agnes in Hillsboro, IL

• St. Mary’s in Pittsfield, IL

• St. Marks’s in Winchester, IL

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Father Rodney’s loyalties are with the Bears, the Cubs, and Illini Athletics.