Staff at Saint Paul of the Cross Parish

Don enters his fifth year at Saint Paul of the Cross Parish as Director of Adult Formation/Safe Environment Coordinator. He spent 16 years as the Director of Religious Education and Safe Environment Coordinator at Our Lady of Grace Parish in the South Hills. Prior to his time at OLG, Don taught 7th & 8th grade history and religion at the Catholic Academy of West Buffalo in the Diocese of Buffalo and spent six years as a college baseball coach at The Catholic University of America, the University of Maryland, Georgetown University, and Niagara University. 

In addition to serving as the part-time Director of Faith Formation and Safe Environment Coordinator at Our Lady of the Angels & St. Maria Goretti Parishes in the Garfield/Bloomfield/Lawrenceville neighborhoods of the city of Pittsburgh, he has taught 9th & 10th grade theology at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart High School, 11th grade Morality at Seton LaSalle High School and 11th grade Ecclesiology at Oakland Catholic High School during the Spring '25 semester. 

A native of the Washington D.C. area, he holds an M.S. in Secondary Education from Niagara University and has completed 19 classes towards an M.A. in Theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Don resides in the North Hills with his wife and six children and is a parishioner at St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church on the North Side.