Joseph A. Slattery is an Irish-born priest, author, and professor. Emigrating from Dublin, Ireland, Fr. Slattery was ordained in America in 1966, for the diocese of Richmond, Virginia. He received his PhD in religious studies from the Catholic University in Washington, DC in 1980 and coauthored a catechetical series for grades seven through twelve entitled I Call You Friends with Margrit Banta. After spending several years in parish and adult education work he was named director of ministry to Priests for the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference while lecturing part-time at St. John Vianney National Seminary in Pretoria (1997-2002). He took leave from the Richmond diocese to teach courses in biblical and pastoral studies at St. Charles Lwanga National Seminary in Windhoek, Namibia.