Jonathan Morris Biography
Jonathan Morris is an American author, actor, and media commentator on religious issues who has worked as a Fox News contributor and analyst since 2005. He was a priest in the Legionaries of Christ and later in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. He requested clemency from the clerical state in 2019.
Jonathan Morris Age
Morris is 49 years old as of 2021. He was born on 22 August 1972 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Jonathan Morris Height
Morris stands at a height of 5 feet and 7 inches (1.70 m).
Jonathan Morris Family
Morris, the third of seven children, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, where he served as vice president of the University Student Government.
Jonathan Morris Wife
Morris has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Jonathan Morris Education
Morris enrolled in the seminary at the age of 21 and completed his studies in Rome, Italy, earning degrees in theology, philosophy, and classical humanities. He continued to live and work in Rome after being ordained as a priest in the Legion of Christ order in 2002. He graduated in 2004 with a magna cum laude Licentiate degree in moral theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.
Jonathan Morris Salary
Morris receives an annual salary of $500,000.
Jonathan Morris Net Worth
Morris has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million.
Jonathan Morris Career
Morris left the Legion of Christ in 2009 and became a diocesan priest for the Archdiocese of New York. Later, he worked as the parochial vicar of New York City’s Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in the Soho district. He was transferred to Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan in 2013 to work as the program director of The Catholic Channel on SiriusXM radio and as a chaplain at Columbia University.
Morris was appointed pastor of The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the Bronx in February 2015. It is situated on East 187th Street. Pope Francis granted his request. Morris had been granted his request to be taken out of active ministry by Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Morris served as a theological advisor on The Passion of the Christ, a movie directed by Mel Gibson, from 2002 to 2004. Morris provided reports and analysis for CNN, the Fox News Channel, the BBC, and Sky News during Pope John Paul II’s final illness in March 2005 and the days leading up to his passing on April 5, and he was interviewed by Bill Hemmer, Larry King, Shepard Smith, Anderson Cooper, and Christiane Amanpour, among others. Shortly after, Morris started working for the Fox News Channel after receiving offers from several networks to contribute follow-up reports. He proposed, when accepting the job offer from the network, to cover more than just Vatican-related news events and to examine other news stories from an ethical perspective.
Since April 2005, Morris’ work has grown to include documents that go beyond Vatican-specific reports. Several Fox News Channel shows, including Fox & Friends, Dayside, Hannity and Colmes, The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum, and The O’Reilly Factor, have interviewed him. Additionally, he has provided content for The Strategy Room, an online news forum hosted by Fox Business Network and Fox News.com.
In May 2009, Morris started a recurring segment for the late-night news/comedy program Red Eye on Fox News Channel. Morris responded to viewer inquiries on matters of religion and spirituality for this segment, Father Knows Best. He also frequently contributed news segments to the program. He started contributing to The Wall Street Journal in the same year. For the History Channel special The Real Face of Jesus?, which followed a team of computer and 3D experts as they uncovered forensic data from the Shroud of Turin and extrapolated a new image of the man’s face from the shroud, Morris was interviewed as a theological advisor in March 2010.
Morris took on the role of program director for The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM in 2012 and served in that capacity until 2015. Morris is the author of two books: God Wants You Happy: From Self-Help to God’s Help and The Promise: God’s Purpose and Plan for When Life Hurts. The Way of Serenity: Finding Peace and Happiness in the Serenity Prayer is his most recent book. Morris starred alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci in the 2019 movie The Irishman as Frank Sheeran’s priest at the nursing home.
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