Kevin A. Codd

I was born and raised in Spokane, WA, along with my ten brothers and sisters (six brothers, four sisters). We had a pretty normal 1950-1960 Catholic kind of childhood: church on Sunday, parochial school Monday through Friday, summer fun at our lake place that we shared with our cousins, June through August.

At some point in that childhood, I felt pretty sure I was going to be a priest, and so it was. After eight years of seminary, four here in Spokane at Gonzaga University, and four more in Leuven, Belgium, I was ordained in 1979. I have served mostly in rural parish communities in Eastern Washington, all with sizable Hispanic/Latino communities, so I happily learned Spanish to be able to "convivir" with them and minister to them. I spent a year in the highlands of Guatemala working in the isolated community of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán, a place I still love to visit as often as I can. I also spent eight years in Belgium as Vice-Rector, then Rector-President of my old seminary there, The American College. While there, I got the "bug" to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela...and wrote a book about the adventure, To the Field of Stars. A few years later, I walked the Camino again, but this time through southern Belgium and most of France. I wrote a book about that adventure too: Beyond Even the Stars. Both are available here on Amazon. Now I am back home in Spokane and serving as pastor of Sacred Heart Parish. I live in my folks' little house on the North side of town with my Yorkie, Erasmus ("Razzie").