Frank Desiderio

About Frank Desiderio

Frank Desiderio, C.S.P., is a poet, priest, producer, and organizational leader with a career spent working at the intersection of progressive Catholic theology and pastoral communications in multiple mediums. With Master’s degrees in Theology and Communications, Frank has done everything from teaching homiletics to producing documentaries, television movies, and video content for Internet distribution.

Fr. Frank is a poet whose verse has appeared in the Spring Hill Review, Amethyst Magazine, America Magazine (online edition), Presence, Prairie Messenger, As Surely As the Sun, Bread of Life, Gnashing Teeth’s ‘zine, and the anthologies Moving Image: Poetry Inspired by Film, Thin Places & Sacred Spaces and other journals. In 2012, he and his sister, Mimi Moriarty, co-authored the poetry book, “Sibling Reverie” from Finishing Line Press. 

In 2014, he published “Can You Let Go of a Grudge: Learning to Forgive and Get On with Your Life” with Paulist Press. He lives in New York City, where he is a full-time poet who publishes two original poems weekly at Holy Poetry on Substack: https://holipoetry.substack.com.

In 2006, Desiderio was chaplain at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY.  He has participated in poetry workshops and retreats in Los Angeles, Boston and New York. He has also led retreats on preaching and poetry.