Our Priests
Meet Father John Norman
Fr. John Norman, Pastor, grew up in Papillion, Nebraska as a member of St. Columbkille Parish. He is the second oldest child of Joseph and Joan Norman. He has an older brother, Dan, and two younger sisters, Chris and Kay. He attended St. Columbkille Catholic School through eighth grade and graduated from Papillion La Vista High School in 2005. Joining St. John Vianney College Seminary at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN after high school, he received a BA degree in Philosophy and Catholic Studies in 2009. He went to the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy for graduate studies. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Omaha in June 2013.
Pastoral Assignments · Associate Pastor, Mary Our Queen, Omaha (Summer 2013) · Further Graduate Studies for the 2013-2014 School Year · Associate Pastor, Christ the King, Omaha (2014-2016) · Associate Pastor, St. Patrick, Elkhorn (2016-2017) · Pastor, St. Peter de Alcantara, Ewing * St. Theresa, Clearwater * St. John the Baptist, Deloit (2017-2019) · Pastor, Catholic Parishes in Partnership: St. Bonaventure, Raeville * St. Boniface, Elgin * St. John the Baptist, Deloit * St. John the Baptist, Petersburg * St. Peter de Alcantara, Ewing * St. Theresa, Clearwater * President, Pope John Central Catholic (2019-present)
Meet Father Frank Baumert
Father Frank Baumert has been a priest since 1978. His favorite part of being a priest is that no two days are alike. He finds that moving from one parish to another is an adventure. Father Frank has been in all fifty states, seven Canadian provinces, and about 25 other countries around the world. He even got to kayak on the Sea of Galilee!
We are very happy to welcome Father Frank Baumert to our Family of Parishes.
Here are some words from Father Frank:
To help you review your history, I was pastor of St. Francis of Assisi in Neligh and St. Theresa of Avila in Clearwater from 1993-1998. I was pastor in St. Michaels in Albion from 1998-2005, but it was only the last five years of that in which I was also pastor of St. John the Baptist in Petersburg. Since then, I have worked for seven years at Holy Name Parish in Omaha, with two of those years also being pastor at St. Richards Parish. Then I spent seven years at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Omaha. Since then, I have been with St. Thomas the More Parish for five years and the last four of those with St. Joan of Arc Parish. Since I was ordained a deacon in 1977, I have worked in 18 parishes and six hospitals. Now I am adding five more parishes and repeating three parishes to my record-breaking list. It is not that I can’t hold a job. Well, maybe it is. I don’t know. Basically, I just go wherever the archbishop sends me and have usually had a couple jobs at the same time. This should make it easy for me to step into an eight-parish family.
If you follow the Archdiocesan listing of priests, you may have been under the impression that I was recently retired. According to the archbishop I was officially retired. I had a hard time believing that. For the past few years, I was the only Catholic priest on-call for the Omaha Police Department. I have been the chaplain for the Serra Club of West Omaha, which kept me busy about 15 hours a month. I was at Bergan Hospital about six hours a week and basically on call for them 24/7. I was on call for the University of Nebraska Medical Center two days a week. As some of you may have noticed I did the Mass for shut-ins once in a while. So apart from the regular duties at St. Thomas More and St. Joan of Arc parishes, for which I was doing about 40 funerals a year; I guess I was retired.
That should fill you in a little of what I have been doing for a living. For fun, I still played singles tennis once a week and worked as a chaplain on cruise ships for my vacations. I can’t wait to find out what you have all been doing in these past years. We have a lot of catching up to do. It is good to be back in the neighborhood.
In case you are wondering, I still go by Fr. Frank to protect my innocent relatives.
God bless you all,
Fr. Frank Baumert