Scott McCarthy

Fr. Scott McCarthy, DMin, celebrating forty years of pastoral ministry as a Catholic priest in the central California Diocese of Monterey, has experienced a variety of multicultural parochial settings. His travels have taken him to Europe ad most of North America, but lately he concentrates his free time visiting tribes in Central and South America, learning their ways and offering spiritual counseling as needed. He is author of Celebrating the Earth: An Earth-Centered Theology of Worship with Blessings, Prayers, and Rituals; All One: A Handbook of Ecumenical and Interfaith Worship; People of the Circle, People of the Four Directions; and Sacraments and Shamans: A Priest Journeys Among Native Peoples. Many years ago he was also adopted by a family of the Apsaalooke (Crow) Tribe of Montana.