Arturo J. Bañuelas

Msgr. Arturo J. Bañuelas, a native of El Paso, Texas is currently the pastor of St. Mark’s Parish in that diocese. Formerly he served as pastor of St. Pius X, which was identified as an outstanding parish in the national survey by Paul Wilkes in Excellent Catholic Parishes (Paulist Press, 2000). After earning his doctorate from the Gregorian University in Rome, in 1988 he was the founding director of the Tepeyac Institute, a diocesan ministry formation center. The Institute is one of the largest in the nation training laity for parish ministry, and is distinctive with its formation shaped by the reality of the border. Bañuelas has been widely recognized and honored for his advocacy on behalf of farmworkers, immigrants and for his work on issues of life and justice at the border. He is a popular speaker and teacher who addresses topics of theology, faith and politics with various civic, academic, religious, pastoral and health organizations.  Bañuelas has founded a number of initiatives in theology, ministry and border activism over the past forty years. He was a co-founder of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS) and most recently established the Hope Border Institute, which focuses on justice issues in the three border dioceses of El Paso, Texas, Las Cruces, New Mexico and Juarez, Mexico.

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