Fr. Frank is currently a full-time itinerent preacher conducting parish missions and retreats.  He has a B.S. degree from Bowling Green State University, M.Ed. from the University of Cincinnati, M.Div./S.T.B. from the Dominican House of Studies, as well as, complementary studies in African culture, Mary knoll Language certification in Swahili, and Russian language studies with faculty of the Moscow State and Saint Petersburg State Universities in the Russian Federation.

            Fr. Frank was an officer in the United States Army Infantry, teacher of the handicapped in Virginia, Chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and Associate Pastor at Saint Dominic Parish in Youngstown, Ohio.  For eleven years Father worked overseas, first as the Senior Lecturer and Registrar at Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya teaching public speaking, homiletic and comparative religion.  Then in 1995, he was assigned to be the Dominican superior in Saint Petersburg, Russia.  During that period, Fr. Frank was also the Professor of Homiletics, Mary Queen of Apostles Seminary, Saint Petersburg, Russia; the Chairman of the Archbishop’s Commission on Catechetic for European Russia, and a member of the Commission on Catechetic for the Bishop’s Conference of Russia.  He has traveled extensively throughout Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Africa, the Mediterranean and Scandinavia.  His interests include Russian language, literature and poetry; early English Opera, and calligraphy.