Fr. Tony Rauschuber, S.J., Director
He grew up in the kolache capital of central Texas, the City of West. He graduated from Texas A & M University, completing a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. He worked 11 years in sales and marketing positions in Dallas and Houston before entering the Society of Jesus in 1995. He studied philosophy at Loyola University Chicago and completed a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California. Fr. Tony was ordained a priest in 2005 at Immaculate Conception Church in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Fr. Tony’s first assignment after ordination was to a Jesuit-sponsored elementary and middle-school, Good Shepherd in New Orleans. There, he taught religion and math, and was assistant principal. He moved to Manresa House of Retreats in Convent, Louisiana in June of 2009, where he preached retreats and directed individual private retreats. Fr. Tony moved to Houston in 2015 where he became superior of the Houston Jesuit Community and worked in Strake Jesuit campus ministry and at Cristo Rey Jesuit in Ignatian Identity formation of faculty, staff, and trustees. Fr. Tony’s ministry experience includes prison ministry, hospital chaplaincy, and RCIA formation.