Fr. Mathew Kessler graduated from Wichita State University with a degree in physics before joining the Redemptorists in 1987. He has served as a parish priest and mission preacher, and as managing editor of the Liguori Publications Spanish imprint, Libros Liguori. He then served as President/Publisher from 2006 until the summer of 2013 and was elected Provincial Vicar for the Denver Province of the Redemptorist order in 2014.