Father Tom Euteneuer
Board Advisor
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer (pronounced EYE-ten-our) is president of Human Life International. Fr. Euteneuer was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1962, the third of six children born to Joseph and Marian Euteneuer. Fr. Euteneuer has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, as well as a licentiate degree in biblical theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He speaks Spanish and Italian, as well.
While in college, Fr. Euteneuer participated in the Marine Corps Officer Candidate Program and attended boot camp at Quantico, Va. After discerning that the Lord was calling him to the priesthood rather than the military, he entered the seminary. Since his ordination in 1988, Fr. Euteneuer has served as parish priest in five parishes of the Diocese of Palm Beach, Fla. (where he moved with his family at the age of 10), secretary to the bishop, director of vocations, and spiritual moderator for the diocesan Respect Life office. His pro-life activity began in the early years of his priesthood with prayer vigils and pickets at abortion mills, and has included speaking at conferences, sidewalk counseling, and the establishment of a crisis pregnancy center. In July of 2000, Fr. Euteneuer initiated a lawsuit against an abortion clinic in Florida to sue them for violation of his rights as a sidewalk counselor. Acts of intimidation, harassment, obstruction of his work and even two death threats gave him the credentials to take this conscientious step to keep the abortionists at bay while he and his co-workers tried to save babies.
Fr. Euteneuer has also served the pro-life movement by leading numerous pilgrimages to Mexico to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, for whom he has a deep devotion.