Fr. Schiller Reads from the Bible at the Funeral of Glenn Cunningham
Rev. Francis Schiller posseses the rare ability of being able both to give and get from Caesar. Fr. Schiller is a thread that has traced through the labyrinth of Hudson County Politics for some four decades. Francis Schiller was seen as the intellectual generator powering the organization — and subsequent administration — of Dr. Paul Jordan.
Rev. Schiller was ordained in 1965 at Immaculate Conception Seminary. Starting in 1969, he is a member of the Team Ministry of Saint Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Jersey City and Assumption / All Saints Roman Catholic Parish since 1994.
Francis Schiller ran Patrick House, a Jersey City methadone clinic from 1971 to 1972, from 1973 to 1978 was executive director of the Community Drug & Alcohol Program of Hudson County, and between 1975 and 1980 was executive director of the Jersey City Community Help Corp.
2000 to 2001, Rev. Francis Schiller was a member of the New Jersey Athletic Control Board. In 2001, Acting Governor Donald T. DiFrancesco appointed Rev. Schiller to the State Commission of Investigation.
Rev. Francis Schiller is a graduate of Seton Hall University and Seton Hall Law School. From 1999 to 2001, he was a member of the Seton Hall University Self-Study Committee. Francis Schiller also studied at the New School for Social Research.
A former partner in the firm of Schiller, Squeo & Hartnett, Jersey City, Francis Schiller now is an attorney at the Jersey City office of Connell Foley. Rev. Francis Schiller’s practice areas are Corporate Law and Transactions and Real Estate Law and Land Use.
DEAR FR. FRANCIS SCHILLER,
BY ANY CHANCE DID YOU LIVE IN SCOTCHPLAINS, NEW JERSEY ACROSS FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL? I LIVED ON PORTLAND AVE. RIGHT BEHIND A FRIEND I PLAYED WITH BY THE NAME OF FRANCIS SCHILLER. FRANCIS LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER AND FATHER AND TWO BROTHERS AND HAD A UNCLE WHO WAS A PRIESTS THAT WOULD VISIT. YEARS AFTER MOVING I HAD HEARD THAT MY FRIEND FRANCIS HAD BECOME A PRIEST. JUST WONDERING IF IT COULD POSSIBLE BE YOU AND IF NOT PERHAPS YOU KNOW WHO HE IS. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
BILL BORROW
Bill: The person you reference is, in fact, my Uncle Francis. He is a priest and continues to live in Jersey City, NJ. My Dad, Eugene (Gene) Schiller, continues to reside in Scotch Plains just blocks from where they grew up.
Fr. Schiller:
It’s been years since we worked together at Patrick House, but you as well as the rest of the staff often come into my thoughts as well as into my converations and presentations. Linda and I have been in the Orlando area of Florida for the past 23 years. Jay is now 40 and has four sons. The next time we are in the area we’ll call to see if we can get together. It’s great to see that you continue to shake up the world and shape it at the same time.
Jim Spratt
father Francis i need some help getting my 4 greatdaghters baptized the parents are not married but i would like to see these girls start there catholic lives. Is there anything you can do
Thank you
Your classmate
Robert(HAWK) Kenny
REV SCHILLER
i have 7 great grandchildren that are not baptized it would an honor GREAT PRIEST AND BUDDY could take of this for me. My friend of many years Bob9-( HAWK) Kenny
fr Francis i hope you are well in these trying times
Bob Kenny robertkenny@comcast.net
ROBERTKENNY@COMCAST.NET
Dear Fr Schiller, I think you married me and my husband in 1967. He passed away last year. We almost made 52 years with four children and six grandchildren.
I never forgot your name. Blessings, Nora
Also you were a friend of Fr Edward Bones.
Yes Fr I knew the Bones family
fr Francis i hope you are well in these trying times
Bob Kenny robertkenny@comcast.net
How is Mike Kelly doing