Darrin Merlino

Fr. Darrin Merlino is a Claretian Missionary priest living in L.A. His ordination in the year 2000 was the first ever in U.S. history to be broadcast live via the internet. He's been an award-winning high-school teacher (Mary Star of the Sea, San Pedro, CA), associate pastor, and youth minister, and, for five years, the highly successful pastor at Sacred Heart Church in Prescott, Arizona. Now Fr. Merlino is following his original calling to the priesthood, evangelizing through the media, as co-founder of Catholic Media Missionaries, the host of the series, "Hound of Heaven", and author of his debut book, "30 Days Unplugged: How A Catholic Priest Turned Off His iPhone And Took A Call From God."