Fr. Crosby is a member of the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph and Director of St. Anthony Retreat Center in Marathon, Wisconsin. Ordained in 1964, his life has been enriched by a variety of ministries and cultures, from college campus ministry and teaching to pastoring inner city and reservation parishes. After ordination, he did post-graduate work at St. Paul's University in Ottawa and earned a licentiate in theology as well as a Masters in Theology. Fr. Crosby spent three more years of post-graduate work at the Institute of Formative Spirituality at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh where he earned another Masters in Religion and Personality. For ten years he taught theology and spirituality in Indiana and Wisconsin and spent eighteen years ministering to the poor in inner-city Milwaukee as well as Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Wherever he has ministered, Fr. Crosby has worked to integrate scripture as well as the Franciscan vision into his life and preaching. He has been a spiritual director and well-received retreat master throughout the country.