Mercy in Action | Fr. Linus Clovis

Father Linus Clovis is a priest of the Archdiocese of Castries, St Lucia, in the West Indies. He studied for the priesthood at the Angelicum in Rome and was ordained in 1983 by Saint John Paul II.
Father Clovis is a qualified teacher and holds a doctorate in Mathematics, and degrees in Theology, Canon Law and Latin Literature. He has served as dean of the Arts, Science and General Studies Faculty of the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College and for seven years was the principal of St Mary's College, St Lucia.
He is the archdiocesan spiritual director of the Legion of Mary in St Lucia, through which he promotes devotion to Our Lady, especially that of the Rosary, the Perpetual Help novena, and the First Friday and First Saturday devotions. Additionally, he has led outreaches to the neighbouring islands, and annual pilgrimages to Marian shrines in over fourteen different countries.
He is the spiritual director of Family Life International and a versatile speaker on pro-life issues, Scripture, Mariology and on Catholic teaching in general. Not only has he many talks and homilies on CD and online, he has made literary contributions to newspapers and international magazines and has published a book
entitled A Biblical Search for the Church Christ Founded.
He is currently the Director of the Secretariat for Family and Life in the Archdiocese of Castries, which works toward reestablishing family and family life on solid Christian principles in St Lucia. In 2003, Father Clovis led the resistance to the St Lucia Government's surreptitious legalization of abortion in his Catholic island and even
refused Holy Communion to the head of state for having signed abortion into law.
Father Clovis is the eldest of five brothers who are all active in the pro-life apostolate.