Dcn. Tony was born and raised in Milford, MA. He earned an A.B. in Political Science from Boston College in 1988 and a J.D. from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1991. He also holds an M.A. in Theology from St. Leo University. Since 2008 he has worked for the University of Virginia in the construction department. Prior to that he worked in law publishing for 26 years. He is admitted to practice law in both MA and DC. He was ordained a permanent deacon on September 15, 2018 and is assigned to St. Thomas Aquinas.