Jon M. Sweeney

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jon M. Sweeney
Date Of Birth	Jul 18, 1967(1967-07-18)
Age	57
Birthplace	St. Charles
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Cancer

Jon M. Sweeney Biography

Jon M. Sweeney is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 18, 1967 in St. Charles, Illinois, United States. The many books written by Sweeney about Francis of Assisi are centered around dispelling myths that he believes continue to persist from novels and films in the 60s and 70s like images of the “hippie” Francis that endures from “Brother Sun, Sister Moon,” Franco Zeffirelli’s 1972 film.

He was a student at the Moody Bible Institute for one year, and later transferred onto Wheaton College where he majored in philosophy and Medieval studies. He graduated in 1989. While at Wheaton the college, he worked as an assistant to the teacher in the philosophy department as well as a research assistant to the philosophy department’s chairman, Arthur F. Holmes who was one of the two professors who wrote his book The complete Francis of Assisi. In a subsequent conversation by The Irish Catholic, he discusses his college pursuits: “Going back to my college days, I was a medieval history major, so I was very interested in the time period, and I think that was because I always saw it as a period in history that unified Christians of all backgrounds. It is the period of time before all the splits came into the Church so I always found that appealing. The more often one could go back to those figures or those stories and retell them or re-imagine them, I thought, the better.”

Sweeney’s involvement and collaboration with other writers goes back many years. At the 2006 Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Michigan, he interviewed poet and memoirist Mary Karr on the main stage. Two years later at the same venue, he interviewed Mary Gordon. In early 2017, he interviewed novelist Marilynne Robinson for The Tablet in the UK.

While at Moody, Sweeney arranged to serve as a summer missionary in Batangas City, The Philippines, an experience that he later wrote about in his memoir, Born Again and Again. Sweeney grew up intent on becoming an evangelical pastor, but practiced as an Episcopalian for 21 years of his adult life and converted to Catholicism in 2009. Today he keeps a Jewish home with his wife, a rabbi, although still practices and identifies as a Catholic.

Sweeney was a student at Carl Sandburg Elementary School, Monroe Junior High (now Monroe Middle School) as well as Wheaton Christian High School (now Wheaton Academy), where one of his closest acquaintances was U.S. House of Representatives member Randy Hultgren. He graduated from high school in the year 1985.

Jon M. Sweeney Net Worth

Jon M. Sweeney is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jon M. Sweeney 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sweeney was born the 18th of July 1967, in St. Charles, Illinois. When Sweeney was born, birth his father Mark Sweeney was the youth pastor at the First Baptist Church in Wheaton, Illinois and mother Janet resided at home with his younger brother Douglas (born in July of 1965). After his birth Sweeney’s family moved to Oregon and his parents were wedding in 1964. They returned home in Wheaton in 1969, and Sweeney lived there until his time at college. Sweeney is featured within the publication Legendary Locals of Wheaton, written by Keith Call.

Jon M. Sweeney (born July 18th 1967) is the author of popular spirituality, history and poetry, as well as biography and fiction for children and memoir. His most frequently-cited topics are Catholic and specifically St. Francis of Assisi who is the subject of his books. Sweeney is the author of The St. Francis Prayer Book, Francis of Assisi in His own Words The Day Saint Francis saved the Church, The Complete Francis of Assisi as well as The Enthusiast, a biography that Richard Rohr calls “An immense and important contribution to our understanding of the great saint.” HBO granted the rights to film The Pope Who Quit, Sweeney’s historical retelling about the 13th century pope Celestine V which was the very first pope ever to accept a resignation. Recently, a novel of short stories for children, The Pope’s Cat, was created and the first installment was came out on March 1st of 2018, the day prior to the fifth anniversary of the pope’s papacy. Pope Francis. Sweeney has also written a biography of the well-known as well as notorious Jesuit, James Martin (priest born 1960). Sweeney is interviewed by CBS News, WGN-TV, Fox News, and WTTW’s Chicago Tonight. He was in CBS Sunday Morning to talk about Saint Patrick on 17 March 2013. Sweeney is an independent scholar who speaks often and conducts retreats. Sweeney has also been named the Editor and Publisher for Paraclete Press of Brewster, Massaschuetts.

Sweeney began his career as a bookseller, first in Chicago, and then managing a theological bookstore in Central Square, Cambridge, MA, Divinitas Books. He saw his first works published at this time, poems and book reviews, in small journals including The Merton Seasonal, which was then edited by Robert Daggy. From bookselling he became a trade sales representative for Augsburg Fortress Publishing, traveling a seven-state territory in the Southeastern U.S. When promoted to trade sales manager two years later he moved his family to Minneapolis. Leaving there in 1997, Sweeney moved to Vermont to join the “Ben & Jerry’s of religious publishing,” Jewish Lights Publishing. After seven years as vice-president of marketing and sales at Jewish Lights Publishing in Woodstock, Vermont, and co-founding SkyLight Paths Publishing, also in Woodstock, Vermont, as its associate publisher and editor-in-chief, Sweeney became editor-in-chief and publisher at Paraclete Press in 2004, in Orleans, Massachusetts. He left there in 2015. After working at Franciscan Media as editorial director for one year, he became executive editor for trade books at Ave Maria Press in Notre Dame, Indiana. Today, he is both consulting editor- at-large for Ave Maria, and once again, publisher and editor-in-chief at Paraclete.

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In a 2016 interview for The Irish Catholic magazine, Mags Gargan describes The Enthusiast: “Blending history and biography, Sweeney’s book reveals how Francis and Elias rebuilt churches, aided lepers and entertained as ‘God’s troubadours’ to the delight of the ordinary people who had grown tired of a remote and turbulent Church.” She goes on to ask Jon about the background of the book and his personal interest in St. Francis of Assisi.

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In December 2016 Sweeney was elected to the board of the Catholic Publishers Association. As an editor and publisher, he has worked with authors such as Jean Vanier, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, Andrew Harvey, Lawrence Kushner, Ronald Rolheiser, M. Basil Pennington, Brother Wayne Teasdale, and John Michael Talbot. He also serves on the governing board of The Lux Center for Jewish- Christian Studies, located on the campus of Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology, serving greater Milwaukee.