Welcome to all you internet explores. This is Fr. Miles' Web Site. You are fortunate to be here as we have something for everyone!
About Fr. Miles
Miles O'Brien Riley grew up with talented parents and six creative brothers and sisters. Together they performed family skits, played musical instruments, wrote poetry and songs. As a boy, Miles read children's parts on Saturday morning radio. At school, he participated in plays and edited and wrote for high school and college publications.
Father Miles completed his doctoral studies in theology at the Gregorian University in Rome and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He studied communications at Stanford, Notre Dame, Loyola of New Orleans and the University of San Francisco and received a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Fr. Miles was ordained at the North American College in Rome in 1963.
Fr. Miles served as associate pastor at St. Bartholomew's in San Mateo, St. Raphael's in San Rafael, and St. Paul's in San Francisco. In 1970 he founded the Communications Center for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Since 1970 Father Miles' main ministry has been the mass media. He has written and directed five musical comedies, published ten books and hundreds of articles. He has produced a dozen films and hosted over 1300 television programs. He has received three Emmys and ten national Gabriel Awards for outstanding radio and TV productions.
During his 30 years of media ministry, Fr. Miles has conducted communication training workshops throughout the United States and in 50 countries worldwide.
After 50 glorious years, Fr. Miles will retire from the Archdiocese on his 65th birthday, in order to give retreats and spirituality workshops nationally. Please keep him in your prayers.
CD
Alcazar Studios has just released Fr. Miles' latest 65 minute audio CD called "Love, It's an Inside Job."
Books
Fr. Miles has written a very special book on preparing for marrage.
Preparing for Marriage : An Excellent Practical Preparation for Couples Getting Ready to Say I Do. Its out-of-print but maybe you can find one on Amazon.com at the link above.
Tell the Truth with Kindness -- by Fr. Miles O’Brien Riley, PhD
Perfect Page Publishing, P.O. Box 1963, Orinda, CA 94563
Misc
Fr. Miles celebrated the wedding of Jennifer Ruddock and Harry How III on June 2, 2002 at The Assumption Church in Morristown New Jersey. See some pictures.
