Fr. George E. Schultze, SJ, is a retreat director at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Jerusalem and an adjunct faculty member and spiritual director at the Latin Patriarchate Seminary in Beit Jala, Palestine. He also provides pastoral ministry to Filipino and Indian migrant workers in the Holy Land and assists the Gaza Project at Holy Family Parish. He studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell, completed an MBA at UC Berkeley, and received a Ph.D. in social ethics at USC. He has taught theology, philosophy, and Catholic social teaching. He has also written for the Catholic World Report, Seminary Journal, Career Development International Journal, Social Policy, and Logos: A Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Culture.

Father George directs men’s and women’s religious communities, seminarians, parishioners, and the laity in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. His lifelong interest in work led him to focus on spiritual discernment to promote good career choices, healthy work attitudes, and faithful marriage and family decisions. He is an avid reader, runner, exerciser, and outdoorsman.