Andrew Lee Sullivan
From 1979 to 2007, Andrew Lee Sullivan served as a member of Miles Jesu, an international entity of consecrated life in the Catholic Church based in Rome, Italy. During those years, at various times, he served as the Vocations Director, Capital Campaign Director, Provincial of Eastern Europe, and General Secretary of the Institute.
From 1995 to 2001, he pursued studies in Rome, Italy. After receiving BA degrees in philosophy and theology at the Santa Croce, he was ordained a Catholic priest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 2007, Father Sullivan submitted eighty-nine pages of sworn testimony to the Vicariate of Rome and the Vatican. He gave testimony of his emotional retardation and unfitness for ministry and his traumatic condition of suffering in a cult environment. A Vatican-directed investigation confirmed Sullivan’s testimony.
In 2007, Father Sullivan subsequently, voluntarily asked for a laicization from Pope Benedict XVI and promptly received it in 2008. He soon moved to Ukraine, where he eventually married in the Greek Catholic Ukrainian Church.
In 2010, after living twenty years in Europe, Andrew Sullivan, along with his wife and first child, moved to Phoenix, Arizona. At forty-nine years old he quickly acquired his first salaried job in life as a hospice chaplain and bereavement coordinator. By 2011, he and his wife had their second child. That made a family of four: Dad and Mom, Andrew Nicholas, and Michael Daniel.
From 2010 to 2022, Andrew Sullivan excelled in hospice work. He worked full days and often nights while on call for emergencies. During those years, he served as the chairman of a hospice ethics committee and certified grief recovery specialist. Andrew Sullivan received a national award for hospice chaplaincy.
During these hospice years, he completed an estimated 4,500 spiritual care visits with terminally ill patients in hospitals, healthcare facilities, and group homes in the Phoenix Valley. More or less, 60 % of his patients were Protestant and 40% Catholic. Throughout the years, nearly two hundred times, this laicized priest administered either the sacrament of confession or last rites for dying patients, as specifically allowed in his rescript from Rome.
In 2016, Andrew Sullivan self-published his 265-page memoir, Vatican Intervention, on Amazon. This is a novel-style testimony of his struggle with emotional retardation while living in a cult environment. It’s also about his life-changing discovery of intimate prayer that made him grow up emotionally and empowered him to seek the Vatican’s help in his rescue.
In 2022, he self-published a 59-page booklet entitled How to Pray, also on the Amazon platform. It’s a quick-read, candid sharing of how Jesus taught him to pray with the help of the imagination. The book offers practical instructions on how to nurture intimacy with Jesus in the world of private prayer.
In 2022, by the year’s end, as directed by Jesus in prayer, Andrew resigned from hospice to write Ancient Bible Context. Walking in faith, he and his family lived by dependence on the providence of God. This book was published on January 1, 2024.
