Fr. Jim Harbaugh, S.J.,
Former Pastor of St. Therese Parish

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Career Biography

Fr. Jim Harbaugh, S.J., was appointed by Archbishop Alex Brunett as Pastor of St. Therese, effective July 1, 2004.  His service as Pastor of St. Therese ended on June 30, 2007.  He had previously served as Priest Administrator at St. Therese on April 21, 2003, when former pastor Fr. Paul Magnano was assigned full-time as the Archdiocese’s Vicar for Clergy. Father Harbaugh, who has assisted at St. Therese since 1996 and joined the staff full-time in July 2002, was ordained in 1976 and has been a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) since 1963. He has a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Chicago. Before joining the St. Therese staff full-time, he taught for nine years in the Addiction Studies Program (one of the oldest in the world) at Seattle University. He was also Scholar in Residence for three years at S.U.’s Law School, where he specialized in Values and Social Justice.

Father Harbaugh has been a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor in the state of Washington and is the author of two books of 12 Step meditations, A 12 Step Approach to the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (Sheed and Ward, 1997) and A 12 Step Approach to the Sunday Readings (Sheed and Ward, 2002) as well as a textbook on spirituality and addictions counseling, A Great, Clean Wind (in MS). He is the co-author, with his brother and his sister-in-law, of a book of reflections for grandparents, Second Helpings (2001).

Last Update: July 7, 2007