Aloysius Philip Schwartz (September 18, 1930 – March 16, 1992), known as Father Al, was an American Catholic priest who ran social service programs for thousands of orphans in South Korea, the Philippines and Mexico.

Starting with few financial resources, he founded the Sisters of Mary of Banneux and the Brothers of Christ religious orders in South Korea and established numerous homes and schools for orphaned or neglected children.

[1] After receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from Maryknoll, Schwartz applied to and was accepted by the Society of the Auxiliaries of the Missions (SAM), a religious institute in Belgium that prepared priests for missionary work in Africa in Asia.

He was ordained as a diocesan priest on June 29, 1957, at St. Martin de Tours Church in Washington by Auxiliary Bishop John McNamara.

After his ordination, Schwartz petitioned Bishop John A. Choi Jae-seon, the vicar apostolic of the Diocese of Busan, for permission to work there.

To provide teachers and health care workers for the poor, Schwartz founded the religious congregation of the Sisters of Mary in 1964 in Seoul.

He met Cardinal Jaime Sin, then Archbishop of Manila, who invited him to bring his religious community to aid the poor in the archdiocese.

The Sisters of Mary and the Brothers of Christ serve the poor in Korea, the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Honduras, and Tanzania.

More than 170,000 impoverished children have graduated from their boarding schools and are now gainfully-employed, others become successful in their own businesses and some have become priests and religious following the example of Venerable The cause of beatification for Schwartz opened at the Manila Cathedral on December 10, 2003.

On May 29, 2004, at the Sisters of Mary Girlstown Complex in Cavite, Auxiliary Bishop Socrates B. Villegas declared the beatification process of Schwartz to be closed.

On October 6, 2012, the Positio Super Vita Virtutibus et Fama Sanctitatis for Schwartz was submitted to Cardinal Angelo Amato, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome.