He is president and founder of Ignatius Productions and the senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
[1] Pacwa completed high school at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in 1967 with the intention of becoming a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
[2] He decided that he wanted to be a Jesuit in high school and was accepted after his freshman year at Loyola University Chicago.
He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology from University of Detroit Mercy and was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1976.
[3] He is an accomplished linguist, speaking several ancient languages including Latin, Koine Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ugaritic, as well as the modern languages of English, German, Spanish, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Italian.