He was married in 1977 in an interfaith ceremony in Niagara Falls, New York, presided by Paul Fodor, the Hungarian Holocaust survivor and author.

Schenck became director of the Empire State Teen Challenge center, a faith-based residential treatment program for persons with "life-controlling problems" such as substance use and abuse, antisocial behaviors, criminal conduct, and relational conflicts.

Admitted to priesthood through the Pastoral Provision of the Catholic Church by Pope Benedict XVI, he is a chaplain with faculties from the Archdiocese for the Military Services.

He received a master's degree in Catholic health care ethics from the Bioethics Institute at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, CT.

Victor Galeone, Bishop of St. Augustine (FL) and is endorsed and holds faculties with the Archdiocese for the Military Services.

In 2019 ProQuest published his research in the experience and operation of empathy based on the theoretical work of Edith Stein, Saint Theresa Benedicta a Croce.