Colleen McCahill holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, a Master of Arts in Theology with a concentration in spirituality, and a Master of Arts in Church Ministries, both from St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute, Baltimore. She completed her Chaplain internship and residency years at WellSpan York Hospital in PA, serving principally in the psychiatric units and Emergency Department.  

During and after college, she worked as a theatre artisan and craftsperson. While raising and homeschooling her four children, she worked with pregnant and laboring women and their partners as a childbirth educator and doula. Later, she served at several hospitals as a hospital chaplain.  The sacred encounters of accompanying many others through the challenging threshold experiences of birth and death deepened her faith in God who is with us, and continue to inform her ministry.

For nine years, Colleen has served as the Pastoral Associate for St. Vincent de Paul Church in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. There, she supports the parish life of a community devoted to worship and to service. She loves a variety of travel, from hiking & camping to enjoying art, history, and theatre in many venues; Spain is a favored destination. She lives in Baltimore with her husband of 36 years and two of their sons. Wonderfully, other family (including her parents and her grandbaby) are close-by enough for walks in the woods and cooking fun and tasty meals together.