Deacon Doug Lovejoy has been guided by the Holy Spirit in focusing his life on service to the Church, the country and the mission of the USCCA. After graduating from Notre Dame and earning his master's degree from Princeton, Doug served 24 years in the US Army as a China specialist during which he taught Chinese Politics at West Point and Princeton and earned his PhD from the Catholic University of America. His dissertation, “Uncertain Opening,” addressed the impact of foreign relations on the Catholic Church and China in the post-Mao period. He was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Trenton in 2004 and served as executive director of the USCCA (at the time known as the U.S. Catholic China Bureau) from 2003 to 2006. He and his wife Jean have been married for 55 years and they have five children and nine grandchildren. He continues to serve as a deacon in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.