The Reverend Father Charles John McCloskey III, S.T.D. (1953 – 2023)[1] was a Catholic priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei and member of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross. He was a well-known author and spiritual director and a former director of the Catholic Information Center (CIC) located in the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington.[2] He worked on Wall Street at Citibank and Merrill Lynch for a number of years before becoming a priest. He was ordained in 1981 by Cardinal Roger Etchegaray.