Career
He was ordained in 1980, and teaches at the University of Saint Thomas (Street Paul, Minnesota), at the University of Notre Dame, and summer courses at the Saint John"s School of Theology - Seminary (Collegeville, Minnesota). Michael Joncas"s compositions are representative of the more popular style of music that has appeared in American Catholic parishes in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Michael Joncas is one of many musicians who compose contemporary Catholic liturgical music