Paul Schenck

Paul Chaim Benedicta Schenck (born 1958) is an American ordained Catholic priest, pro-life (anti-abortion) activist and personalist. He is active in ministries in Washington, D.C., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Annapolis, Maryland.

Schenck was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. He has an identical twin brother, Robert, with whom he was raised in Grand Island, New York. His father was born Jewish and his mother converted to Judaism. He and his brother attended Beth El Hebrew School in nearby Niagara Falls. Schenck was baptized in the evangelical and Anglican Christian tradition when he was 16 years old. He was married in 1977. While attending bible college, he was youth minister on Grand Island, New York, and an assistant pastor and pastor in the Town of Tonawanda, New York. Schenck founded the New Covenant Tabernacle Church in Tonawanda in 1982. Under his direction it grew to be one of the largest, most influential community churches in Western New York. After 12 years as Senior Pastor he stepped down and served as Minister of the Word until his resignation in 1994 and moved to Hampton Roads, Virginia.

Between 1989 and 1994 Schenck and his brother Robert, with Rev. Johnny Hunter and Dr. Karen Swallow Prior, led Project Rescue, a pro-life activist that was involved in public demonstrations, media, public policy advocacy, education and legal challenges.

After joining the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1994, he was vicar of a mission in Virginia Beach, Virginia and later rector of a parish in Catonsville, Maryland. Between 1994 and 1997 Schenck was executive vice president of the American Center for Law & Justice, a public interest law firm then headed by Deacon Keith Fournier and Attorney Jay Alan Sekulow. Robert moved to Washington, DC and later joined the Evangelical Church Alliance.

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