
About Us

Welcome to the web home of Saint Charles Borromeo Roman Catholic Church of Ashland, Pennsylvania. We are a parish of the Catholic Diocese of Allentown. Our parish serves the residents of Ashland, Girardville, and the surrounding communities as well as friends, visiting relatives, guests and travelers. Our parishioners strive to maintain the strong Catholic identity and cultural traditions established in our churches, while continuing to build a vibrant and spiritual community for the 21st century and beyond.
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Visitors to our churches, Catholics from other parishes or those of other religions, are welcome to attend Holy Mass at any of our churches (we ask that only Catholics who are prepared to do so, receive Holy Communion). Anyone interested in joining our parish is welcome to contact the parish office for more information.

Rev. Guency Isaac
Parochial Administrator
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Fr. Guency comes to us from being Chaplain at Notre Dame High School, Easton and Sacramental Ministry, Lafayette College, Easton. He graduated from Notre Dame Major Seminary of Port-au-Prince, Haiti with a Bachelor's degree in Sacred Theology in 2005. He served as a Parochial Vicar for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hinche, Haiti from September 2005 to June 2008. He served as a Parochial Vicar at St Jane Frances de Chantale in Easton, PA from June 2021 to the present, and previously as a Parochial Vicar at St Ignatius Loyola Parish in Sinking Spring, PA from September 2016 to June 2021.
Deacon John Sutter
Permanent Deacon
Deacon Sutter is married to Kim, has four children and four grandchildren. He lives in Schuylkill Haven and is from St. Patrick Church in Pottsville. Deacon Sutter was ordained September 14, 2024.
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"I felt called to be a deacon after I retired from teaching special education in 2014 and began reading Catholic books that I had wanted to read but hadn’t had the time. I discussed becoming a deacon with my pastor who told me that there was no deacon class starting at the time. In 2017, there was an information night about a new deacon class, but the announcement about it was never put in our bulletin, so I didn’t attend it. Later, the deacon at St. John the Baptist Church in Pottsville told me that he was disappointed that my name was not on the list for the new class. I told him that I didn’t know anything about the information meeting. He called the diaconate office and was able to get me an application. I was accepted into the program, and after a couple months of formation meetings I mentioned to another man in the program that I thought I must be the oldest man in the class. He said that when he went to the information session, they were told that no one over the age of 60 was being considered. I was 62 at the time, and if I had gone to that first information night I never would have applied. It just seemed as though it was meant to be."

Shannon Butler
Business Manager - St. Charles Borromeo, Ashland & St. Patrick Church, Pottsville
Shannon has been with St. Charles since March 2017. She attended McCann School of Business and obtained an Associates Degreee in Paralegal. She then went on to Alvernia University where she obtained her Bachelor's in Business Administration. Shannon is married and has 5 children that keep her very busy.
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Janet Paulukonis
Parish Secretary
Jan is married and has a daughter. She is a member of St. Charles Borromeo and is also a Lector and a Eucharistic Minister.