Leonard Wathen is the Director of Religious Education at St. Aloysius Church. He holds a master's degree in theology from Christendom College and an Advanced Apostolic Catechetical Diploma from the Holy See. He is the author of three books - Who Do You Say That I Am?: Scriptural Reflections on Becoming a Disciple of Jesus, Follow Me: Scriptural Reflections on Living as a Disciple of Jesus, and Remain in Me: Scriptural Reflections on Growing as a Disciple of Jesus. Leonard is a Secular Carmelite in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secular Community in Port Tobacco, Maryland.

Leonard and his wife, Nicole are natives of St. Mary's County and live in Callaway with their four children.