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Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (Berkeley campus)Volume 7, Number 2, Fall 2012

Bridging Theology and the Cultures of the World

ALSO: WOmen Of WiSdOm & ActiOn neW deAn neW St. PAtrick’S PAStOr

Vatican II at 50

Bridge Bridging Theology and the Cultures of the WorldJesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (Berkeley campus)

Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 2012

The Bridge is the semi-annual magazine of the Jesuit School of Theology.

The Jesuit School is a theological school faithful to the intellectual tradition and the apostolic priority of the Society of Jesus: reverent and critical service of the faith that does justice. The Jesuit School achieves its mission through the academic, pastoral and personal formation of Jesuits and other candi dates for ministry, ordained and lay, in the Roman Catholic Church. The Development Department produces the Bridge.

Editor: Catherine M. Kelly dESiGN ANd LAYoUt: Molly McCoy

PhotoGrAPhEr: Carlo Perez

BoArd oF dirECtorS William J. BarkettThomas E. BertelsenBetsy BlissLouis M. CastruccioPaul G. Crowley, S.J.Most Rev. John S. CumminsRev. Virgilio P. ElizondoMichael E. Engh, S.J.Katherine R. EnrightMaureen A. Fay, O.P. John D. FeerickLeo J. Hindery, Jr.

Jesuit School of Theology 1735 LeRoy Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94709 Tel: 510-549-5000, www.scu.edu/jst

Loretta Holstein Mark Lewis, S.J.Most Rev. Robert W. McElroyJohn P. McGarry, S.J. Edison H. MiyawakiJohn NicolaiStanley RaggioD. Paul ReganMartin J. SkripThomas H. Smolich, S.J.Michael Tyrrell, S.J.Most Rev. Michael F. Weiler, S.J.

ContentsFEAtUrES

New dean Massaro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Women of Wisdom & Action . . . . . . 6

Finding a home at St . Patrick’s . . . . . 8

New St . Patrick’s Pastor Quickley . . 9

Vatican ii & Moral theology . . . . . 10

Quinn talk on Communion . . . . . . 12

Vatican ii Lecture Series . . . . . . . . 13

New Faces on Campus . . . . . . . . . 14

Alumnus Gives Back . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Profile in Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Alumni Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Bishops from all over the globe gathering in Rome for the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council as depicted on the Jesuit School of Theology's perfect reproduction of the bell melted in memory of the Council. Photo by Hanh Pham, S.J.

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What is needed at the present time is a new enthusiasm, a new joy and serenity of mind in the unreserved acceptance by all of the entire Christian faith….What is needed, and what everyone imbued with a truly Christian, Catholic and apostolic spirit craves today, is that this doctrine shall be more widely known, more deeply understood, and more penetrating in its effects on [our] moral lives. What is needed is that this certain and immutable doctrine, to which the faithful owe obedience, be studied afresh and reformulated in contemporary terms. For this deposit of faith, or truths which are contained in our time-honored teaching is one thing; the manner in which these truths are set forth (with their meaning preserved intact) is something else. — Pope John XXIII, Address at Opening of Vatican Council II, October 11, 1962

With these words, Pope John XXIII inspired the bishops at the Second Vatican Council. Fifty years later, the Council and its fruits continue to inspire the students and faculty at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST). The Bridge commemorates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Council with the first of a four-part series examining the impact of the Council on various fields of theology. We welcome new dean, Rev. thomas J. Massaro, s.J. and feature his article on the influence of the Council on moral theology and social ethics.

We are at the same time part of a local and a global Church. Serving the local Church, JST announces the renewal of its commitment to St. Patrick’s Parish in West Oakland, CA and welcomes Rev. George Quickley, s.J. as new pastor. Rev. Phil Cooke, s.J. reflects on finding a home at St. Pat’s.

Serving the global Church, JST heralds the launch of the Women of Wisdom & Action initiative, which offers women religious from underserved countries and under-resourced religious communities the opportunity for advanced theological education and leadership training at JST. sr. evelyn Wong, V.D.M.F., describes offering spiritual formation and retreats for women religious in China.

May the Holy Spirit enkindle within us “a new enthusiasm, a new joy and serenity of mind.”

Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006)[email protected]

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prEsidENt’s MEssAGEit iS A PriViLEGE For ME to WELCoME thoMAS MASSAro, S .J . as the new dean at JST and introduce him to the JST community of alumni, donors and friends. After a careful and exhaustive search by the search committee chaired by Tom Bertelsen, chair of the JST Board of Directors, Tom Massaro received unanimous approval from the JST Board of Directors, Vice Chancellor Tom Smolich, S.J, and Chancellor Adolfo Nicolás, S.J. He began his new duties on July 1, 2012.

Some of you may have met Tom and many of you likely have read his work. A regular columnist for America magazine, Tom comes to us from Boston College where he served as Professor of Moral Theology in the School of Theology and Ministry. He is passionate about theological education to which he has been committed for the past 15 years at BC and Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Coming from a school with a very similar profile to that of JST, Tom brings a wealth of experience as a prominent scholar, theologian and author. His recent writing and teaching has focused on Catholic social teaching, religion in public life, and ethical dimensions of the economy. Throughout his work, Tom seeks to maintain a commitment to hands-on social activism. He knows well the landscape of theological education and understands the changing needs of the Church. He has articulated a vision for JST that promotes contextual theology and champions lay and priestly ministerial education. With the strategic planning process nearing completion, Tom will guide the implementation of the school’s priorities and help JST build on its reputation as a leader in theological education.

Finding a new dean to fill the shoes of Kevin Burke, S.J. was no small task. During his time as dean, Kevin saw through the integration of JST as a new school at Santa Clara University. He navigated through the transition and facilitated the convergence of two institutions with different habits, practices and work cultures. Kevin helped the SCU integration team to understand the mission, culture and distinctiveness of JST. In turn, with great care amidst significant change, he guided the JST staff and faculty in becoming part of a larger whole. Kevin has shown concern for individual staff and faculty as well as for the collective health and well-being of the institution. I am indebted to him for seeing the integration through to this point. Please join me in thanking Kevin for his dedicated service as dean.

Let me conclude by asking you to join me in welcoming Tom Massaro to the JST community. At this important juncture in our history, Tom will lead JST in ways that will serve the school, the University, and the Church well. We ask God to bless Tom in his new leadership role and offer our prayers and support for the success of JST.

Michael E. Engh, S.J.PresidentSanta Clara University

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DesCRiBe youR BaCkGRounD.Although I have very positive associations with the Bay Area, I am an East Coast guy all the way — raised in New York City, educated in the Northeast ( Jesuit-run Regis High School in Manhattan, Amherst College in Massachusetts) and entered the Jesuit’s New England Province right after college. I come from a big, loving, noisy Italian family. But no Massaro has ever lived this far west.

What attRaCteD you to the Mission oF Jst? Ever since my ordination in 1993, I have been involved in theological education, and have loved this work immensely. I received a good dose of it in my doctoral program in Christian social ethics at Emory University, in a very fine and diverse ecumenical setting that resembles the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in many ways. For the past 15 years, I have been teaching moral theology at the Jesuit theology center in the Boston area (it was called Weston Jesuit School of Theology while in Cambridge, and since 2008 it has been part of Boston College). JST shares an identical mission with my former school: to educate future ministers for outstanding leadership in the church of tomorrow. I cannot think of any mission more important than that. The prospect of playing even a modest role in preparing learned ministers to serve God’s people gives me great consolation and a real sense of purpose.

What aRe youR hoPes FoR youR neW Position as Dean?I simply hope to contribute in my own way to the already promising future of JST. I expect the institutional storyline of the next few years to be mostly about

continuity, as the school works to maintain the strengths and distinctive features it has already developed. But to truly thrive and grow in times of challenge for our church and world, we must also prepare to change as necessary. Finalizing and implementing the strategic plan, for example, will give all members of the school community a chance to contribute to this promising future of continuity and change.

What aRe you lookinG FoRWaRD to at Jst?Through the serendipity of professional activities, I already know quite a few members of the JST faculty. Supporting them in their work of teaching and research is a top priority and a most attractive prospect for me. I also anticipate working closely with JST students, as well as the staff, members of the board of directors, and the wider JST and GTU communities. Building a closer relationship with the wonderful people I have met on the main campus of Santa Clara University is also most inviting.

is theRe anythinG else ouR BRiDGe ReaDeRs MiGht like to knoW aBout you?I am a huge fan of popular music (any Bruce Springsteen fans at JST?) and of most sports. I love to see and hear people working together in harmony for a common purpose. That relates to my image of how a dean can serve a graduate school: by encouraging and modeling true teamwork. If I can witness even a small dose of that God-given grace on my watch as dean, I will be most grateful for this opportunity to serve JST.

Introducing the New Dean, rev. thomas massaro, S.J.Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor

The Bridge welcomes Father Tom Massaro, S.J. who started

as the Jesuit School of Theology’s (JST) new dean in

July 2012. In the following interview, he introduces

himself to our readers.

Photo by Boston College Office of Marketing and Communications


PLAYFULLY doiNG thEoLoGYSr. Evelyn Wong, V.D.M.F. (M.Div. 2013)

Introducing the New Dean, rev. thomas massaro, S.J.Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor

FOr THe PAST TWO SUMMerS, I HAVe gOne to China with other Chinese-speaking sisters from the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity to offer Mandarin-language spiritual life formations and retreats to groups of religious sisters. With the support of several Chinese Catholic communities and individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area who share a love for the budding Church in China and empathize with the need for spiritual life formation for religious sisters, the Verbum Dei China Mission was born.

In our first session with the sisters at one seminary, we found ourselves surrounded by a group of young, atten-tive, formal and habited sisters. Later, they revealed that they were not expecting young, non-habited Chinese sisters like us. The teachers they envisioned were older, habited, experienced Westerners. Nevertheless, that meeting with the first group of sisters was the beginning of a journey of reconfiguration of the sisters’ image of God, self, community, consecration and spirituality. Sometimes dashed expectations are the best place to begin something new.

The sisters whom we encountered are from different religious communities and from different provinces in China. They are either staff at a seminary or are taking short-term formation classes. Most sisters in China do not receive much theological or pastoral formation. Furthermore, although they passionately desire to love and please God, some elements within Chinese culture sometimes become obstacles to deepening their relationship with God. Drawing from our own personal experiences and insights as religious sisters of Chinese background, we oriented the content of our formation and retreats to lead the sisters to a deeper experience of intimacy with God, hoping that they could perceive their consecration in a new and expanding horizon.

Integrating the theological and spiritual formations with spiritual practices and faith sharing helped the sisters the most. The sisters were able to share their own stories and experience how this related to the content of the formations. In doing so, they perceived their similar struggles, dreams and desires. They recognized that even as sisters they needed companionship and support in their journeys. Hence, they realized that God placed them together for the purpose of creating community and learning to create the Kingdom of God wherever they are.

We also rediscovered through their experiences the value of play in the spiritual life. We started each formation with an ice breaker to loosen up the sisters. The ice breakers were a huge hit. All formality melted away with these simple games and peals of laughter filled the classroom as spontaneity and light-heartedness crept into the souls of the sisters, opening them to a side of God they hardly expected to encounter.

The sisters reported to us: “I never realized that we can do a retreat in this way. I didn’t realize that God can speak to us in games, too!”

“It is amazing that when I play, I really enjoy myself, and when it is time to be in the chapel, I am able to connect with God easily, too.”

We realized that through the games, the sisters recovered the life and dignity that comes with being a Child of God; a child that is free to play, to laugh, to be, to unfold who they are in the presence of God as they are — beautiful Children of God.

Chinese sisters after final Mass in Beijing. Author, back row, eighth from right, tall one under the crucifix. Sr. Jeanette Kong, V.D.M.F. (M.Div. 2011), back row, second from left.

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thE JESUit SChooL oF thEoLoGY oF SANtA CLArA UNiVErSitY has long been known for the global diversity of its student body, which will become even richer with the launch of the Women of Wisdom & Action: Leadership & the Church of Tomorrow initiative. This program flows directly from JST’s mission to provide graduate theological education and leadership training in service of the Church and the world. This new initiative will provide Catholic women religious from under-resourced religious communities and underserved countries the opportunity to come to JST for advanced theological education. This training and support will enable them to become leaders of social change.

The Henry Luce Foundation awarded JST a generous grant of $375,000 to support the pilot phase of this program. The grant will provide staff and partial scholarship support for the initial cohort of sisters who will come from China, India and/or Vietnam. However, more scholarship funding is needed. JST will need to raise another $87,000 to fully fund the pilot program. Relying upon benefactors, the school intends to extend the program to more students in future years.

FutuRe aGents oF soCial ChanGeIn announcing the initia-tive, JST’s new dean Tom Massaro, S.J. emphasized the key role that women religious can and will play in the Church and the world of tomorrow. Vocations to

religious life are flourishing in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Most of these sisters are under 40. Possessing deep faith and cultural wisdom, many are college-educated and speak English. But even congregational leaders often lack the theological training and credentials needed to help the Church and society face the challenges of the future. Their home countries have few resources to provide women religious with the theological training and support they need to become agents of change. The religious communities themselves lack the resources to cover the full cost of theological education.

The Women of Wisdom & Action initiative will target women religious who hold promise to become important leaders in the Church. JST’s extensive network of Jesuit contacts and alumni has already identified many potential candidates for this program. In India, there is a particularly profound need for advanced theological degrees for women religious as well as leadership training for communities of tradition-ally marginalized sisters.

In Vietnam, due to the political situation, women religious cannot study theology. One provincial of the Lovers of the Holy Cross, the largest grouping of religious communities in Vietnam with 6,228 sisters in 2010 (and growing), has asked JST to help provide leadership formation and theological training for her sisters.

Similarly, mainland China remains one of the most underserved areas in the world for competent religious and theological training. Not surprisingly, few opportunities exist for Chinese women religious to pursue advanced theological studies and leadership formation, despite

Women of Wisdom & ActionCatherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor

LEAdErship & thE ChurCh of toMorrow

Vietnam: conversation about need for theological education for internal community leadership. Photo by Eduardo Fernandez, S.J.

Vietnam: Benedictine sister working in the garden. Photo by Eduardo Fernandez, S.J.


the rapidly growing number and size of their congregations. In this issue’s Profile in Ministry article, Sr. Evelyn Wong, V.D.M.F. (M.Div. 2013) describes her community’s response to the need for spiritual and pastoral formation for Chinese sisters.

RiPPle eFFeCtsTheologically educating women religious in leadership roles sets off ripple effects far beyond theology. Like their US counterparts over the past two centuries, these sisters operate at the heart of social change. They are building the social network of schools, hospitals, social services, etc. in their own countries, services that have an impact on the life of the Church far beyond their local settings. The sisters who come to JST return to leadership positions in their congregations and their social networks. They have the capacity to create and collaborate with effective social networks in their home context where their education will help them to animate entire communities.

Besides offering an excellent theological education and leadership training, this initiative will provide the critical institutional and community support the sisters need — while at JST and when they return home — to succeed as agents for others. JST plans to sustain its alumnae in their endeavors to serve the poorest and most marginalized members of their home societies by becom-ing and remaining a vital partner in their community and congregational networks. This new model also addresses the sisters’ religious congregations, local church communities, and their specific places of origin. JST will serve as a central node for bringing international communities into extended dialogue with those in the US. The program aspires to build upon the tradition of women religious in the US to foster the potential for reshaping cooperative leadership in the Church abroad and the US.

Jst — GiVinG anD ReCeiVinGThe presence of these international sisters at JST will also significantly affect how we do theology at JST and how we understand the role of women leaders in theological education. Their insights and experiences will influence JST’s curriculum (e.g., theology of mission, theology of religious life), student life, immersion opportunities, etc. International students have changed us by sharing their unique cultural wisdom and experiences of faith and ministry. As alumnae, participants will continue to change our perceptions and practices by connecting us with their students and the people they serve in their home communities. These cultural exchanges will help us as an academic community to better understand and live in the global Church.

JST is uniquely positioned to respond to the needs of the Church and society in underserved countries through this new initiative. Its location on the Pacific Rim and its deep roots in the San Francisco Bay Area international communities, its participation in the global network of the Society of Jesus, its own international alumni, and its years of experience offering contextualized theology and leadership training offer an unmatched combination of advantages that should ensure the success of this program.

an inVitationThere are many women religious leaders who could benefit from the Women of Wisdom & Action initiative. Unfortunately, the grant from the Luce Foundation does not cover all of the costs of this program. If you are interested in helping sponsor an international woman religious so that she can participate, please contact Kristin Aswell at 510-549-5041 or [email protected].

China: sharing exercise among women religious. Photo by Evelyn Wong, V.D.M.F.

India: Sisters of St. Anne dancing. Photo by Julia Prinz, V.D.M.F.

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JST Renews Commitment to St. Patrick’s Parish

As Jesuits, we move a lot. We never have a house to call our own. Yet we have the opportunity to learn from and live with many different people.

Living among the Lakota people on the Pine Ridge Reservation in SD, I learned that the development of family and relationships trumps all things — time, money, economic advancement, etc. When I moved to Berkeley, CA, in 2008, I often felt lost, because I was thrown back into modern, American culture, where the desire to make money seems to trump all things, at the expense of developing authentic relationships.

My first trip to St. Patrick’s parish in West Oakland changed that feeling. At the 10:00 AM Gospel Mass, I began to shake the usher’s hand. He responded, “We do not shake hands here. We hug.” Aaah, hospitality, rela-tionships! I knew I could learn here. I continued to attend the Gospel Mass. The culture and character of the people and the sincere hospitality helped me feel at home.

This hospitality increased when I joined the Gospel choir. I was afraid at first because I had little experience singing, but I really wanted to praise God like the choir could. Listening to them, I was often touched by the Spirit. Once I joined, the members kept encouraging me. Their support and love carried me through. The choir and I became like family. They all came to Omaha

for my ordination and praised God. To this day, many of my family and friends in Kansas City say the singing, the praise and the power of the ordination Mass was one of the best religious experiences of their lives. The Spirit was there and alive!

Last fall, after three years on the reservation, I returned to JST to pursue an advanced degree in missiology and sus-tainable economic development. I considered other schools, but I wanted to return to St. Patrick’s. I found a home with the people. If I am not celebrating Mass, I am singing in the choir, praising God. I find God at St. Patrick’s where relationships with one another and God trump everything.

Finding a Home at St. Patrick’sRev. Phillip T. Cooke, S.J. (M.Div. 2008, S.T.L. 2013)

In March 2012, JST renewed its commitment to provide pastoral care to St. Patrick’s Parish in West Oakland, CA. JST and the Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland executed an agreement whereby JST will continue to staff and guide the parish for another three years. JST has formally staffed St. Patrick’s since 1999. This ongoing partnership facilitates JST’s efforts to form students — Jesuits and lay — as ministers in service of the local Church. The Bridge is pleased to introduce St. Patrick’s new pastor, rev. George Quickley, S.J. (M.Div. 1980), and to print JST student and alumnus, rev. Phil cooke, S.J.’s (M.Div. 2008, S.T.L. 2013) theological reflection on finding a home at St. Patrick’s.

Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor


New St. Patrick’s Pastor, Rev. George Quickley, S.J. (M.Div. 1980)

Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor

Describe your background.I was originally a Maryland Province Jesuit but now I am a member of the North-West Africa Province. I worked for 15 years in Africa in formation: three years as superior of a Jesuit community for Jesuits in formation; five years as director of novices; and seven years as major superior. With more than 75 percent of the Jesuits in the province in formation, my responsibility was to form young Africans to take leadership of the province. A Nigerian replaced me as provincial. I have been on sabbatical at Fordham University since October 2011. After 15 years in Africa, things are so different coming back — socially, politically, culturally, where the Church is.

What attracted you to St. Patrick’s Parish in West Oakland?I was provincial in North-West Africa and finished on May 31, 2011. As provincial, I visited JST to see my men. I know Greg Chisholm, S.J. very well. I visited with him and got to know the parish and the work he was doing as pastor. I was at JSTB for my Master of Divinity from 1977–80. In 1977–79, I lived across the street from St. Pat’s at 1032 Peralta, two doors down from a JVC ( Jesuit Volunteer Corps) community. Six of us formed a Jesuit community so we could be in touch with the people, in solidarity with the poor. I know the neighborhood and in a way, I will be returning home. My experience living there was a wonderful way to learn theology. God integrated all these experiences to bring me back as pastor.

What are your hopes as pastor? And for St. Patrick’s and JST?JST plays a very significant role nationally, internationally and locally in fostering Catholic education and the advancement of the Catholic faith, inviting people to be part of an enterprise that perpetuates the Catholic faith. I received 20 years of Catholic education. The Ursuline Sisters taught me in grammar school and Marist brothers and priests taught me in high school.

I wanted to be part of Catholic education and advancing the mission of the Catholic Church. It is very inspiring. I feel humbled to be a small part of this.

What are you looking forward to at St. Patrick’s?At JST, I am excited to see two African Jesuits from the North-West Africa Province whom I, as provincial, assigned to JST and six other African Jesuits whom I know. I have had three visits since October. On my first visit I was at St. Pat’s for the Our Lady of Guadalupe celebration with the Spanish-speaking community and the many festivities that surround it. I am learning Spanish. My last visit was during African-American history month and I was at the fish fry, a long tradition at the parish. I am hopeful that there is a good relationship between the two ethnic communities. The Spanish speakers have told me they feel a part of the historically African-American parish and that there are good efforts at unity. This is a great situation to enter. I was pastor of St. Joseph’s Parish in Nigeria, a country where there are 135 different ethnic groups, languages and tribes. The Church was promoting unity to overcome ethnic conflicts. My experience will help me although the cultures and the languages are different.

Is there anything else our Bridge readers might like to know about you?I am an alumnus of JSTB. I had a very good pastoral experience at JSTB and in West Oakland. I am happy with the formation I received and am excited to return and be part of the formation for people preparing for ministry in the Church.

PREVIOuS PAgE IMAgES: Chris Schroeder, S.J. (M.Div. 2014) and Raul Navarro, S.J. (M.Div. 2013), leaders of the confirmation and religious education program at St. Patrick’s. Photo by Raul Navarro, S.J. Interior of St. Patrick’s. Photo by Carlo Perez. THIS PAgE: Rev. george Quickley, S.J. Photo by Office of Communications, North-West Africa Province. Culturally contextualized murals of the Madonna at St. Patrick’s: Our lady of guadalupe. Photo by Carlo Perez. Black Madonna & Child. Photo by Raul Navarro, S.J.

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As the Catholic Church

commemorates the 50th

anniversary of the opening of

the Second Vatican Council in

October, the Bridge takes this

opportunity to examine and

celebrate the Council and its

impact on theology. Vatican II

spanned 1962–65. For each fall

issue in 2012–15, the Bridge

will feature a JST faculty

member reflecting on how

Vatican II influenced his or

her field of theology. We begin

with Dean Tom Massaro, S.J.

and moral theology.

The Impact of Vatican II on Moral Theology


Dome of St. Peter’s Basilica at dusk.

WhEN WE PoNdEr oF thE LEGACY oF thE Second Vatican Council, we think immediately (and rightly so) of the ways that Council documents altered our understanding and practice of the liturgy, of relations with other religious communities, and of our church itself. But the influence of Vatican II extended to all branches of theology, including moral theology and social ethics, the fields in which I have worked for over two decades. Allow me to trace the broad outlines of the changes brought by the Council to Catholic moral theology.

In his seminal writings on Vatican II, distinguished church historian John W. O’Malley, S.J., frequently emphasizes that the Council brought a new and distinctive style to the life of the church. Even where the substance of theological beliefs and religious practices displayed a basic continuity, the Council Fathers treated familiar themes with a noticeable freshness. The 16 major Vatican II documents employed a rhetorical style that truly soared, and certainly avoided the anathemas and embattled condemnations of earlier eras, including Vatican I. The Council documents also reflected an implicit turn to historical consciousness and thus repeatedly invoke terms like dialogue, collegiality, communion and partici-pation — words that evoke dynamic openness and relationality rather than static essences and predetermined judgments. As any JST graduate or student could attest, two key concepts dominating Vatican II scholarship are ressourcement (a French terms denoting a “return to the sources” of Christian faith, including scripture and earlier theologians) and aggiornamento (an Italian word for bringing our theology “up to date,” in dialogue with contemporary secular realities). Taken together, this pair of guideposts reflects Vatican II’s creative blend of new and old, producing a brew in which innovations are steeped in inherited tradition, and where the flavor of the familiar is enhanced by new ingredients.

The effects of the Council on the discourse of moral theology are an excellent example of this dynamic. For centuries, moral theology had been dominated by a body of literature called the moral manuals — handbooks for confessors to discern the sinfulness of acts of their penitents and to determine appropriate penances and counsel. Helpful as they might have been in their day, the manuals had seriously constricted the moral imagination of the Catholic community. Pre-occupied with law, sin and culpability, moral theology was for too long satisfied to

be a mere handmaiden to canon law, relegated to little more than a tool in the hands of sacramental ministers and canon lawyers. It took bold innovators like the Redemptorist Bernard Häring and the Jesuit Josef Fuchs to break this mold and start writing, in the decades before Vatican II, about themes such as moral freedom, discernment, ethical vision, the virtues and, above all, the role of conscience in the moral life.

None of these themes ws new, of course, but each needed to be revived and reintroduced into the working vocabulary of the people of God. The best example of a Vatican II document which accomplished this is the treatment of conscience in Gaudium et Spes, the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. The beautifully written opening pages of this document reach something of a high point in paragraph 16, which describes the function of conscience with the characteristic spirit of openness and humanism displayed so often by Vatican II:

In the depths of his conscience, man detects a law which he does not impose upon himself, but which holds him to obedience… Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of a man. There he is alone with God, whose voice echoes in his depths. In a wonderful manner, conscience reveals that law which is fulfilled by love of God and neighbor. In fidelity to conscience, Christians are joined with the rest of men in the search for truth…. (original official English translation, not correcting for non-inclusive language, in the interest of historical accuracy)

The students we educate at JST enjoy parsing paragraphs like these from Vatican II, which combine traditional categories of scholastic philosophy with newer themes from the age of Enlightenment and beyond. Drawing at once from Doctors of the Church such as Saint Thomas Aquinas as well as from the new secular disciplines of psychology and sociology, what emerges is an amalgam of objective and subjective concerns that shed great light on the moral experience of people of our modern (and even post-modern) era.

The celebrated opening lines of the same Vatican II document (Gaudium et Spes) strike an even more dramatic chord. Many JST students and alumni might be able to recite these pivotal lines by heart:

The Impact of Vatican II on Moral TheologyBy Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J., Dean

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The joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the men of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these too are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts.

In highlighting the familiar point that social marginalization and material deprivation constitute concerns for all the faithful, the Council Fathers are here directly and deliberately identifying the church with the poor of our world today. The implications for the church’s social teachings could not be more profound. If social justice is truly to become a priority, then every facet of Christian life must be marked by a “preferential option for the poor.” This term from Latin American liberation theology would come to be articulated just a few short years after the close of the Council, and was inspired in part by Pope John XXIII’s challenge to become a “church of the poor.” Many have pointed out that the interaction of prelates from all parts of the world during the Council promoted enhanced solidarity among Catholic communities in the First World, the Third World and all parts of our universal church. In those heady days of the Council, cardinals and bishops from all nations, rich and poor alike, served together on writing committees, deliberated in plenary sessions held in the central nave of Saint Peter’s Basilica, and sipped cups of espresso between sessions. Nothing promotes mutual understanding like hard labor on a common project.

Vatican II thus deepened our church’s concern about poverty in the less developed world, but it also helped U.S. Catholics to prioritize domestic poverty reduction, an urgent task even in our

affluent land. The Catholic Campaign for Human Development was launched just four years after the Council closed. In the past half century, the U.S. bishops have frequently published documents calling for concerted efforts against poverty and hunger in our nation. They even employed the option for the poor as a fundamental lens for viewing economic life in the momentous 1986 pastoral letter, Economic Justice for All. Once again, concerns expressed at Vatican II have been adopted as prominent agenda-shaping priorities for the church to this day.

The Second Vatican Council provided direction for Catholic social ethics in innumerable further ways. Whenever we debate the role of Catholics in the public

On June 4, 2012, Archbishop emeritus, John r. Quinn, the former archbishop of San Francisco gave a talk based on his new book, Ever Ancient, Ever New: Structures of Communion in the Church (Paulist Press, 2013), to alumni, donors and special guests at Santa Clara University.

Archbishop Quinn focused on two distinct “structures of communion” that have played important roles in the history of the Church and the papacy: patriarchates and deliberative synods. Acknowledging both the important impact of the Second Vatican Council and the difficulty in having ecumenical councils very often, Archbishop Quinn advocated for a reexamination of and possible expansion of the role of patriarchs prominent in the early church. He quoted then-Cardinal ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) suggesting the possibility of making Africa and South America distinct patriarchates.

recalling his participation in three different synods, none of which were deliberative, Archbishop Quinn suggested that making them deliberative (i.e. having the power to make meaningful decisions) could make the papacy more relevant to today’s world.

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Pope John XXIII who called the Council. Rev. John Courtney Murray, S.J., the architect of The Decree on Religious Freedom. Photo courtesy of the Acton Institute. Rev. Francis A. Sullivan, S.J., a steadfast interpreter & defender of Vatican II, received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from JST in May 2012. Photo by lee Pellegrini.

JST’s Vatican II replica bell with a dove representing the Holy Spirit inspiring the Council. A close-up of the dove. The Holy Spirit informs our consciences. Vatican II emphasized the Catholic call to conscience. A dove is often a sym-bol of peace and Catholic Social Teaching has treated peace issues extensively since the Council. Photos by Hanh Pham, S.J.


JST has collaborated with the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, the Religious Studies Department of Santa Clara University (SCU), and Holy Spirit Parish (Newman Hall), Berkeley, to sponsor a public lecture series entitled, “Vatican II: Recalling Our Past, Looking to Our Future.”

kOmOncHAk’S keYnOte AddreSS Rev. Joseph Komonchak, retired from the Catholic University of America, will give the keynote address, “Interpreting Vatican II,” both at Santa Clara University (mOndAY, OctOber 15, 2012) and in Berkeley at Holy Spirit Parish (tueSdAY, OctOber 16, 2012) at 7:30 p.m. Along with Giuseppe Alberigo, Fr. Komonchak has edited a five-volume history of Vatican II.

the FolloWinG leCtuRes Will Be in Jst’s Gesù ChaPel at 7:30 P.M.:

• nOvember 14, 2012: Sr. Mary Ann Donovan, S.C., retired Professor of Historical Theology and Spirituality, and Dr. Arthur Holder, Dean of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), will speak on Ecumenism. Prof. Donovan has been involved in the Buddhist-Christian Dialogue; Dean Holder has been dean of the ecumenical GTU since 2002.

• februArY 20, 2013: In conjunction with the Diocese of Oakland, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary, a panel of presenters, clergy and laity, will address Vatican II and parish life.

• mArcH 13, 2013: Professor Frederick Parrella and Lecturer Sally Vance-Trembath of the Religious Studies Dept. of SCU will discuss laity and lay ministry. Dr. Parrella is co-editor of From Trent to Vatican II: Historical and Theological Investigations; Dr. Vance-Trembath recently published The Pneumatology of Vatican II: With Particular Reference to Lumen gentium and Gaudium et spes.

• APriL 17, 2013: Rev. T. Howland Sanks, S.J., retired Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, will speak on collegiality and synodal governance.

JST will also offer a speaker’s bureau to local parishes for talks on Vatican II. www.scu.edu/jst/news/VaticanII.cfm

Vatican II Lecture SeriesDr. Bruce Lescher, Associate Academic Dean

square, we find ourselves leaning on teachings from Vatican II. For example, Gaudium et Spes praises the widening participation of citizens in public affairs (paragraph 31, inter alia), and many subsequent Catholic reflections on the topic affirm the obligation of people of faith to take up an appropriate measure of political responsibility, including the quadrennial pre-election statements of the U.S. bishops (the most recent one is called “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship”). To return to the theme of conscience cited above, Gaudium et Spes also provides the first substantive treatment within modern Catholic social teaching of conscientious objection to unjust wars (see paragraphs 78–80), a theme that the U.S. bishops take up in a full-throated way in their 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace.

Other Vatican II documents deserve to be recognized for their own distinctive contribution to moral theology and social ethics as practiced by Catholics today. The Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem) reshaped our understanding of the lay vocation in church and society. The Decree on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) shifted the entire landscape of how Catholics perceived religious liberty and church-state relations.

To return to our starting point, it seems impossible to deny that the Second Vatican Council displayed a new style for thinking and speaking about the moral life. If moral theology is defined as “reflection upon the behavioral implications of our faith,” then Vatican II placed a distinctive mark upon how members of the Catholic community approach all their faith-motivated activities, both in the intimate sphere of family and friends, as well as the wider world of public life. In their concerns for championing the wellbeing of all people against threatening realities like poverty and affronts against freedom of conscience, the moral teachings of Vatican II prefigured the theme of personalism that Pope John Paul II highlighted in his pontificate, as he brought to maturity many Vatican II concerns.

Catholics today possess a rich heritage of moral teachings that were renewed and deepened at Vatican II. At theology centers like JST and in the varied cultural contexts of everyday life around the world, we all benefit from the work of the Council, even at a distance of a half-century now, as we take up the struggle for social justice and the challenge of living out our faith in the vineyard of the Lord.

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ReV. John MCGaRRy, s.J. rECtor oF thE JSt JESUit CoMMUNitYAs rector, I serve as the religious superior of all the Jesuits who live, study, and work at JST. The rector accompanies his fellow Jesuits in their life of prayer, vows, community and mission (service). My role will be to listen, and when necessary, provide guidance for the Jesuits of the community in supporting them in their teaching, research, studies, and ministry in the Church. The rector also has a specific role in caring for the formation of Jesuits for ministry and preparation for ordination to the priesthood. Our desire and our goal, as Jesuits, is to follow Jesus through our vows and community life together, as we seek, in collaboration with others, to serve the People of God.

I completed my M.Div at JST, and graduated in 1993, the same year I was ordained a priest. I received an excellent education and formation at JST through my life in the Jesuit community and in the school when I was a student here. I will be forever grateful for this gift, and I am happy to be able to give back to JST and to the Society of Jesus by serving as rector. The work of the JST is important to the future of the Society of Jesus and the Church, in providing outstanding academic and pastoral formation for Jesuits, lay men and women, and other vowed religious, from all over the world.

Some highlights from my background include serving as provincial of the California Province of the Society of Jesus from 2005 to 2011 and walking the Camino Santiago de Compestela in Spain. As provincial, I served on the JST Board, which I will return to as rector.

Because I am grateful for my own vocation, I especially look forward to accompanying the Jesuits in formation as they prepare for ministry and service as priests. Our superior general has invited us to greater spiritual and intellectual depth, in our service to the Church, and I hope to help foster that depth in our community. I also

very much look forward to supporting the mission of JST as a theology center. As an important apostolate of the Society of Jesus, I hope to help continually deepen our partnership and collaboration with others through active participation in the life of the school. We can be most effective in our service of faith and justice when we share together from our various experiences in the call we all have to minister to the People of God.

ReV. hunG PhaM, s.J. ASSoCiAtE ProFESSor iN iGNAtiAN SPiritUALitYSome highlights from my background include my birth in Viet Nam, immigrating to the US in high school, and working for Jesuit Refugee Service-Asia Pacific training math and science teachers in the Burmese refugee camp in Northern Thailand. After ordination and completing my STL in interreligious dialogue, I taught Ignatian Spirituality and led the retreat program at Regis University. I completed my doctorate in Ignatian Spirituality at Comillas Pontifica Universidad de Madrid. I am highly interested in cultural studies and how cultures and spirituality interrelate. For my doctoral studies, I was interested in what is it in Ignatian Spirituality that demands and calls us towards inculturation. I did a reading of the Catechism of Fr. Alexandre de Rhodes, a Jesuit missionary sent to Vietnam at the beginning of the 17th century, from the perspective of the Spiritual Exercises.

As a Jesuit, I hope to bring a dimension of the Jesuit charism to enrich the well-established program in spiri-tuality at the Graduate Theological Union. I look forward to continuing together to learn to read the “signs of our time” and the diversity of our world to serve and to lead people in their own cultural and religious contexts. I hope to further deepen my scholarship and my spirituality from the diversity which JST embodies and embraces.

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THE BridgE iNTRODuCES JST’S NEW FACuLTy, STAFF AND JESuiT COMMuNiTy LEADERS. THEy DESCRiBE iN THEiR OWN WORDS THEiR BACKGROuND, THEiR ROLE AT THE SCHOOL, THEiR ATTRACTiON TO JST, AND WHAT THEy ARE LOOKiNG FORWARD TO HERE.

But first we bid fond farewell to several professors and thank them for their many years of dedicated service and scholarship. rev. thomas buckley, S.J. is at Loyola Marymount University teaching one or two courses each semester, helping out with alumni relations, and continuing to be the provincial’s delegate for the Malatesta Program. Sr. maryAnn donovan, S.c. has retired from full-time teaching and moved back to Cincinnati, OH. She will continue to lecture at conferences in the US and China. rev. francis mcAloon, S.J. is now teaching at Fordham University. rev. t. Howland (“Hal”) Sanks, S.J. is the minister for the Jesuit community at Loyola University Maryland.


ReV. anh Q. tRan, s.J. ASSiStANt ProFESSor oF hiStoriCAL ANd SYStEMAtiC thEoLoGYI have come full circle at Santa Clara University (SCU). SCU is my alma mater where I studied electrical engineering (BSEE 1985, MSEE 1990) and returned to teach (2000–2002) as a Jesuit scholastic. Being a graduate of several Jesuit institutions (SCU, Loyola University of Chicago, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and Georgetown University), I am committed to the Ignatian pedagogy of forming men and women for others. Returning to JST I am attracted by the diversity of the student body and the ecumenical spirit of the school and the greater Graduate Theological Union. JST allows me to further my interests in ecumenism, intercultural dialogue, comparative religion/theology, Asian theology and Christian missions in Asia. I am looking forward to being a bridge for students and colleagues from various academic fields, cultures, institutions and religions.

ReV. steVen (steVe) C. DillaRD, s.J. (M.DiV. 1986) JSt JESUit CoMMUNitY MiNiStEr/SoCiUSThe minister assists the rector in the care of the buildings of the community. I was available for this mission after completing my time as secretary of formation at the Jesuit Conference in Washington, DC. After ordination, I worked 12 years in secondary education in both teach-ing and administration. I was then invited to move into Jesuit internal ministry work in the area of the formation of Jesuits. Coming to JST completes a circle in that I have been missioned to work at a Jesuit novitiate, as the province formation assistant, at the first studies program at Cizsak Hall (Fordham University), the Jesuit Conference Office as formation secretary and now minister at the theology center.

I find the job as minister at JST extremely attractive. I will be able to combine my natural attraction to construction work with the great need for building maintenance around the community. Making it possible for others to have more time to do their mission of studies and formation work is something I believe I am gifted at and a good use of my natural talents. Familiarity with the formation documents of

both the Society of Jesus and the USCCB will prove helpful for adding perspective to the work and mission of JST.

Ms. teRe GallaRReta (M.t.s. 2011) Sr . AdMiNiStrAtiVE ASSiStANt For StUdENt LiFEIn 2009, I moved across the country to study at JST. I completed the M.T.S. program in May 2011. I love JST, and am grateful for the wonderful experience I had here as a student. My desire that JST remain a welcoming, positive, and supportive environment for students attracted me to my current position. I work with Assistant Dean of Students, Paul Kircher, to provide support to students and foster the school’s community life. I look forward to meeting amazing people from all over the country and the world, and collaborating with them to create memorable, fulfilling, and transformative experiences at the school.

ReV. GeoRGe WilliaMs, s.J. AdJUNCt FACULtY/CAthoLiC ChAPLAiN At SAN QUENtiNIn January 2011, I became the Catholic chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, ministering to over 4,000 prisoners including 720 men on California’s death row. A 2004 graduate of Weston Jesuit School of Theology, I came here from the Massachusetts State prison system where I have worked as jail and prison chaplain since l993. In the fall, I will teach “Prison Ministry” at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU).

I chose to live at JST to offer prison ministry training to GTU students — especially to train lay students for leadership in prison ministry for the future. Being at JST makes it easier to invite both Jesuit and lay students to come to San Quentin to participate in programs and religious services. Currently, three GTU students (two from JST, one from PSR) are teaching theology classes in a program I have begun called, “The Jesuit School of Theology at San Quentin.” The goal is to offer accredited, college-level theology courses for prisoners at San Quentin.

Top to bottom: Jesuit Fathers Mcgarry, Pham, Tran, Dillard and Ms. gallarreta. Photos by Carlo Perez. Rev. Williams, S.J. Photo by lt. Sam Robinson, Public Affairs Officer, San Quentin State Prison.

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alumnus Gives Back to JstJim Purcell, Special Assistant to the President

AS WE CELEBrAtE thE 50th ANNiVErSArY of the Second Vatican Council, I feel especially blessed to be working with the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University to raise funds for scholarships and other important programs at the school. Fifty years ago this September I became a student at the Gregorian University in Rome. Four years later the Council had ended and I received my S.T.L.

Now in my 15th year at Santa Clara, and my seventh decade of life, I appreciate the importance of “giving back” more than ever. This was reaffirmed for me recently when the Jesuit School of Theology received notice of a bequest from the estate of a retired priest who had attended the sabbatical program in the mid-80’s (before it was called “New Directions”). This $20,000 gift will make it possible for someone else to attend the sabbatical program for spiritual refreshment, rest and relaxation. What a gift!

I would encourage all of those who believe in the mission of the Jesuit School of Theology to consider JST in their estate plans. You can designate a portion of your estate through a bequest in your will, trust, or retirement plan assets.

Bequests to the Jesuit School of Theology may be in the form of a fixed amount; a portion of an estate, the residue of an estate; a particular parcel of real estate; or a particular security such as life insurance, stocks or artwork. There are many options when it comes to a bequest and we can provide suggested language to you and your attorney to match your philanthropic priorities with important priorities of the Jesuit School of Theology. Be sure to let us know you have included JST in your future plans — we want to say thank you!

Two other important gifts are making a big impact on JST: the Thomas E. Bertelsen, Jr. Endowment Challenge and the Leo Hindery, Jr. Annual Giving Challenge.

Mr. Bertelsen, who chairs the JST Board, pledged $1,000,000 for endowed scholarships for JST students

if we could raise an additional $1,000,000 from other donors. So far, five donors have stepped forward with gifts/pledges of $125,000 each. We hope to find three more donors during this academic year to complete this challenge.

Mr. Hindery pledged $250,000 to match gifts to scholarships that are funded through the school’s annual operating budget. So far, we have raised $141,000 toward this challenge and our goal is raise the remaining $109,000 by June 30, 2013. Mr. Hindery will match anyone who makes a gift this year ( July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013) who did not make a gift last year as well as increases in gifts from donors who did make a gift last year.

For more information on estate gifts, please contact Santa Clara’s Office of Gift Planning at 408-554-2108. If you would like to help us meet the Bertelsen Challenge or the Hindery Challenge, contact either Kristin Aswell at [email protected] or Jim Purcell at [email protected].

New Directions Sabbatical Program spring 2012 cohort. Back row, center, program director, Rev. Robert W. McChesney, S.J. Photo by Franca Mazzotti.

On March 31, 2012, JST in collaboration with the California Province of the Society of Jesus, Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, Holy Names University, Santa Clara University, and Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary hosted the Religious Life Conference 2012. The theme was “Sharing the New Wine: Vowed

Religious Life in a Postmodern Age”. rev. John endres, S.J., Sr. Helen Graham, m.m. (M.T.S. 1983), Sr. Elizabeth Liebert, S.N.J.M., Rev. Pat Lee, S.J., Sr. Julia Prinz, v.d.m.f. (S.T.L. 2004), Sr. Sophia Park, S.N.J.M. presented the introduction and three talks. 170 people attended.

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Sharing the New Wine

A Day for Communal Reflection and Dialogue on Religious Life

March 31, 2012 Santa Clara University

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Holy Names University • Santa Clara University Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity

We face many challenges. Globalization and cultural diversity, fragmentation and discrimination, secularization contrasted with an increasing new fundamentalism, growing injustice and poverty, neo-liberalism and ecological destruction, never-ending landscapes of war and abuse scandals.

These are only some of the realities which heavily impact religious life today, in its very nature of dedication, vocation and mission. Further questions around the sense of community, its style and structure, about the cross-cultural relationships inside our communities and in our diverse m i n i s t r i e s i nv o l v e o u r formation as much as our apostolate.

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Locatelli HallLocatelli Hall 500 El Camino Real500 El Camino Real

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9:00-9:20 Opening Liturgy

9:30 Introduction to Conference by Fr. John Endres, SJ and Sr. Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM

9:35-10:20 First Talk: Fr. Pat Lee, SJ Twilight or Dawn

10:20 Break

10:35-11:35 Second Talk: A dialogue between Sr. Julia Prinz, VDMF and Sr. Sophia Park, SNJM

11:35-12:15 Small Group Reflection and Sharing

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-2:00 Artistic Presentation

2:00-2:45 Third Talk: Sr. Helen Graham, MM At Home in the World

3:00-4:00 Plenary Sharing Session Panel Discussion with Q&A

4:15-5:15 Eucharistic Celebration

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DR. thoMas Cattoi, Assistant Professor of Christology and Cultures, Dwan Family Endowed Chair in Ecumenical and Interfaith Dialogue, in early May, read his paper, “The Challenge of the Desert: Passions and Emotions in Early Christian Spirituality” at the annual conference on Integral Consciousness held at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. In June, he gave a paper on “The Human and the Cosmic: Christological Interpretations of the Liturgy in Thomas Aquinas and Maximos the Confessor” at the annual CTSA meeting in St. Louis, where he also joined the steering committee of the Comparative Theology group. At the CTSA meeting, he also interviewed a number of theologians and scholars about the impact of the Second Vatican Council on their academic careers, and the taped interviews will become available on the JST webpage as part of the JST initiative to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Council. Over the past few months, Dr. Cattoi has written a number of book reviews for Reviews in Religion and Theology, Theological Studies, and more recently The Journal of Ecumenical Studies. He has (finally!) completed work on his volume on Theodore the Studite, which will be published in the coming months. His paper, Normative Texts and Multiple Meanings: Rescuing Alternative Voices in Origen’s and Tsong kha pa’s Approaches to Scriptural Interpretation will be published in October by Religions East and West, and he is preparing a chapter on Gregory of Nyssa’s Trinitarian theology that will be published in a volume on the Trinity edited by Khaled Anatolios of the BC School of Theology and Ministry. In July, he attended a symposium-retreat on the spiritual-ity of Saint Francis de Sales near

Florence, Italy. Dr. Cattoi received tenure and this fall succeeds rev. thomas buckley S.J. as the JST point person for the Malatesta exchange program for Chinese students and scholars.

ReV. John enDRes, s.J., Professor of Sacred Scripture (Old Testament) and Director of Studies for Religious, and Sr. Julia Prinz, v.d.m.f., Provincial Superior and Director of Formation of the Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity and Adjunct Professor of Christian Spirituality offered the Honolulu Theology in the City lecture, “Bare Feet and Theology: Women Religious as Change Agents in Asia” on March 14; on March 15, he, Sr. Prinz and rev. kevin burke, S.J. presented a Conference on Scripture for the Clergy Conference of the Diocese of Hawaii. He published First and Second Chronicles, a spring 2012 title in the Collegeville Commentary Old Testament series.

ReV. eDuaRDo FeRnanDez, s.J., Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry, was promoted to the rank of full professor. On April 21, he received the Servant Leadership Award at the Annual Spirituality Convocation of the Center for Ministry and Spirituality at the College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ. “ You epitomize [servant leadership] in the enormous contributions you have made to educa-tion, pastoral leadership formation, and service to the Hispanic community. Congratulations!”

DR. Gina hens-Piazza, Professor of Biblical Studies, delivered the Castlelot Lectures in Detroit ( June 19–23) on Preaching and Teaching the Prophets in a Global Church. She gave a Lenten series at St. Augustine Parish on The Spirituality of Jeremiah Feb. 2012. She reviewed

Reframing Biblical Studies by Ellen van Wolde for Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (March 2012); submitted an entry on “New Historicism” for the new Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible (April 2012); submitted an invited article for Landas — Journal for the Loyola School of Theology, Manila, Philippines entitled, “Supporting Cast vs. Supporting Caste: The Major Importance of Minor Biblical Characters”. The article was the transcript of the keynote lecture she delivered in Manila in 2010 at the East Asian Institute for Contextual Bible Studies. With Robert Robert Alter and Erich Gruen, she taught in this year’s UC-Berkeley History-Social Science Institute of Learning entitled, “Cultural Histories of the Hebrew Bible” held on the UCB campus July 9–13, 2012. Hens-Piazza lectured on the use of New Historicism as a means to illuminate the minor players of these cultural texts.

ReV. Paul JanoWiak s.J., Associate Professor of Sacramental and Liturgical Theology, inaugurated the St. James Cathedral Vatican II lecture series in Seattle on March 15 with a presentation entitled, “Ever Ancient, Ever New: Vatican II and the Liturgy.” The speakers included Fr. John O’Malley S.J. and Bishop Robert McElroy, auxiliary bishop of San Francisco. From June 25–30, as President of the International Jungmann Society of Jesuits and Liturgy, he presided at the biennial meeting of the 50 Jesuit liturgical scholars gathered in Nitra, Slovakia. He delivered the keynote address of the congress entitled, “Jesuits and the Kenosis of the Word: Preaching as a Vulnerable Act.” Later in the summer, he participated in a vocation panel with members of the Oregon and California Provinces for young men interested in the Society.

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ReV. thoMas MassaRo, s.J., Dean and Professor of Moral Theology, gave the keynote pre-sentation, “Doing Social Justice in Ignatian Rhythm,” at the conference “Finding God in Unsettled Times: Spirituality Convocation of the Jesuit Collaborative,” at Loyola University, Baltimore, MD, June 30, 2012.

DR. Mia M. MoChizuki, Thomas E. Bertelsen, Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, offered the plenary lecture, “The Diaspora of the Religious Print,” for the opening of a conference on “Crosscurrents in Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500–1800,” organized by Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in January. In March, she offered the Renaissances Group at Stanford University a workshop on her current research, entitled, “Mundus and the Mundane.” She served as the GTU Representative for the ATS’s Roundtable for Mid-Career Faculty in Pittsburgh, participated in a Luce Consultation in Art and Religion at Fuller Theological Seminary, and became a founding board member of two scholarly journals: Journal of Interdisciplinary Jesuit Studies (Leiden: Brill) and Journal of Early Modern Christianity (Berlin: De Gruyter). Her review of Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church. Visual Culture, Missionization and Appropriation, edited by Kathleen J. Martin, appeared in Material Religion. And her article, with Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato, “Perspective and Its Discontents or St. Lucy’s Eyes,” on Jesuit art in Japan was published during the summer in Dana Leibsohn and Jeanette Favrot Peterson, eds., Seeing across Cultures in the Early Modern Period (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012).

ReV. GeoRGe MuRPhy, s.J. and sR. Jane FeRDon, o.P. offered their 23rd Spiritual Direction Practicum in June and July. Participants came from Hungary, Slovenia, Ireland, India, Indonesia, France, Vietnam and different parts of the United States.

ReV. WilliaM o’neill, s.J., Associate Professor of Social Ethics, on April 11, offered the keynote address for the conference, Eucharist without Borders, “Global Migration and the Option for the Poor: Social Reconciliation and the Eucharist” in Rio Rico, AZ. On May 21, he presented a paper on “Rights of Passage: Moral Responsibility to Refugees and Migrants” at an international conference on “Immigrants and Refugees: Social, Political, Legal, and Ethical Problems and Solutions” at St. Louis University. On June 8, he offered the plenary response to Agbonkhianmege E. Orobator’s “A Global Sign of Outward Growth: The Sacramentality of the World Church in the Ear of Globalization” at the Catholic Theological Society Convention. On June 18, he pre-sented a paper, “First Be Reconciled: Restorative Justice in Catholic Social Teaching” for the Democracy, Culture, and Catholicism International Research Project at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, sponsored by Loyola University of Chicago.

DR. Jean-FRançois RaCine, Associate Professor of New Testament, with André Gagné (Concordia University, Montréal), edited En marge du canon: Études sur les écrits apocryphes juifs et chrétiens (L’Écriture de la Bible 2; Paris: Cerf, 2012). www.editionsducerf.fr/html/ fiche/fichelivre.asp?n_liv_cerf=9531

sR. sanDRa sChneiDeRs, i.h.M., Professor Emerita of New Testament and Spirituality, Prophets in Their Own Country: Women Religious Bearing Witness to the Gospel in a Troubled Church. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2011) received First Place in Gender Issues category by the Catholic Press Association, 2012. She published “Ministerial Religious Life into the Future,” (Sisters of Mercy of the West Midwest Community, 2012) 1–41. (Originally delivered as a public lecture, June 22, 2012, in Detroit, MI). She participated as a consultant in an international Experts Meeting on The Spirit and Discernment in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures in Malta, May 24–27, 2012; participated in an international symposium on The Bible and Spirituality at the University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, Mary 29–31, 2012 and delivered a paper: “Biblical Spirituality: Text and Transformation”. She served as a mentor for Institute of Advanced Catholic Studies program “Generations in Dialogue” of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, held in Palos Verdes, CA, July 20–22, 2012. She participated in the annual convention of the Catholic Biblical Association and participated in panel celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the association, speaking on “Women in the Field of Biblical Scholarship”, July 28–31, 2012, Notre Dame, IN. She was appointed to the editorial board of the Australian E-Journal of Theology based in Melbourne, Australia. She participated in the Annual Assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious in St. Louis, MO, Aug. 7–10, 2012. She received the Outstanding Leadership Award of the LCWR on Aug. 10, 2012.

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1970sReV. Dennis C. sMolaRski, s.J. (M.Div., S.T.M., 1979) published two books: Eucharist and American Culture: Liturgy, Unity, and Individualism (New York: Paulist Press, 2010). The Catholic Press Association awarded it first place in the Liturgy category for books published in 2010. His Chinese translation of How Not to Say Mass appeared in late 2011 (Taipei City: the Chinese Regional Bishops’ Conference).

1980sReV. Pat ConRoy, s.J. (M.Div. 1983) is the chaplain for the U.S. House of Representatives. The following is an excerpt from his interview with The Oregonian on May 10, 2012. What does it feel like? I am chaplain to a room full of true believers, who are invested in what they stand for and what they are trying to do. A lot of members are quite faith-filled. Some are convicted, and they don’t have crises of faith. Others hope they are being faithful. It’s fascinating to watch. How do you advise someone in that situation? Thomas Aquinas tells us to follow our consciences, to be honest with ourselves. If you can’t do that, then we have a crisis. What’s it like to be well-schooled in Catholic social teaching as Congress grapples with the budget? There is a strong theology at play: people who

believe that taking care of the poor is what churches do, not what government does, that maybe government is over-reaching. But my position is to observe — not to engage in that argument…. But I have prayed, do pray for serenity. I can’t have an opinion. In order to be chaplain I have to let go of this stuff.

sR. MaRGaRet a. lanDRy, R.s.h.M. (I.S.W. 1987–88) received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on May 18 from Stony Brook University where she served as chaplain in Catholic campus ministry for 22 years.

2000sGaRy aDleR (M.A. 2002) com-pleted a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His research focuses on transnational immersion/solidarity trips, as well as the political activities and moral boundaries of congregations. He lives in LA with his wife Selena and is the director of research at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at USC.

Jed and aMy RiChaRDson (M.Div. 2009) and Erica and Mike sWeitzeR-BeCkMan (M.Div. 2008) recently welcomed children to the world! Maya Marie Richardson was born on May 2, 2012 at 3:13 am and Ruth Grace Sweitzer-Beckman was born on

July 26, 2012 at 1:04 pm. All babies, moms and dads are doing great, and are enjoying living in the Madison, WI area. Amy is a campus minister at Edgewood High School and Mike is director of development at Holy Wisdom Monastery.

ReV. oCtaVe uGiRasheBuJa, s.J. (N.D. 2011) I am sad to report the sudden death of a great companion, Fr. Octave, on May 18, 2012. Fr. Octave was hit by a motorcycle in Kigali, Rwanda that caused head injuries and internal bleeding. In his 70’s, Fr. Octave had seen me and most fellow young Jesuits in the Rwanda/Burundi Region grow in our love for the Society. — AMDG, Innocent Rugaragu, S.J.

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Conversion and Syncretism: Indigenous Encounters with Missionary Christianity, 1800–2000, eds., David Lindenfeld and Miles Richardson (New York: Berghan Books, 2012), pp. 167–194.

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