John Baldovin, S.J. delivered a paper in January on “Liturgical Revision and Lutheran Eucharistic Prayers” at the North American Academy of Liturgy in Vancouver, BC. He wrote an article entitled “The Recent Reform of the Roman Liturgy” in Sewanee Theological Review 61. He also gave a lecture, “Contemporary Issues in the Eucharist,” at the Ecumenical Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at St. Peter's Church in New York City.

James Bretzke, S.J. offered several presentations including “Strategic Alliance or Faustian Compact? Reconsidering Religious Support One Year Out for President Trump and the GOP” at the Annual Convention of the New England Maritimes Region of the American Academy of Religion, “Responsum ad Dubia: Harmonizing Veritatis splendor and Amoris laetitia with Gaudete et Exsulatate” at the conference: Pope Francis, A Voice Crying Out in the World: Mercy, Justice, Love and Care for the Earth at Villanova University. Bretzke published “Responsum ad Dubia: Harmonizing Veritatis splendor and Amoris laetitia through a Conscience-Informed Casuistry” in Journal of Catholic Social Thought in addition to two scholarly reviews.

Brian Dunkle, S.J. was the Patricia H. Imbesi Fellow at the Augustinian Institute at Villanova University during the spring 2018 semester.

Mary Jo Iozzio edited Sex and Gender: Christian Ethical Reflections with Patricia Beattie Jung, and Engaging Disability, a thematic issue addressing Catholic concerns in the Journal of Moral Theology with Miguel J. Romero. She also published “God Bends Over Backwards to Accommodate Humankind ... While the US Civil Rights Acts and the Americans with Disabilities Act Require [Only] the Minimum” in Journal of Moral Theology.

Angela Kim Harkins Angela Kim Harkins gave 2 invited papers, one paper on emotion and law in Baruch in the deuterocanonical section at the SBL meeting in Boston and a paper at the Dead Sea Scrolls at Seventy conference held at New York University in November. She also served as a respondent to a joint session of the Religious Experience and Sensory Cultures unit of the SBL. Harkins published one short essay on the “Hodayot” in the Early Jewish Literature: An Anthology published by Eerdmans and was awarded a Peer Mentoring Cluster Grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion for the academic year 2018-2019.

Melissa Kelley gave presentations on grief and resilience at St. Susanna Parish in Dedham, Massachusetts, and to spiritual directors through the Office of Ignatian Spirituality of the Maryland and USA Northeast Provinces of the Society of Jesus.

Richard Lennan published “Karl Rahner” in The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology.

Christopher Matthews revised the introduction to and notes on the Acts of the Apostles, which appears (pp. 1955-2007) in the recently published (ca. March), fully revised, Fifth Edition of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha. His three studies of miracle accounts in the Acts of Philip were recently published (December 2017) in the Kompendium der frühchristlichen Wundererzählungen. Band 2, Die Wunder der Apostel, edited by Ruben Zimmermann.

Catherine Mooney will speak in Madrid, Spain about the new research included in her revised and expanded biography of Saint Philippine Duchesne (d. 1852). The 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies meeting in May 2018, devoted a session to the discussion of Mooney’s recent book, Clare of Assisi and the Thirteenth-Century Church: Religious Women, Rules, and Resistance.

Hosffman Ospino received the Lumen Gentium Award from the Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development, a national award. He published The Gospel of Joy in America: Landscape and Priorities for Evangelization in the United States in the Twenty-First Century in English and Spanish with Convivium Press and co-edited Restoring Hope Archbishop Oscar Romero’s Vision for a Just World (In His Own Words) with Felix Palazzi, as well as additional articles, book chapters and book reviews.

Nancy Pineda-Madrid received the Outstanding Educator Award 2018 from Latina Center ‘Maria’ for service to the Latina/o community in the Greater Boston area. She also published “Tráfico sexual y feminicidio a lo largo de la frontera: remembranza de nuestras hijas” in Arqueología de la violencia, and two articles, “Nuevos paradigmas en el pensamiento y el lenguaje para la praxis no violenta” and “¡Somos Criaturas de Dios! – Seeing and Beholding the Garden of God” in Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice.

Andrea Vicini, S.J. presented “Global Public Health and Sustainability: Promoting the Common Good” at the 4th Annual Advancing Research and Scholarship Day: Research and the Common Good at Boston College and “La possibile esistenza di vita biologica nell’universo: Implicazioni teologiche (The possible existence of biological life in the universe: theological implications),” at Festival Biblico (Biblical Festival) in Verona, Italy.