STM Faculty News
Daniel J. Daly, associate professor of moral theology, published “Guidelines for Rationing Treatment During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Catholic Approach” in the May/June 2020 edition of Health Progress. He also published a chapter, “Critical Realism, Virtue Ethics, and Moral Agency,” in Moral Agency within Social Structures and Culture.
Andrew R. Davis, associate professor of Old Testament, recently was awarded one of eight grants from the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) in conjunction with the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA). Davis’s $19,000 grant supports his upcoming book project Satire and Prophetic Identity in the Hebrew Bible.
Brian Dunkle, S.J., assistant professor of historical theology, recently published an introduction and translation of St. Ambrose of Milan’s Treatises on Noah and David for the Catholic University Press.
Thomas H. Groome, professor of theology and religious education, recently completed a new book, What Makes Education Catholic, the latest of more than a dozen foundational texts he has authored or co-edited. They include Catholic Spiritual Practices: Treasures Old and New (edited with Dr. Colleen Griffith); Reclaiming Catholicism: Treasures Old and New (edited with Michael Dale); and What Makes Us Catholic: Eight Gifts for Life (HarperCollins, 2002), which has been hailed as a classic and foundational text in religious education. Groome is teaching a course based on his newest book this summer at STM.
Angela Kim Harkins., associate professor of New Testament, published “Looking at the Shepherd of Hermas through the Experience of Lived Religion” (open access; de Gruyter press); “Emotion and Law in the Book of Baruch” (de Gruyter press), and “Experiencing the Solidity of Spaces in the Qumran Hodayot” (SBL Press). She has been named the incoming president of the New England/Eastern Canada Regional Society of Biblical Literature, which will meet in March 2021.
Mary Jo Iozzio, professor of moral theology, was the Distinguished Professor and Austin and Ann O’Malley Visiting Chair at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in fall semester 2019. She delivered the 2019 Austin and Ann O’Malley Bioethics Lecture “Radical Bioethics: Disability, Difference, and Desiderata” at Loyola Marymount University in October, and published “A Bridge over Troubled Assumptions: Metanoia and Praxes for Disability Inclusion” in An Ethic for Bridge Building: Practical Theologizing in the 21st Century, Tom Kelly and Robert Pennington, eds. (New York: Herder and Herder Press, 2020). She also published “Advent Anticipation in a Time of Endless War,” The First, the newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, December 1, 2019, https://catholicethics.com/forum/advent-anticipation-in-a-time-of-endless-war/ and “Concerns for People with Disability During COVID-19” in the Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, Georgetown University, April 15, 2020, https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/concerns-for-people-with-disability-during-covid-19. She presented several other talks, including to the Bi-annual Meeting of the Directors of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Philadelphia, Penn., and the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Richard Lennan, professor of systematic theology, published a chapter, “Ministry in the Church,” in the Cambridge Companion to Vatican II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
In March, he gave two presentations in Australia: “Contrast, Conversion, and Hope: Steps to a Listening and Learning Church,” in Melbourne; and “Theology for a Future-Oriented Church: Surveying the Possibilities,” in Sydney. While in Australia, he participated in a week-long writing workshop, drafting a report on reforms to governance in the Catholic Church that was presented to the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in May 2020. It will be a key text for the Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australia in 2021–22.
Hosffman Ospino, associate professor of Hispanic ministry and religious education, recently delivered several lectures, including “Embracing American Catholicism’s Hispanic Character in the Twenty-First Century” (at Seattle University) and “American Catholic Contours and Detours in a Fifty-Percent Hispanic/Latino Church” at the Lumen Christi Institute on the campus of the University of Chicago. He was a keynote speaker at a Los Angeles, California, symposium commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr. Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers. Ospino was also appointed the new chair of the STM’s Department of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry (DREPM).
Michael R. Simone, S.J., assistant professor of the practice of Scripture and interpretation offered days of reflection at two monastic houses during the spring semester: “Reflections on Consecrated Life and Scripture” at the Mepkin Trappist Abbey in Moncks Corner, S.C., and “Encounter and Transformation: The Sunday Gospels of Lent Year A” at Newark Benedictine Abbey in Newark.
Andrea Vicini, S.J., professor of moral theology, the Michael P. Walsh Professor of Bioethics, and an affiliate member of the Ecclesiastical Faculty, published “Preserving the Earth and Promoting Health: Challenges for the Common Good” in the journal Studia Moralia and the article “Life in the Time of Coronavirus” in the English, Italian, and Spanish editions of the Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica. Another article, “The Ongoing Pandemic: An Urgent Call to Global Solidarity,” appears on the Global Public Health website at Boston College. At Boston College, Vicini delivered the lecture “Artificial Intelligence: Bioethical Challenges,” organized by the Bioethics Society of Boston College. In addition, he was appointed a member of the international scientific committee of the journal Studia Moralia.