STM Faculty News
Thomas H. Groome, professor of theology and religious education, received the Catholic Press Association’s first place award in the “Popular Presentation of Catholic Faith” category for his book Faith for the Heart (Paulist Press, Sept 2019).
Angela Kim Harkins, associate professor of New Testament, was elected to the Societas Novi Testamenti Studiorum (SNTS) in July 2020. She also served as a respondent to Giovanni Bazzana’s discussion of his new book, Having the Spirit of Christ (Yale UP, 2020), at an event hosted by the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School in early October.
Mary Jo Iozzio, professor of moral theology, published “If You Sow Lies You Will Reap Violence: America’s Original Sin is Anti-Black Racism” in The FIRST, the newsletter of Catholic Theological Ethics
in the World Church, September 1, 2020. She is currently chairing the search committee for new co-editors of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.
Rafael Luciani, associate professor of the practice, edited En camino hacia una Iglesia Sinodal: de Pablo VI a Francisco (PPC, Madrid 2020), which includes his essay “Reforma, conversión pastoral y sinodalidad. Un nuevo modo eclesial de proceder.” He also published several other articles and essays, including “Francis and the Pastoral Geopolitics of Peoples and Their Cultures: A Structural Option for the Poor,”Theological Studies 81 (2020), among others.
Christopher R. Matthews, editor, and David W. Jorgensen, assistant editor, published the first issue of volume 64 of New Testament Abstracts in July 2020. This issue contains 450 article abstracts and 150 book notices.
Catherine Mooney, associate professor of Church history, has published “Clare of Assisi and the Song of Songs” in “Non enim fuerat Evangelii surdus auditor …” (1 Celano 22): Essays in Honor of Michael W. Blastic, O.F.M. on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday, eds. Michael F. Cusato and Steven J. McMichael (Boston: Brill, 2020). She contributed commentaries to the University of Buenos Aires’s series on Ethics, Human Rights and Film in the Context of a Pandemic: “Black Robe: Conflicto cultural y cuestiones éticas,” and the co-authored, “Wit: Death Is a Comma.” As president of the Hagiography Society, she recently directed its annual book Prize competition, the revision of its constitutions, and changes to its book series editorial board.
Hosffman Ospino, associate professor of Hispanic ministry and religious education, published a book chapter, “Hispanics and Family Life in Twenty-First Century America: A Catholic Call to Action,” in Renewing Catholic Family Life and Spirituality: Experts Explore New Directions in Family Spirituality and Family Ministry; a second book chapter in Chile “Catequesis en tiempos de angustia existencial” (“Catechesis in Times of Existential Anxiety”), in Después de la Pandemia; Qué catechesis?, and the essay “The Imperative of Affirming Diverse Voices in the Envisioning of Pedagogies for Peaceful Coexistence” in Religious Education. Among several presentations, he delivered the opening keynote for the Lay Marianist Assembly, “Feeling the Pulse: American Catholicism in a Time of Change,” and the opening keynote for the series on the New Directory for Catechesis organized by the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership (NCCL), “A New Directory for Catechesis for a New Time in the Life of the Church and the World.”
Michael Simone, S.J., assistant professor of the practice, and Joseph Weiss, S.J., professor of the practice, co-edited the Spring/Summer 2020 issue of C21 Resources, “Catholic Parishes: Grace at Work,” on the topic of parish life. Simone also wrote “God’s Bench,” an article that appears in the issue, and participated in a webinar sponsored by the C21 Center in September 2020 that focused on the issue.
Andrea Vicini, S.J., co-edited Reimagining the Moral Life: On Lisa Sowle Cahill’s Contributions to Christian Ethics (Orbis, 2020), which includes his chapter, “Transformative Engagement in Dialogue.” He also published two book reviews in the journal Rivista di Teologia dell’Evangelizzazione: (1) P. Benanti, F. Compagnoni, A. Fumagalli, G. Piana, eds., Teologia Morale (2019) and (2) F. D’Agostino, Bioetica: Questioni di Confine (2019). He gave three lectures: (1) “La Colaboración y la Promoción del Bien Común como Estilo de Vinculación de los Eticistas Teológicos en América Latina” (“Collaboration and the Promotion of the Common Good as a Connecting Style of Theological Ethicists in Latin America”) during the virtual Coloquio Latinoamericano de Ética Teológica: COVID-19 y los Retos Éticos en la Región: Construyendo Puentes entre Ética Teológica, Iglesia y Sociedad, organized by the network Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church; (2) “Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Practice” at the virtual seminar Artificial Intelligence and Society, organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture and Santa Clara University; and (3) “Artificial Intelligence and Social Control: Theological Concerns and Resources” at the Ethics Seminar of the Boston College Theology Department. Finally, he was co-host of The Show @ 6: BC and the Common Good on the topic of “Global Public Health.”