CSTM Faculty News
John F. Baldovin, S.J., professor of historical and liturgical theology, published “Reform in Motion: Vatican II and the Liturgy” in Catherine Clifford and Stephen Lampe, Vatican II at 60: Re-Energizing the Renewal, Maryknoll: Orbis, 2024, 45-62.
André Brouillette, S.J., associate professor of systematic and spiritual theology, delivered the Annual Jesuit Lecture at St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, on March 20. The lecture was titled “Pilgrimage and the Spirit of the Church: Between Movement and Synodality.” His book, The Pilgrim Paradigm, has been translated into Korean.
Vicente Chong, S.J., visiting assistant professor of systematic theology, gave the lecture “Heart and Tears: A Theological Aesthetics of Longing” on April 18 for Continuing Education at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College.
Dr. Dominic F. Doyle, associate professor in systematic theology, gave the 5th Annual Rev. Hugh Crean Distinguished Lecture in Catholic Thought at the St. Augustine Center for Ethics, Religion, and Culture at Elms College, Chicopee, MA, on May 1. The title of the lecture was “A Post-Thomistic Christian Humanism? Catholic Hegelianism and the Theology of Hope.”
Rev. Brian Dunkle, S.J., associate professor of historical theology, gave the following lectures: “Time and Subjectivity in Early Western Monastic Hymns,” North American Patristics Society, Chicago on May 25; and “Amplification in Early Christian Literature and Worship,” Loyola Chair Lecture, Fordham University, March 6.
Thomas H. Groome, professor of theology and religious education, preached a homily on Trinity Sunday (May 26) on the Catholic Homilies Podcast PREACH from America media, which can be found here:
https://www.americamagazine.org/preach-podcast-catholic-homilies
Angela Kim Harkins, professor of New Testament and professor ordinaria, presented a paper titled “Applying Contemplative Pedagogies to the Teaching of the Gospels: Using Art and Images in the Study of Sacred Texts” at the conference on Sacred Arts in a Pluralistic Society, hosted by the Vancouver School of Theology on May 22 in Canada. She also gave an invited presentation to Dr. Michael Daise’s class at the University of William and Mary on the topic “Is the Shepherd of Hermas a ‘Failed Apocalypse’?” on March 19. Along with Dr. Christopher Constas (Philosophy; Perspectives program director), Dr. Harkins received an Institute for the Liberal Arts major grant from the Provost’s Office to bring George Drance, S.J., to BC for a performance of the Gospel of Mark (titled *mark) at the Bonn Studio Theatre in October 2024.
Richard Lennan, professor ordinarius of systematic theology, presented a one-day inservice in March for priests of the Archdiocese of Boston on the theme “Signs of the Times.” In April, he presented a one-day inservice for the Carmelite Sisters of Boston on the theme “Synodality,” and was a member of the panel presenting on the theme of “Listening” for the Boston Theological and Interreligious Consortium. Together with his co-editor Peter Fritz, Professor Lennan completed the manuscript for Karl Rahner’s Spiritual Theology, which Paulist Press will publish as part of the Classics in Western Spirituality series.
Rafael Luciani, extraordinary professor of the CSTM ecclesiastical faculty, continues to serve the Global Church as peritus (theological expert) for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in the Vatican. He is involved in the drafting of the documents and is senior member of the team in charge of the synodal process in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also serves as expert of the theological commissions of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) and the Confederation of Latin American Religious (CLAR). Finally, he continues to be co-coordinator of the Peter and Paul Seminar. Recently, due to his academic excellence on ecclesiology and his global ecclesial engagement, Professor Luciani was awarded an honorary degree of doctor honoris causa in theology by the Faculty of Theology of the Dominican Aquinas Institute of Theology (USA) and the Dominican Order. Some of his recent peer-reviewed articles are: “Genesi e sviluppo di un`ecclesialità sinodale,” in Gilles Routhier and Myriam Wijlens, Diversità e unità. Ripensare il munus docendi delle conferenze episcopali in una Chiesa mondiale, EDB, Bologna (2023), 211-240; “La reconfiguración de las identidades y las relaciones de los sujetos eclesiales en una Iglesia Pueblo de Dios,” Revista Teologia 143 (2024), 39-75; and “Divenire una Chiesa sinodale: Tensioni, conflitti, consensus,” Credere Oggi 44 (2024), 99-120. He also edited the volume “El ministerio apostólico en una Iglesia sinodal” in Revista Seminarios 67/231 (2022). Finally, he has authored a new book published in Italian and Spanish: Sinodalmente. Forma e riforma di una Chiesa sinodale, Edizioni Nerbini, Firenze (2022); in Spanish, Sinodalmente. Forma y reforma de una Iglesia sinodal, PPC, Madrid (2023).
Christina McRorie, associate professor of moral theology, published a post on the Forum of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, arguing that in a knowledge economy, education has become as important for achieving the universal destination of goods as fair wages were in an industrial economy and access to land was in an agrarian economy. In this sense, education is now a new “corner of the field,” and serves as a key way to ensure the poor have access to dignified participation in economic life.
Catherine Mooney, associate professor of Church history, delivered the CSTM’s Annual Women in Theology and Ministry Lecture, titled “They Were There: Women Who Built the Church and Shaped Christianity,” in April. You can view it soon on the Clough School of Theology and Ministry’s YouTube site. In May, Professor Mooney gave a panel presentation on “How to Edit a Book of Scholarly Essays” at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Michigan.
Hosffman Ospino was promoted to full professor. He established the first set of structures for Nuevo Momento, the five-year project he is overseeing, and secured the participation of 15 Catholic Hispanic ministry organizations. At Boston College, he hosted a national conversation with pastoral leaders working with Hispanic young Catholics and TENx10, a groundbreaking national initiative that seeks to reignite the commitment to the Christian faith of 10 million young people in 10 years. He was one of 100 participants invited to a national summit organized by the Paulist Fathers addressing the topic of polarization in the Catholic Church. Professor Ospino visited the Diocese of Venice (Florida), Diocese of Providence (Rhode Island), Diocese of Green Bay (Wisconsin), and Archdiocese of New York, where he gave ministerial presentations and met with leaders to collect data for some of the studies on Hispanic ministry he is conducting.