CSTM Faculty News

John F. Baldovin, S.J., professor of historical and liturgical theology, gave the plenary address, "A Reform in Peril: Sacrosanctum Concilium at 60," on December 3, 2024, for a symposium marking the 60th anniversary of Vatican II's Liturgy Constitution at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne, Australia.

André Brouillette, S.J., associate professor of systematic and spiritual theology, published “Thérèse d’Avila : Religieuse, sainte et docteure,” in the journal En son nom 81 (2023): 59-66, as part of a thematic issue on female doctors and mystics, and the reflections around “Theology and Pilgrimage” for the website of UK group Hearts in Search of God: The Pilgrim Ways. In Boston, he gave three lectures on October 4, 2023, in the continuing ed program for Boston priests, around the theme of "Learning Discernment and Spiritual Growth from St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius of Loyola.” He also recorded a podcast episode about "Jesuits and pilgrimage" (in French) for the show "Marcher vers le bien-être" (Walking toward wellness) at Radio VM in Montréal, Canada. 

Vicente Chong, S.J., visiting assistant professor of systematic theology, published the article "Oscar Romero: A Theology of Symbol" in Theologica Xaveriana, vol. 74 (2014), 1-28.

Brian Dunkle, S.J., associate professor of historical theology, as the Loyola Chair at Fordham University for the academic year, published: --“Ambrose’s Hymns as Modes of Knowing the ‘Real,’” in The Intellectual World of Christian Late Antiquity: Reshaping Classical Traditions, edited by Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, and Matthew Crawford, 388–403. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2023.--“Power, Persuasion, and Justice in Patristic Accounts of Christ's Victory over Satan,” in The New Ressourcement 1 (2024). Fr. Dunkle also delivered the 2023 Loyola lecture "From Rivalry to Revelry: Modes of Reception in Early Christian Poetry and Worship."

Angela Kim Harkins, professor of New Testament and professor Ordinaria, presented two invited papers at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting at San Antonio, TX in November 2023. Her first paper, “John of Patmos Meets Tanya M. Luhrmann in the Heavenly Throne Room,” was for a special commemorative review of John H. Elliott’s Work in the Social-Scientific Criticism of the New Testament program unit. The second paper presentation was titled, “Reading Daniel as an Immersive Narrative.” She has been invited to serve a term on the advisory board of Estudios Biblicos, a biblical studies journal published by the Ecclesiastical University of San Dámaso (Madrid, Spain) in collaboration with the Spanish Biblical Association. In February, she gave a presentation titled, “Experiencing the Journey,” from her new book on the Shepherd of Hermas to the North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocryphal Literature. She was recently interviewed about her new book, An Embodied Reading of the Shepherd of Hermas: The Book of Visions and its Role in Moral Formation (Equinox, 2023), for a podcast in the Biblical Studies category of the New Books Network, which was published on February 5.

Callid Keefe-Perry, assistant professor of contextual education and public theology, is featured in a Boston College Libraries Faculty Publication Highlights video interview about his book Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination, which was published in 2023.

Richard Lennan, professor of systematic theology and chair of the ecclesiastical faculty, presented a paper, "Grace amidst Dislocation: On Being Responsive to Social and Ecclesial Complexity," at a symposium in Rome in December 2023; the symposium was on the future of the priesthood and was organized through the Australian Catholic University.  He published "Shaping the Church's Future: The Grace of Creative Faithfulness” in The Australasian Catholic Record in February 2024.

Christina McRorie, associate professor of moral theology, published a chapter titled “Catholic Social Thought and Reparations” in Reparations and the Theological Disciplines: Prophetic Voices for Remembrance, Reckoning, and Repair, edited by Michael Barram, Drew Hart, Gimbaya Kettering, and Michael Rhodes. Lexington Books (2023).

Catherine M. Mooney, associate professor of Church history, published an entry on the medieval lay Franciscan Angela of Foligno in Medieval Studies: Routledge Resources Online.

Hosffman Ospino, professor of Hispanic ministry and religious education, will be the principal investigator and director of Nuevo Momento: Leadership and Capacity Building for Ministerial Organizations Serving Hispanic Catholics, supported by a $15 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc. The project aims at strengthening capacity for at least 12 Catholic organizations engaged in Hispanic ministry and forming a new generation of leaders who can successfully lead them into a viable future. He published the article “Our Children, Their Lives, Their Faith” in Religious Education (December 2023) and served as guest-editor for the entire issue 118.5 (2023) of this academic journal. He was invited to join the board of directors of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University. He delivered the 30th Annual Christopher F. Mooney, S.J., Lecture in Theology, Religion & Society at Fairfield University. He was invited to a national consultation with Catholic leaders at Georgetown University on “Strengthening Catholic Social Thought in Public Life” and a consultation with Catholic bishops and theologians at the University of San Diego on the topic “Laudato Si’: Protecting Our Common Home, Building Our Common Church.” He delivered keynote presentations at the Diocese of Raleigh’s Eucharistic Congress; the Mexican American Catholic College; the Lighting the Way Forward conference on Catholic higher education, hosted by the University of San Diego; and the Exchange meeting organized in Dallas by the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM). He gave presentations to ministerial leaders in the Archdiocese of Newark, the Diocese of Birmingham, the Diocese of Norwich, and the Diocese of Camden.