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Thomas J. Massaro, SJ, has been named the new dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, effective July 1, 2012.
Massaro is a professor of moral theology at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry.
He is the author of American Catholic Social Teaching (Liturgical Press, 2002), Catholic Perspectives on Peace and War, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), United States. Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response (Georgetown University Press, 2007), and Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action, Second Classroom Edition, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012). |
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Rev. Paul Kollman, CSC, has been named the executive director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns. Kollman, an associate professor of theology at Notre Dame, has spent the spring semester teaching theology at Tangaza College, Nairobi.
Kollman has worked with the Center on Social Concerns since 2004, recently serving as its acting director. He is a fellow of Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
His theological scholarship and teaching focus on African Christianity, mission history, and world Christianity. He wrote The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa (Orbis Books, 2005) and is working on a study of the Catholic Charismatic Movement in Africa. |
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| Gregory E. Sterling, the dean of the Graduate School at the University of Notre Dame, has been appointed The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of the Divinity School at Yale University. The five-year appointment begins August 1, 2012. Sterling earned his doctorate in biblical studies, with a specialization in the New Testament, from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. |
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The 2012 Study on Educational Debt and Vocations to Religious Life found that some religious communities turn away applicants with high student loan debt and that other communities ask applicants with debt to delay their applications. Most communities worked with the applicants with debt and some assumed the debt of applicants. The study that was conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University found that about one-third of those who made serious applications to religious communities in the past decade averaged $28,000 in educational debt.
The National Religious Vocations Conference, which asked CARA to conduct the study, states on its website that it plans to bring together people to explore solutions to the problem and publish a book of guidelines on educational debt for major superiors, vocation directors, and financial officers of religious institutes.
For more information, visit http://cara.georgetown.edu/index.html |
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The revised National Certification Standards for Lay Ecclesial Ministers can be found on the website of the Alliance for the Certification of Lay Ecclesial Ministers www.lemcertification.org/. The certification process and procedures can be downloaded from the site, as well as the colleague and pastor recommendation forms.
The Committee on Certification and Accreditation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops granted approval of the revised standards and procedures in October 2011. National certification is available to directors of worship, pastoral liturgy coordinators, pastoral associates, directors of music ministries, parish catechetical leaders, youth ministry leaders, and diocesan youth ministry leaders.
Through the Alliance, the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, the National Association of Lay Ministers, National Association for Pastoral Musicians, the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, and the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry work to produce common standards for lay ecclesial ministry and to implement and promote the certification of lay ecclesial ministers.
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Felician College, the Franciscan College of New Jersey, is offering online graduate programs in religious education. Course are offered for the master’s in religious education, master’s certificate in religious education, and for those with a master’s degree in theology or related field, a post-master’s certificate in religious education.
For more information, visit www.felician.edu. |
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Quest: An Online Journal of Religion and Science, a web-based journal, explores the intersection between religion and science, considering especially the role of women in this area. The journal is housed at the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and funded in part by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
For more information, visit www3.saintmarys.edu/quest/journal. |
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| The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy’s online journal Oblation: Liturgy and Evangelization will examine the role of liturgy in the evangelical mission of the Church. Articles and columns will be on liturgy, catechesis, and spirituality. The journal can be accessed at http://blogs.nd.edu/oblation/. |
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The graduate theology program at the University of Notre Dame is partnering with the Satellite Theological Education Program (STEP) to offer theology courses online for a master of arts degree. Professors from the Department of Theology design the courses that STEP delivers. To register for courses, students must enroll in the University of Notre Dame Graduate School.
For more information, call 574-631-4254. |
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The Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California, offers a Master of Arts in Ministry for a Multicultural Church (MAMC). The two-year degree integrates theological reflection, congregational studies, supervised field education, spiritual formation, and academic theological education.
For more information, visit www.fst.edu/academics/mamc.html. |
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The Loyola Pastoral Life Center and Ministry Training Source are offering the two-course online program “Reflecting on Lay Ecclesial Ministry, Preparing for National Certification.”
For more information, visit www.loyno.edu/lplc/nationalcertification. |
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Carolyn Woo, PhD, is the new president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services.
Until assuming the position on January 1, 2012, Woo was the dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Before coming to Notre Dame, she was the associate executive vice president of academic affairs at Purdue University. She also had directed Purdue’s Professional Master’s Programs in the Krannert School of Management and served as a professor and assistant professor.
As a member of the CRS board of directors from 2004 to 2010, Woo visited Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kenya, where the agency serves the needs of the people.
She was born in Hong Kong, where she was educated by the Maryknoll Sisters of Ossining, and came to the United States to attend Purdue University, where she received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. |
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Hosffman Ospino, an assistant professor at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, is directing a two-year study of Hispanic ministry in Catholic parishes in the United States. The study will survey parishes, missions, and shrines, assessing the impact of Hispanics and determining how parishes are meeting their needs.
A $200,000 grant is funding the National Study of Catholic Parishes with Hispanic Ministry. The study will focus on models of Hispanic ministry, leadership in Hispanic ministry, and religious education in Hispanic parishes.
Ospino serves as editor of Hispanic Ministry in the 21st Century: Present and Future and is an officer in the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States. |
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The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy is offering a series of online seminars on the art of prayer.
“Lift Up Your Hearts: Seminars in Liturgical and Spiritual Formation” will be modeled on the apostolic exhortation, Sacramentum Caritatis, by Pope Benedict XVI. The seminars will reflect on liturgical and non-liturgical prayer in the modes: the mystery of Christ to be believed, the mystery of Christ to be celebrated, and the mystery of Christ to be lived.
Seminars will feature the following topics: “Benedictine Spirituality in the Home,” with Maxwell Johnson, PhD; “Chant in the Liturgy,” with Mary Catherine Levri, MTS; “The Poetics of Prayer: Forming the Liturgical Imagination,” Timothy O’Malley, PhD; “A Lenten Bible Study,” Gary Anderson, PhD; “Methods for Prayer in the Family,” Fred and Lisa Everett; “Mytagogical Musings,” J. Michael Joncas, SLD; “The History of the Eucharistic Prayer,” John Baldovin, SJ, and the “Spiritual Formation of the Choir,” Steven C. Warner, MA.
Participants will view videos recorded by scholars and pastoral musicians and read texts associated with the themes. The texts and videos will be discussed in a chat room.
Groups or individuals may sign up for the seminars. For more information, email ndcl@nd.edu.
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The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies has made available transcripts and videos of the conference “Twenty-Somethings and the Church: Lost?”Among the topics on the videos are: “On Your Own?” “Sex and the City of God,” “Frenemies? Popular Culture and the Catholic Church,” “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: Yearnings of the Spirit,” “An Inconvenient Truth: Reasons to Love or Lose Catholicism,” and “Lost and Found: Nobody does it alone, Jack.”
For more information, visit www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/francis_and_ann_curr/conferences_74402.asp. |
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Applications for the 2012 National Clergy Renewal Program are due May 11, 2012.
The Lilly Endowment-funded program provides congregations with a grant that allows the pastor to step away from daily ministerial duties to regain enthusiasm and creativity for ministry. Grants fund a number of ways that a pastor might find renewal. Some pastors travel, others write, and some pursue an interest.
Congregations may receive up to $45,000 in the grant. During the 12 years of the Clergy Renewal Program, nearly $29 million in grants has been distributed to about 700 congregations.
For more information, call Jean M. Smith, 317–916–7302 or visit www.lillyendowment.org/religion_ncr.html. |
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Notre Dame Vision offers separate conferences for youth and youth and campus ministers during the summer. The youth conferences give high schoolers space to ask questions about life, faith, their gifts, and service. At the conferences for campus and youth ministers, people have the chance to renew their call in an atmosphere of prayer.
For more information, visit vision.nd.edu/Welcome_to_Notre_Dame_Vision/Notre_Dame_Vision.html. |
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The annual Catholics on Call Conference at Catholic Theological Union is designed for young women and men considering a life of service in the Church and would like guidance in determining how God is calling them.
The conference is scheduled for July 31 to August 4, 2012, at Catholic Theological Union. For more information, visit www.CatholicsOnCall.org. |
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The Satellite Theological Education Program (STEP) at the University of Notre Dame offers certificates of Catholic theology in doctrine, scripture, liturgy, ethics and morality, and Church history
The program allows students to continue learning on an individualized basis and assists them in meeting certification standards criteria for the diaconate or lay ecclesial ministry.
For more information, visit www.STEP.nd.edu. |
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The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University is offering its Catholic Ministry Formation Directory online. The directory provides a detailed analysis of participants in Catholic ministry formation programs and a listing of the more than 600 Catholic ministry formation programs that the Church sponsors in the United States.
More information is available at cara.georgetown.edu/index.html. |
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The Development of the Roman Missal, an exhibit that explores the history of the Missal, will be at St. Meinrad Archabbey Library at St. Meinrad Seminary, St. Meinrad, Indiana, until June 30, 2012.
Rare and important Missals are part of the exhibit, which includes commentary and an English translation of passages by the seminary's advanced Latin class.
For more information, visit www.SaintMeinrad.edu/library/library_hours.aspx. |
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Saint Meinrad School of Theology offers a certification program in supervision in the areas of homiletics and pastoral care.
Ryan LaMothe, PhD, a professor of pastoral counseling at Saint Meinrad’s, is the director of the pastoral care portion, and Richard C. Stern, EdD, professor of homiletics at St. Meinrad's directs the homiletics portion. The program seeks to increase listening and communication skills, the ability to critically analyze pastoral practice, and the understanding of skills in the art of supervision.
To apply, contact Norma Ramsey for application forms; e-mail nramsey@saintmeinrad.edu or call: (812) 357–6791.
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| Saint Meinrad School of Theology offers the Ecclesial Lay Ministry Formation program to assist dioceses in forming lay ministers for parish leadership. The program reflects the four pillars of formation outlined in the U.S. Bishops’ document Co-workers in the Vineyard of the Lord. For more information, contact Maria Schaefer, mschaefer@saintmeinrad.edu or (800) 634–6723.
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| Beginning in Fall 2012, the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, will offer a master of arts degree with a concentration in Interreligious Studies. More information is available at www.GTU.edu. |
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Lilly Endowment, Inc., has awarded a total of more than $2.5 million in grants to three entities for their programs for youth.
Receiving the grants are: St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, St. Meinrad, Indiana, $895,000 for its “One Bread, One Cup” liturgical youth program; the St. John's School of Theology Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota, $875,000 for its Youth and Theology and Ministry program; and the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, $775,000.00 for its Peacebuilders Initiative.
Each of the institutions will use the grant money to make its program self-sustaining. |
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New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond has been elected chairman-elect of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Divine Worship. Aymond will serve for a year in that position before succeeding Bishop Arthur Seratelli as chairman of the CDW.
Aymond has served as a member of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth and the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.
The New Orleans native earned a master's degree in divinity from Notre Dame Seminary in 1975, the same year he was ordained to the priesthood. He has served as professor, business administrator and rector of St. John Vianney Preparatory Seminary, New Orleans, and professor of pastoral theology and homiletics, director of education, and president-rector of Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans. |
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