Graduate School Welcomes Reverend Mark Pilon Back to Faculty
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It is with great joy and enthusiasm that the Christendom Graduate School welcomes back Associate Professor of Theology, Rev. Mark Pilon, STD. Fr. Pilon previously taught at the Graduate School from 1978 to 1992, when it was the Notre Dame Catechetical Institute. Fr. Pilon was also an Associate Professor of Theology at Christendom College (undergraduate) from 1987 until 1990. A native of Detroit, MI, Fr. Pilon was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Arlington on November 29, 1975. In addition to holding an STL in Moral Theology from the Lateran University’s John Paul II Institute and an STD from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Fr. Pilon also has degrees in English and Educational Administration. Fr. Pilon taught high school English in Detroit, MI, and Alexandria, VA, from 19661970. He was an Assistant Publisher and Contributing Editor of Triumph magazine from 1970-1975, and in 1969 was one of the founders of the Christian Commonwealth Summer Institute in El Escorial, Spain, a program he also administered for several years before his ordination. In 1975, the summer program became the Kairos Summer Institute, and Fr. Pilon taught theology for the Institute for several summers until it ceased operations in 1986. After ordination in 1975, Fr. Pilon taught religion at Arlington’s Bishop O’Connell High School from 1977 to 1985, and was appointed chaplain and vice principal in 1981, a post that he held for four years. In addition to teaching at the Notre Dame Institute and Christendom College, Fr. Pilon was also a visiting professor at Catholic University of America’s School of Education in 1978. Fr. Pilon has served as Associate Professor of Systematic Theology for the past nine years at Mt. St. Mary Seminary, and was the Theology Department Chairman for the Seminary from 2004-2009. Christendom President Dr. Timothy O’Donnell is delighted that Fr. Pilon will be returning to teach at Christendom’s graduate school this fall. “Fr. Pilon is a great teacher and has been a great friend and supporter of Christendom College over the years,” he noted. “We welcome him back to our graduate school faculty with joy. I know he will make a great contribution to our program’s academic excellence in service to the Church.”
Fr. Pilon also serves as a Parochial Vicar at St. Raymond of Peñafort in Fairfax Station, VA, and has written extensively in the fields of systematic and moral theology. Some of his works include The Church: A Commentary on Lumen Gentium (Kairos Publications, 1984), Magnum Mysterium: The Dignity of Marriage and the Family (Kairos, 1985), and Pastors and Stability in Office (Homiletic and Pastoral Review, May 2006). He also has translated two of the major theological works of the Spanish scholar, Fr. Candido Pozo, SJ; A Commentary on the Credo of the People of God (Franciscan Herald Press, 1984), an excellent commentary on the latest Creed of the Catholic Church; and Theology of the Beyond, Fr. Pozo’s opus magnum and a masterful contribution to the field of eschatology. This lengthy work is being published by Alba
Fr. Mark Pilon is once again teaching Theology at the Graduate School this semester. Press and is due out this fall. Fr. Pilon is an active member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
Current and retired IBM employees are encouraged to look into IBM’s company’s generous matching grants program, which facilitates the donation of valuable computer equipment to Christendom each year.
printers, monitors, and projectors,” according to Director of Computer Services Doug Briggs. “These gifts enable us to implement technology solutions across campus that would otherwise be beyond our reach.”
“Over the years, gifts from IBM employees have enabled us to acquire high quality desktop, laptop, and server computers, as well as
Donations made prior to the end of December are subject to a 3-to-1 match for current IBM employees, and 1.5-to-1 for retirees.
Adjunct Professor of Theology Mary Stanford, MTS, recently delivered a talk on the feminine soul as part of the Dating and Relationships series for the Young Adult Ministry of the Diocese of Arlington, VA. She also taught an intensive Theology of the Body summer course designed for the deaconate candidates of the diocese of Tulsa, OK. Along with many professors from Catholic colleges and universities around the country, Christendom professors Thomas Stanford
and Patrick Keats of the Department of English Language and Literature attended separate week-long summer conferences hosted by Robert Royal’s Faith & Reason Institute. The conferences, which took place at the University of Notre Dame and Belmont Abbey College, afforded the invitees opportunities to study and discuss many of the great works and ideas of the Catholic liberal arts tradition and their place in the curricula of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States.
Adjunct Professor of Theology Mrs. Mary Stanford.
Dr. Thomas Stanford and Dr. Patrick Keats.
IBM Matching Grants Program Update
Stanfords and Keats Stay Active in Summer
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