Bridge Spring 2012

Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (Berkeley campus) Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2012 Bridging Theology and the Cultures of the World

Jesuit Theological

Vision

Also Inside: Enrollment Excitement Advancing JST’s Mission Here & Now: JST & SCU Contextualized Education

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Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (Berkeley campus) Bridging Theology and the Cultures of the World

Vol. 7, No. 1, Spring 2012

Contents FEATURES FTE Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Diaconate Ordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Feerick: Advancing JST’s Mission . . . . . 8 Jesuit Theological Vision . . . . . . . . . . 10 Here & Now: JST & SCU . . . . . . . . . . . 13 New Faces on Campus . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Dean’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Profile in Ministry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Faculty News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Alumni Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Bridge is the semi-annual magazine of the Jesuit School of Theology.

The Jesuit School is a theological school faithful to the intellectual tradition and the apostolic priority of the Society of Jesus: reverent and critical service of the faith that does justice. The Jesuit School achieves its mission through the academic, pastoral and personal formation of Jesuits and other candi­dates for ministry, ordained and lay, in the Roman Catholic Church. The Development Department produces the Bridge.

Editor: Catherine M. Kelly DESIGN AND LAYOUT: Molly McCoy BOARD OF DIRECTORS William J. Barkett Thomas E. Bertelsen Betsy Bliss Louis M. Castruccio Paul G. Crowley, S.J. Most Rev. John S. Cummins Rev. Virgilio P. Elizondo Michael E. Engh, S.J. Katherine R. Enright Maureen A. Fay, O.P. John D. Feerick Leo J. Hindery, Jr. Loretta Holstein

Mark Lewis, S.J. Most Rev. Robert W. McElroy Edison H. Miyawaki John Nicolai Robert W. Peters Stanley Raggio D. Paul Regan Anthony E. Sholander, S.J. Martin J. Skrip Thomas H. Smolich, S.J. Michael Tyrrell, S.J. Most Rev. Michael F. Weiler, S.J.

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Our theme this issue is theological vision and the role of theology in a Catholic university. We are honored to publish articles from the new Santa Clara Provost, Dr. Dennis Jacobs, and SCU Religion Professor, Rev. Paul Crowley, S.J., on the topic. We hear from the Admissions Department and board member John Feerick on how they recruit students and donors, respectively, to help realize this vision. The Admissions Department reports its good news in enrollment; and John Feerick shares his passion for JST. Living out the vision, alumnus Tim Wesmiller (M.Div. 2006) reflects on learning and teaching contextualized education; and students Kristy Callaway (M.Div. 2012) and John Michael Reyes (M.Div. 2013) explore how their Fund for Theological Education fellowships benefit their vocation discernment processes.

We introduce new faculty and staff members in our New Faces on Campus article. Before going on sabbatical, Rev. Kevin F. Burke, S.J. bids fond farewell as dean after six years of dedicated leadership and service to JST. I would like to thank Rev. Hadi Sasmita, S.J. (M.Div. 2007), Carlo Perez (S.T.L. 2013) at JST and Chuck Barry at SCU for the many beautiful photographs they contributed to this issue.

Alumni, as a follow-up to The Bridge’s fall 2011 article on Alumni Resources, please feel free to share additional resources for continued professional development and spiritual growth on the JST Facebook page.

Enjoy!

Catherine M. Kelly Editor editor@jstb.edu

Cover: St. Ignatius of Loyola statue by Lisa Reinerston on SCU campus. Photo by Charles Barry (SCU).

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DEAN’S MESSAGE I can’t believe this is my final Dean’s Message. Can it be that a six-year term

that began in 2006 will end this summer? And what a term, full of unexpected turns and twists, a time of many jobs rolled into one Jesuit assignment.

Six years ago I succeeded Fr. Jack Treloar, S.J. as the Dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and assumed a position on the Council of Deans in the Graduate Theological Union. The job I step down from is the Dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University where, among many other things, I have served on the SCU Council of Deans under the University Provost. In between, I was Acting President of JSTB in the year before our integration with Santa Clara but after Joe Daoust, S.J. took his new position in Rome. And for a year my title was Executive Dean.

I come to this reflection filled with gratitude and hope. What a gift to be a part of this school community. What amazing students have passed through here in these years! And what amazing things they are doing today. I think of Francis Minj, S.J. (S.T.D. 2009), my first doctoral student at JST, my teaching assistant in a course in Christology during my first year as dean, now himself the dean of the Jesuit theology faculty at our school in Ranchi, India. And Deogratias Mutayoba Rwezaura, S.J. (S.T.D. 2010) from Tanzania, a student in that same class who completed his doctorate in record time and is now teaching theology and working with Jesuit Refugee Services in Africa. I remember Jessica Mueller (M.Div. 2010) and Neela Kale (M.Div. 2008), brilliant, committed women of faith, also students in that class now serving as lay ecclesial ministers — a Catholic high school teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area and a parish pastoral minister near Portland, OR. I recall Joseph Carver, S.J. (M.Div. 2009, S.T.L. 2009), a pastor and religious superior, and Mark Luedtke, S.J. (M.Div. 2010), recently appointed the president of a Jesuit high school, and so on…. These are our students: wonderful human beings; gifts to our world, our church. What a joy to have been a small part of their journeys.

So many people have given me hope: colleagues in administration and on the faculty, wonderful board members and benefactors, Jesuit superiors and friends… I cannot possibly call all of them to mind or mention them here. But let me name three people who have touched my life profoundly, who have made me a better person and a better Jesuit, and whose presence in my life I consider an incalculable gift: Fr. Joe Daoust, S.J., the last president of JSTB, now in Rome; Don Dodson, the recently retired provost of Santa Clara University, now working to help found a Jesuit university in China; and Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, a beautiful, brilliant, loving professor and theologian and friend, now with God. I give thanks for them as a way of saying “thank you” for all the others who have blessed me and made this place holy ground.

I say farewell as dean, but not goodbye! One further joy is that, after a one-year sabbatical (some would say “well-deserved sabbatical”), I will be returning to JST to teach systematic and fundamental theology. I am a man deeply blessed! Thank you, each and every one, for these great years of transition and hope.

Kevin F. Burke, S.J. Dean

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Profiles

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From Student to Teacher: Learning and Teaching Contextualized Education Tim Wesmiller (M.Div. 2006) When I entered the Jesuit School of Theology (JST) in

2003 to receive a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, I knew little about the concept of culturally contextualized learning although I had a teaching background. I came to the program not ever having traveled internationally, and to be honest, I had no idea how I wanted to use my degree. Never could I have imagined I would become an immersion program coordinator that organized annually 13 domestic and international immersion trips, including one I would create to India.

Looking back, the path is clear how I became equipped to travel with 25 high school students to a country as daunting as India. JST taught me that a “Faith that Does Justice” can be done only while being with people, not just studying about them in a textbook. From field education in West Oakland to theological immersion trips to Mexico City, Guatemala and India, JST took me out my comfort zone to show me how I could put my faith into action.

My first-year M.Div. class studied about the Church in Latin America and then traveled to Mexico City to see how the people experience life through the lens of a rich Latin culture but often harsh economic conditions. I will always remember the experience of having hundreds of Mexican parishioners pray over me to bring their blessing to loved ones living in the U.S. as migrant workers.

Then I learned in an Old Testament Prophets class that the prophets are intermediaries between God and God’s People. The prophets were able to analyze culture and critique it based on God’s desire for justice and faithfulness. We traveled to Guatemala to practice being God’s cultural anthropologists. We looked at issues and reflected on how to make social structures just while still being culturally sensitive. I will never forget a coffee farmer telling me that the Parable of the Prodigal Son is still alive in the hearts of the villagers as their children

CBS News accompanied Tim and his leave their country students on their trip and interviewed for the modern livthem. These interviews won the AP ing of the North. award for Best Features Story and In addition, appear on YouTube at: I was fortunate to participate in ECJ India CBS Piece Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDjWdfupaT0 an Interreligious Dialogue course that ECJ India CBS Live Interview Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfQTb9Lfa88 traveled to India.

India broke down my ECJ India CBS Piece Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA08o7BUS5g preconceived notions of how people are ECJ India CBS Live Interview Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvO2Ker3P-4 supposed to live. I found being in India both challenging and fascinating as I saw how Indian Catholics have re-imagined Christ in the Indian context, incorporating Eastern philosophies and customs. I wrestled with whether India could simultaneously modernize through globalized capitalism and take care of the millions living in poverty.

I left India dedicated to wanting to learn more about how the country works and how I could become more connected to its people.

My JST degree made me aware that I wanted to become an educator who would provide students with the same amazing contextualized education. Fortunately, Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose hired me.

Its core mission is to educate students with the same pedagogy as JST. The administration encouraged me to take my knowledge of India and turn it into a junior-level religion course called Ethics, Culture, Justice: India. For one full year, my students explore issues such as globalization, interreligious dialogue, the environment, Gandhi’s legacy, and the role of women and Dalits. After building that foundation, students experience a once-in-a-lifetime 18-day immersion to witness these topics in action. As the students fall in love with and have their hearts broken

by India, I am forever changed witnessing their growth.

I thank JST and its professors for believing in contextualized education. Your efforts are helping produce a generation of ministers who are realizing Jesus’ call to be disciples to all nations.

Tim listens as the principal describes the strides in women’s education since opening Vidyaniketan Hosur School near Bangalore, India.

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Two Fund for Theological Education Fellows at JST The Jesuit School of Theology is proud to announce that two students have received fellowships from The Fund for Theological Education (FTE): for 2010–11, Kristy Calaway and for 2011–12, John Michael Reyes. The Fund recognizes young leaders who demonstrate exceptional gifts for ministry. Below Kristy writes about how the fellowship benefited her and John Michael shares his goals for the fellowship.

People regularly ask me how I — a thoughtful, progressive, young woman — can stay in a Church that often seems not to recognize the call, leadership potential, and contributions of women? As I set off on a pilgrimage to visit Ignatian sites in Spain, see Marian sites like Our Lady of Fatima, and walk more than 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain, I hoped to explore this question.

In the summer of 2010, I was awarded a generous fellowship from the Fund for Theological Education. Throughout the past year the other fellows and I challenged one another to develop projects that “fit” who we are and who God is calling us to become. My project focused on finding a sense of empowerment as a woman in my faith journey and my ministry.

When I began walking the Camino I quickly learned that, though you may begin and end alone, nobody walks the Camino alone. Pilgrims always look out for one another, offering advice on blisters and muscles, sharing sweets, and encouraging those in pain.

Stories of the pilgrims of the past thousand years inspire even on the rainiest of days. As I walked, I realized that the more I trusted the other pilgrims, the more I trusted myself, and the more I trusted God. I could finally believe that the same God who called St. Ignatius to serve the Church in new ways also calls me to serve others creatively — and to do so with unhesitating confidence.

As a Roman Catholic, Filipino American from San Francisco, CA, it is an honor to be able to articulate the blessings and challenges of being raised by immigrants in a multicultural world. It has opened my ears to the voices and experiences that too often go unheard. By my baptism, I am determined not to run away in fear from those different from myself. I am reminded of the privilege to bear witness to a merciful God. I am honored to be empowered to minister with and for the People of God! The People of God — through various persons and communities — sparked my holy curiosity for pastoral ministry. I realized my call to ministry through powerful liturgies that express our life in Christ for the life of the world. Being able to prepare and pray liturgies so that the ritual is a genuine expression of faith for the gathered community continues to give me life.

People have affirmed me as a lay ecclesial minister, and I desire to grow in my ministerial formation in response to the call they have affirmed. I am willing to take risks, to take leaps of faith. It is appropriate that I study theology because I want to gather the tools necessary to be an effective minister in an ever-changing and challenging world.

I want to witness the journey of others: witnessing their hearts come alive through prayer and reflection. I desire a path that cultivates my imagination, creativity and compassion for ministry in today’s world. I desire to be an instrument of Jesus’ invitation to ministry, allowing room for the Spirit to show where I can be of service, kindling faith and justice in our world.

To be a Christian, to be a minister of the Gospel, is to carry the responsibility of witnessing.

Witnessing is our mission, our very essence: “‘You are my witnesses,’ says the Lord.” (Isaiah 43:10) Through FTE’s generosity, and with God’s grace, I hope to mature as a witness by boldly proclaiming that Christ is alive, by being trustworthy and by taking to heart Jesus’ supreme example of faithfulness.

Photo by Charles Barry (SCU)

John Michael Reyes (M.Div. 2013)

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Kristy Calaway (M.Div. 2012)

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The Good News in Enrollment at JST Maureen Beckman, Assistant Dean and Sr. Grace Hogan, O.P., Associate Director, Enrollment Management and Marketing The Jesuit School of Theology (JST) started the fall 2011

information easily. A simple button on these pages has increased our inquiries by over 300% in one year! This increase in inquiries is such good news since it has led to an increase in applications and eventually an increase in students, as our 31% climb in numbers this past fall indicates. The work continues on the website with improvements to our housing pages, program pages, and general information.

Our advertising was dated and not reflective of who we are and what we wanted our image to be in the wider community. We did a total overhaul of our ads, highlighting the student-created slogan which appears in all of our ads and on our website: “A 2000-year-old faith, a 21st century approach�. We expanded our advertising efforts to include both national and international publications as well as many of our Jesuit feeder school newspapers.

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semester with good news: enrollments increased by 31% from the previous year, exceeding our projected goal. We made many changes in our recruitment efforts in order to meet this goal, including improving customer service, the website, advertising, recruiting on campuses, alumni support, and involving current students and faculty.

In the area of customer service, we accomplished our departmental goal to return phone calls and emails within a 24-hour period. We then follow up calls by sending printed materials to each inquirer. This responsiveness lets the prospective students know that they, and their calling to graduate studies in theology, are a priority for us in admissions.

Along with improving customer service, we knew that we had to improve the website because it is the first point of contact for most prospective students. We solicited current student input to evaluate it and make suggestions for the homepage and the admissions component. We were able to streamline the language, improve the graphics and photos, and make it more user-friendly. We also highlighted the four attributes that distinguish and showcase JST on our homepage: academic excellence, a dynamic spiritual community, the Jesuit mission — preparation for a faith that does justice, and our location in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We also realized how hard it was for prospective students to inquire for further information on the website without having to phone or email. We soon developed a key button on the homepage and on other critical pages that allows individuals to request

Maureen Beckman and Sr. Grace Hogan, O.P.

Jesuit universities are very important to our recruitment effort and we realized we needed to increase our visits, make them more strategic and central to our fall schedule.

We reached out to several schools, meeting with theology/ religious studies faculty, department chairs, campus ministry teams, social justice centers, and, of course, prospective students. This year we also implemented bringing current JST students with us to their alma maters. The student accompaniment yielded a very positive experience since the students chosen had deep connections to their former professors, campus organizations, and the current student body. We were able to connect with constituencies who otherwise would have been quite difficult to meet. With the help of our students, we were able to set up several meetings at each of the universities. Our students provided us with a wonderful way to connect with schools that we do not currently have strong relationships with and exhibited how much we value our students as part of the JST community.

A 2000-year-old faith, A 21st century approach Rounding out our fall recruitment schedule, we continued to participate in various conferences, California graduate fairs, and the Ignatian Family Teach-In in Washington, DC. We attended all of these events, including the Teach-In with its 1,200 participants, in an effort to reach out to those constituencies who would be interested in our programs and to introduce JST to those who might not be familiar with who we are and what we have to offer.

Not only have our students been an important part of our outreach efforts, so have our alumni. They have provided us with contacts to faculty and campus ministers

Bridge readers can help JST’s recruitment efforts Alumni, are you willing to talk with or meet prospective students in your area? Or provide contacts to admissions? If so, please let us know at admissions@jstb.edu. Also, please feel free to direct interested persons to our website, www.scu.edu/jst.

at the schools where they work, they have spoken with prospective students when asked, they have connected us to Jesuit Volunteers, hosted dinners and conversations with prospects, and have provided invaluable input to all of our recruiting efforts.

In addition, current faculty members give their time and expertise when meeting with visiting prospective students and are a wonderful resource to our recruiting efforts. They also serve on the admissions committee reviewing all applications for our degree and non-degree

programs. Faculty continue to provide contacts at the universities that we visit as part of our recruitment schedule and often take JST materials with them to their various speaking engagements throughout the US and beyond.

The numbers continue to trend upward after a long and busy fall and we are extremely pleased with the results of our efforts so far. We are looking forward to another productive year in admissions and the continuation of the good news.

2011 Diaconate Ordination

Rev. Mr. Paul A. Lickteig, S.J. (Wisconsin Province), Rev. Mr. James B. Hooks, S.J. (New Orleans Province), Rev. Mr. Pau Vidal Sas, S.J. (Tarragon Province, Spain), Most Rev. Salvatore Cordileone (Bishop of Oakland), Rev. Mr. Bipin Kumar Kujur, S.J. (Jamshedpur Province, India), Rev. Tony Sholander, S.J. (California Province; Rector of JST Jesuit Community), Rev. Mr. Richard P. Magner, S.J. (Oregon Province), Rev. Mr. Vincent Vinod Fernandes, S.J. (Jamshedpur Province, India), Rev. Mr. Ronald Pais, S.J. (Karnataka Province, India). Photo by Hadi Sasmita, S.J.

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Advancing the Mission of JST: Interview with Director John Feerick Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006), Editor

I was honored to interview John Feerick on February 10, 2012, regarding his involvement with the Jesuit School of Theology (JST). He is a JST board member, co-chair of the board’s advancement committee and member of the New York City host committee for the Theology in the City lecture series. John is, and has been for the past ten years, a full-time law professor at Fordham Law. For the 20 years prior, he was the dean of Fordham Law School. From time to time, he also serves as an arbitrator, mediator or court officer.

Why are you involved with JST as a board member? How long have you been on the board?

Father Joe Daoust, S.J. asked me to join the board 10 years ago. I was getting ready to leave as dean of Fordham Law in 2001–02. Father Daoust thought I would have a hard time declining the invitation since my daughter Rosemary was in California and a Master of Divinity student at JSTB. I understood the school to be a flagship school for the Society of Jesus. I was honored to be asked to be a trustee. (At that time, the school had a board of trustees; now it has a board of directors).

Are you Jesuit educated?

Yes, I am a graduate of Fordham College (1954–58) and Fordham Law. I benefited from so many Jesuits as my teachers and the spirit of the Society of Jesus was instilled in me at college. The law school as part of the university has a long and strong Jesuit tradition.

What attracted you to the Jesuit School of Theology’s mission?

JST plays a very significant role nationally, internationally and locally in fostering Catholic education and the advancement of the Catholic faith, inviting people to be

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part of an enterprise that perpetuates the Catholic faith.

I received 20 years of Catholic education. The Ursuline Sisters taught me in grammar school and Marist brothers and priests taught me in high school.

I wanted to be part of Catholic education and advancing the mission of the Catholic Church. It is very inspiring. I feel humbled to be a small part of this.

What is your impression of the school under Father Kevin Burke, S.J.’s leadership?

Father Burke has done an outstanding job carrying forward the wonderful leadership of Father Daoust for many years. Father Burke took over the leadership reins before JSTB’s integration with Santa Clara University (SCU). He accepted the challenge and brought his own passion to keep the school strong. He guided the transition to make the school a major part of SCU. He put himself into the transition 24/7. I was very sad to learn last summer that he planned to end his tenure as dean at the end of the academic year. He will have led the school for six critically important years. He certainly made his mark in implementing an effective transition for JST and positioning it for a bright future.

Describe your involvement with JST and Theology in the City in New York.

As part of my involvement, I have tried to introduce the school to the Fordham Law community of which I have been part for more than 50 years. I do this in many ways — for example, by contributing ideas for the Theology in the City lecture in New York and serving on the host committee to promote it; and keeping New York friends abreast of developments at JST. In fact, many years ago when I first met Father Daoust, with two graduates from Fordham Law School, we encouraged a greater presence in New York, which gave rise to New York’s Theology in the City lecture. I have attended all of them and have found them not only interesting but enhancing of my Catholic faith. They are wonderful in providing a greater understanding of issues from the standpoint of the Catholic Church and of the church itself in the modern world. Over the past almost 10 years, I also regularly set up meetings for Father Daoust with graduates and friends of Fordham Law School. The meetings continued to grow under Father Burke. This past fall’s Theology in the City lecture in New York attracted close to 80 people. I have been at all these lectures and they have been at a high turnout level. Among

JST plays a very significant role nationally, internationally and locally in fostering Catholic education and the advancement of the Catholic faith the things I have done in New York to promote the school’s tradition of Ignatian spirituality is seek introductions for the school with foundations. I also make it a practice after a board meeting to send an update news report to the school’s friends in the Fordham Law community.

I feel strongly about the school and the opportunity it offers not only priests and women religious but to lay men and women. Actually, it was my daughter Rosemary, a Georgetown graduate in the Theology area, who introduced me to the school. When she left Georgetown, she helped build a transitional homeless shelter for pregnant women and then taught religion for several years at Good Counsel High School in Maryland. She then surprised her family by saying she wanted to go to California and attend JSTB to acquire an M.Div. degree and begin a career in ministry as one of its graduates. She turned down a full scholarship to Yale Divinity School, right next door to where we live, to do so. We (her mother and father) had hoped she would stay around but she had her mind set on JSTB because of its engagement with the poor, as one comes to learn and see in the lives of its graduates throughout the US, and

elsewhere in the world. We now understand why our daughter would go 3,000 miles to JSTB and are happy that she did so and found an empowering community at JSTB. Father Daoust correctly predicted that I would not decline his invitation to join JSTB’s board.

JST ’s future as a Catholic center of Ignatian spirituality is more essential than ever in a world craving for more moral and ethical leadership As co-chair of the board’s fundraising committee, what are your hopes and goals for the school and how do you encourage others to invest in JST?

My hopes and goals for the school are the same as those of the school — steady enrollment and increased financial support to assure such an enrollment. I encourage others to invest in JST through my own example and love for the school and its mission and more specifically in hosting functions, arranging for meetings, effecting introductions, writing about the school, speaking about the school as often as I can, and being active in board meetings on behalf of the school’s interests. I travel regularly to those meetings, usually leaving on Thursday for California right after my teaching at Fordham, attending the JST meeting on Friday, visiting my daughter and her two lovely children (Roddy and Ian) on Saturday, and returning home on Sunday. In between regular board meetings, I make myself available for advancement committee meetings by teleconference and communicate regularly with Father Burke and the Development people on all kinds of subjects of importance to the school.

Any last thoughts?

I have no doubt that the Society of Jesus will choose another great leader for the school but, having said this, I will greatly miss Father Burke as its leader but I am thrilled that he will be joining the full-time teaching faculty after his deanship. The school, of course, is more than one person. It is a composite of teachers, students, staff, graduates, and friends. Its history has been a great one and its future as a Catholic center of Ignatian spirituality is more essential than ever in a world craving for more moral and ethical leadership. My wife and I will celebrate 50 years of marriage this year and we hope to continue to be engaged in the life of the school for many years to come.

We thank Rosemary and our dear friends, Fathers Daoust and Burke, for the memories we have of JST.

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The new Strategic Plan for Santa Clara University

(SCU) boldly sets out to “establish the University as a national and international leader in theological study and service to the wider Catholic community.” This kind of goal would have been unimaginable a mere five years ago, before the integration of JST into the university.

While we did then and do now have a first-rate faculty in the Religious Studies Department for which we are justly proud, including a successful master’s degree program in Pastoral Ministries, we did not have the extra heft of a an international “divinity school” to add to the mix and to create the synergies necessary to think in such terms.

Now we do. Few other Catholic universities can claim that kind of advantage. And what is that advantage? It is the opportunity not only to serve our students, but to serve the global church, by educating a new generation of lay people, Jesuits and others for the challenges that lie ahead in ministry, theological education and theological scholarship. We would accomplish this by pursuing theology from the standpoint of Jesuit traditions and commitments: theology in a Jesuit key.

In order to get to the heart of the integration of JST with SCU, you have to go back to the earliest joint meetings between SCU Religious Studies faculty and JST faculty. One thing became clear from the outset: we had to converge on mission, or the integration would only be paper-thin at an academic level. While the

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mission of the Religious Studies Department, and its master’s program in Pastoral Ministries was and remains distinctive, as does the mission of JST, they nevertheless overlap in certain fundamental ways. The commitments of the Society of Jesus, which both JST and the Department of Religious Studies share in common, imbue and drive that overlapping mission. The integration was also blest to be a process, which, although at times delicate in its steps, was fed by mutual respect, good will, and, in many cases, years of friendship. So we discussed shared mission with a minimum of usual academic suspicions and a maximum of good will and desire to grow something great at Santa Clara: a major center for theological life in the United States serving the mission of the Society of Jesus, which includes the mission of the church to serve the Gospel.

In all of this we are developing, I think, a “Jesuit theology” here on the West Coast that draws on the strengths of both ends of the San Francisco Bay and looks outward to the world. So what are the building blocks of this theology in a Jesuit key? Here we can return to those early discussions among the faculties, where we specified three fundamental commitments: a commitment to developing a theological horizon for the university, a commitment to contextual education, and a commitment to a “faith that does justice.”

Left to Right: Indonesian mother and child image; installation Mass of Rev. Michael Engh, S.J. as SCU president; JST New Directions sabbatical students at the Golden Gate Bridge; JST students on immersion in Nepal; SCU’s Mission Church.

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s Studies Dept., SCU Rev. Paul Crowley, S.J. Professor, Religiou

Developing a Theological Horizon When we speak of a “theological horizon” we do not mean that every work or investigation undertaken in the university must take theology into account. Nor do we mean that the indispensable fields in religious studies, such as history or sociology of religion, or expertise in other religious traditions and practices, be subordinated to a theological ideology. We are talking about something both different and deeper, something that goes to the heart of what makes a university a Jesuit university.

While the contemporary Jesuit university cannot and should not attempt to replicate the university of Ignatius’ time, Ignatius nevertheless put his finger on something crucial: that the ultimate reason a university exists is that the glory and mystery of God might be more fully comprehended. Of course, he was speaking from the perspective of his own time, but the principle still holds for Jesuit universities today — that all that we do is somehow revelatory of the divine. At least that is how Jesuits have always seen it. Thus, a “theological horizon” refers not to the work of a discipline, school, or department, but to the “glory of God” that is disclosed in all that we do. This can happen as readily through physics or math or dance or literature as through philosophy or systematic theology.

In order to accomplish that lofty goal in a university, we do in fact need theology and theological disciplines and the energy of a theological voice added to the mix of

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whatever else the university is doing. And this is where the integration becomes important for Santa Clara.

With the synergies created by the merger, we are seeing that happen, not only in joint projects with the Religious Studies Department, but also with other departments, centers and programs of the university. The recent emergence of an ethics cluster involving faculty from both campuses is particularly heartening. At the same time, the Religious Studies Department has great depth in some fields, such as Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam, that can only serve to broaden and deepen the way theology as a discipline develops at Santa Clara in the future. Theology is rightly, then, a university discipline, and cannot survive for long without the lifeblood of a university. This was one of the reasons Alma College moved to Berkeley in the first place — to live within the ambit of a great university. It is one of the reasons that JSTB joined forces with SCU — to carry this commitment to the next step in the context of a Jesuit university.

Academic and intellectual cross-fertilization is vital to the development of a theology in a Jesuit key. It is already happening at Santa Clara.

Contextual Education A hallmark of Jesuit thinking, from its earliest inception, has been taking contexts seriously. The actual social and historical circumstances of both the church and of

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society and culture not only form the backdrop for its life, but also inform its thinking and action. Theology in particular cannot operate in a speculative vacuum, as if theologians themselves were not living in the real world. This was splendidly demonstrated in the great experiments of the sixteenth century where pioneers such as Matteo Ricci in China and Roberto de Nobili in India entered seriously into the cultures they inhabited and devised not only new rituals but entertained new thinking about the theological tradition received from European culture. While those efforts met ill fate at the hands of Rome, their pioneering spirit is vibrant in the Society today in ways unimaginable in the sixteenth century. The most recent General Congregation of the Society places all Jesuit works, not least universities, at the center of this commitment to push at the edges of the cultural frontiers. One implication is that theology must be contextual, and must engage virtually all other academic disciplines in accomplishing its task.

At Santa Clara, the contexts within which we work are almost overwhelmingly rich: the incredible cultural diversity of the Bay Area, the opportunities and challenges posed by Silicon Valley, and the Pacific Rim location of our university, and especially of JST itself, which literally overlooks the Golden Gate. We give special attention to the local churches through programs like “Theology after Hours” at JST, the Instituto Hispano focusing on the development of Latino lay leadership, and the Graduate Program of Pastoral Ministries (GPPM) on the main campus. One item on the table is the possible integration of the GPPM with JST. GPPM would remain on the SCU campus and function largely as it does today, with special attention to the local church of San José, but also contribute to the strengthening of JST as a whole, especially in the South Bay. Looking beyond the Bay Area, the addition of JST means that the global context of the university’s reach has been greatly enhanced, not only through the multitude of international students from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, but also through the commitment of JST

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to deepening ties with theology centers in other parts of the world. This global context, reflected in the conference on local ecclesiologies held shortly after the integration, is in keeping with the Society’s desire to develop working networks among its various institutions around the globe.

So, while JST and SCU strive for excellence in theological education in service to the US and global church, the deeper Ignatian stress is on service to the development of a contextualized theology not only in Berkeley but in other parts of the Jesuit world as well. That is one reason why we have developed ever closer ties with theology centers in places like Manila and Nairobi.

What all of this points to for our faculties is the development of a “Jesuit theology” that grows out of local and global contexts and that makes use of many disciplines as it engages the tradition. What feeds into this contextualized theology and makes it distinctively Jesuit is the intellectual tradition of Jesuit theology, which is inherently affirmative of the world. Taking a page from H. Richard Niebhur, we are adopting a “Christ within culture” model, as opposed to “Christ against culture.” And this intellectual tradition is inspired by an Ignatian spirituality that delves deeply into motivations and movements of God’s spirit in ourselves and in the world, and generates a deep desire to put our gifts to the service of God’s world. This means that we pursue theology with a vision and a purpose.

Faith that does Justice This vision and purpose take on a definite form in the Society’s commitment, first expressed in General Congregation 32, to the promotion of faith, and the pursuit of social justice, which is an absolute requirement of faith itself. This formulation was not intended as an island of liberal convenience, nor a least common denominator holding place for those uncomfortable with theology. It is rather the fruit of a commitment that can be traced to the Spiritual Exercises and the Society’s Constitutions themselves. In the course of the conversations leading up to the formalization of the integration, it

Here and Now

Dr. Dennis C. Jacobs, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Professor of Chemistry, SCU serve as Provost of Santa Clara University (SCU), I was drawn to the position for many reasons. Chief among them was the aspirational vision of the institution as a Jesuit Catholic university that sees its unique location in Silicon Valley as both a distinctive asset and an enormous responsibility.

Of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the United States, only SCU combines a deep commitment to holistic education and formation within the Jesuit tradition, comprehensive programs advancing social justice and sustainability, and extensive linkages within the highly diverse and entrepreneurial microcosm of Silicon Valley that span around the world. At no other time in history has an institution been poised like Santa Clara is today to serve the region, the church, and the world.

It is in this light that I commend the strategic integration of the Jesuit School of Theology ( JST) and SCU. As one of just two Jesuit theologates and seven ecclesiastical faculties in the United States, JST plays a critical role in educating and forming women and men, ordained and lay, who share a dynamic vision for ministry and study within the Roman Catholic Church.

JST students come from all parts of the world to deepen their theological knowledge, reflect on their experiences in ministry, explore Ignatian spirituality, and gain new

was abundantly clear and easily assumed that both SCU and JST shared deeply in this commitment because they shared in this spiritual heritage. We were and remain congenial partners in the promotion of this dimension of our mission.

For example, through the Arrupe and Kolvenbach programs of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara has dedicated academic and pedagogical resources for an education that entails “praxis” or hands-on learning from the poor and marginalized, and deep immersions in other worlds of experience. Indeed, the new Core curriculum for undergraduates mandates that this become a dimension of education at Santa Clara.

JST incorporates praxis sites, domestic pilgrimages and international immersions into the heart of its Master of Divinity program, sending all first-year M.Div. students for immersions and offering upper-level students international immersions in Nepal, Indonesia and India. JST gives students intercultural competencies for ministry. JST also has long-standing commitments to the poorer parishes and communities of the Diocese

theological perspectives through the lens of socio-cultural analysis.

They receive outstanding theological training that inculcates certain sensibilities and sensitivities enabling them to work effectively in a wide variety of vocations and ministries.

The exceptional faculty at JST, in conversation with their esteemed colleagues at SCU, advance theological scholarship and discourse within the Catholic tradition as well as across other Christian traditions and other religions of the world. As one of nine member institutions of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, JST engages in authentic ecumenical and interfaith dialogue that is leaven to the multicultural American Catholic Church as well as the global church.

Through JST’s degree programs, scholarly contributions, and outreach to the poor and marginalized, the school continues to shape the church and society, thereby contributing invaluably to the overall mission of Santa Clara. As Provost, I look forward to enhancing the integration of JST and SCU, seeking ways to synergistically strengthen their respective programs marked by “reverent and critical service of the faith that does justice.”

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When presented with the exciting opportunity to

of Oakland within which JST stands. The fundamental academic reason for these praxis and immersion experiences is that an intellectual commitment to a contextualized theology cannot take root unless we have some sense of the worlds that address us. A “Jesuit theology” without this dimension cannot happen.

Where does all of this take us? We are at the doorstep of a new chapter in the ongoing relationship between our newest school, JST, and the rest of the university. We are embarking upon the development of theology in a Jesuit key, which I believe will constitute the distinctive contribution of Santa Clara, especially through JST, to the theological world, helping the university to fulfill its goal of becoming a national and international leader in the study of theology and of service to the church. We are thus offering the church something unique, and something that can only happen here in quite this way. Assuming adequate resources, and the influx of people — Jesuits, other religious, and lay — with the imagination and commitment to build this future, we have every reason to be hopeful.

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New Faces on Campus The Bridge is delighted to welcome and introduce our readers to JST’s new faculty and staff members. They describe in their own words their background, their role at the school, their attraction to JST, and what they are looking forward to here.

Rev. Lucas Chan, S.J. Lecturer in Biblical Ethics

Franca Mazzotti Program Assistant for the New Directions Sabbatical Program, Instituto Hispano and Intercultural Initiatives Program

I am from Lima, Peru where I worked for the German International Technical Cooperation Agency on projects for social and environmental development. Also, I was active at local, national and international levels of the

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I am a Jesuit priest from Hong Kong and a Christian ethicist by training.

I am a visiting Jesuit scholar and adjunct lecturer at JST for spring 2012. My course, “Doing Biblical Ethics,” explores the intersection between the Bible and morality. I am working on book-length manuscripts on bridging Scripture and Christian theological ethics and Confucian ethics. Two of the pioneer Catholic theologians in bridging Scripture and Christian ethics came from JST: ethicist William Spohn and biblical scholar John Donahue, S.J. I am fascinated by their initiative. I feel privileged to work where they taught together for many years. I hope to continue and further develop what they have started by means of teaching, discussion, and writing.

Moreover, JST has the exceptional reputation of bridging the West and the East in terms of diverse student/faculty ethnic backgrounds, cultural formation programs, and close connections with certain Asian academic institutions (like Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China). Both the location and the academic environment of the school provide such a needed space and opportunity for the West and the East to meet each other. There is always something new I can learn from this unique hub of the Pacific Rim. Being a Hong Kong Chinese and a member of the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus, I further look forward to supporting this unique and crucial role of JST not just by my teaching but also my presence and frank conversation with the school community as well.

Girl Scouts for many years, and have participated in international events of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in Mexico, Chile, Canada, India, Kenya and Peru as both an exhibitor and speaker. What attracted me to JST was the Jesuit community. I have been involved academically with the Jesuits as I graduated from the Jesuit-founded Universidad del Pacifico in 2007 in Lima, and recently began my master’s program at U.S.F. in non-profit administration. I really like the people at JST and the diversity you find is just amazing.

I look forward to learning more about non-profit management through my work, and, of course, keep on meeting great people!

Jay Ramirez Sr. Administrative Assistant

Prior to JST, I worked at Stanford University as a Research Accountant for the Sponsored Research Department.

My main responsibilities were reconciling Post-Awards as well as Accounts Receivable & Payables. Previously, I worked for Pepperdine University, Graziodio School of Business and Management, as a Budget Coordinator.

What attracted me to JST is its close relationship with the other GTU schools and its affiliation with Santa Clara University. As a Catholic, working for a Jesuit school is important to me. I like the small community at JST, which brings colleagues and students closer together.

Dr. Thomas Cattoi, Assistant

Professor of Christology and Cultures, Dwan Family Endowed Chair in Ecumenical and Interfaith Dialogue, succeeds George Greiner, S.J. as the new Chair of the Theology and History Department. Professor Cattoi gave a paper on the Christology of Ephrem the Syrian at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, where he also gave the response to a panel on the role of the arts in the context of interreligious dialogue. The British journal Studia Patristica accepted for publication his paper on the theology of Leontius of Byzantium, and he has published book reviews in Reviews in Religion and Theology, Commonweal, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

In January, he led a theological immersion to Nepal, where he also gave a lecture at the Center of Buddhist Studies at the University of Kathmandu on the notion of holiness in Catholicism and Vajrayana Buddhism. He became a contributing

writer to the Italian magazine Il Mondo di Annibale with a number of short articles in Italian on Christianity in India and China, as well as a piece on Ayn Rand and the American Tea Party. He is continuing work on the collection of articles from the 2009 ecclesiology conference; his volume on Theodore for Ancient Christian Writers is finally nearing completion and should see the light in 2012.

Rev. John Endres, S.J., Professor of Sacred Scripture (Old Testament) and Director of Studies for Religious, was on sabbatical leave during the year 2011. His writing projects focused on the Book of Jubilees, on which he is preparing a commentary.

In spring he worked in the library of the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, where he was able to visit with students who are JST grads: Matt Monnig, S.J. (M.Div. 2007), Joe Riordan, S.J. (M.Div. 2008), Monica Cordona, V.D.M.F. (M.Div. 2006) and Alberto de Mingo Kaminouchi, C.S.s.R. (S.T.D. in New Testament 2000). In the fall semester he worked in the Woodstock Theological Library at Georgetown University, where he enjoyed the company of many more JST grads! Two publications on Jubilees came out during this time: (1) “Jubilees, Book of ” in Biblical Studies, in Oxford Bibliographies (online). (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). www. oxfordbibliographies.com; (2) An article, “Revisiting the Rebekah of the Book of Jubilees” in A Teacher for All Generations, a Festschrift for James C. VanderKam, vol. 2: 765–782.

During the summer he traveled with Fr. Tony Sholander, S.J., rector of the Jesuit Community at JST to ordinations in Africa. First stop was Nigeria, for the priesthood ordination of Chikere Agbo, S.J. (Th.M. 2011) in Lagos. And there they also met

up with Osaretin Jonah,S.J., Ehi Omoragbon, S.J. (S.T.L. 2008) (superior of Jesuit school in Abuja), Niku Ekom, S.J. (studying biblical languages in Rome), and Jude Odiaka, S.J. (N.D. 2011) who has become the Provincial of NorthWest Africa Province. Next stop was Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, for the ordination of Billy Birhashwirwa, S.J., who has returned to Berkeley to continue his S.T.L. in biblical studies here. In addition they met many others: Jean Nyembo, S.J. (S.T.L. 2008): delegate of the provincial for social apostolate and chairs the socio-political sector of CEPAS; Ghislain Tshikendwa Matadi, S.J. (S.T.L. 2010), author of several books deriving from his S.T.L. thesis at JST, now pursuing a doctorate in Anthropology in Rome; Bernard Muhigirwa, S.J. (S.T.L. 1996): the Rector of the Philosophate Saint Peter Canisius; Simon Nsielanga, S.J. (S.T.L. 2009): works at social center in the West Africa Province; Richard Tambwe, S.J. (Th.M. 2010): in charge of the constructions in the province; Daniel Syauswa, S.J. (S.T.L. 2007) now in Tertianship in Ghana; Jean-Pierre Luzolo Ndol, S.J. (S.T.L. 2009): Director of “Parlons Sida” (a center that helps people with HIV/AIDS); Jose Minaku, S.J. (S.T.L. 2003): the Rector of Alfajiri High School; Michel Rwasha, S.J.: assistant pastor at the Sacred Heart parish (Kinshasa). Finally, they went to Nairobi for a visit to Hekima College, the Jesuit School of Theology (English speaking) in Africa. There they met Acquiline Tarimo, S.J. (S.T.D. 1998) (principal at Hekima), Gabriel Mmassi, S.J. (S.T.D. 2003) (rector at Hekima), Emmanuel Foro, S.J. (S.T.D. 2010) (beginning his teaching at Hekima), and Joseph Afulo, S.J. (S.T.L. 2001) (director of formation for East Africa Province), as well as

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Dr. Jerome P. Baggett, Professor of Religion and Society, delivered a lecture titled, “Learning to Listen: Voices of Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church” at the More than a Monologue Conference at Fordham University last September.

In October he participated in a panel presentation on “Making a Living and Making a Life” at the annual conference of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion held in Milwaukee. In January he made a presentation titled “Generational Trends among American Catholics” to a working group of Bay Area priests.

At UC-Berkeley he, along with several other university colleagues, served on a working group on religious diversity and had recently joined the steering committee for the university’s Religion, Politics and Globalization Program.

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Emmanuel Orobator, S.J. (S.T.L. 1998) Provincial of East Africa Province; and a Jesuit from Portugal, working with Jesuit Refugee Services: Luis Amaral, S.J. (S.T.L. 2006). Unfortunately they were not able to meet Deogratias Rwezaura, S.J. (S.T.D. 2010) now the regional director for Jesuit Refugee Services, who was working elsewhere at the time.

Rev. Eduardo C. Fernandez, S.J., Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ministry, is currently on sabbatical for the spring semester. He is collecting materials for upcoming writing projects as well as serving as procurator or representative of his province to the Procurators’ Congregation to be held this summer in Nairobi, Kenya. He recently published a chapter “Jesuits in the U.S. Southwest during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Agents and Chroniclers of Cross-Cultural Ministry and History” in Cross-Cultural History and the Domestication of Otherness, edited by Michal Jan Rozbicki and George O. Ndege (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Besides his continuing work for Now You Know Media, he recently did two other media presentations, a webinar for Loyola Institute of Ministry Extension Program (LIMEX) on his book, Mexican American Catholics, and an online presentation for the USCCB’s Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis.

In early January he conducted a workshop on faith and culture with the second-year men of the joint Missouri/New Orleans province novitiate at Grand Coteau, LA. Dr. Lisa Fullam, Associate

Professor of Moral Theology, and

Rev. Bill O’Neill, S.J. have been

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Clara University. This is another indicator of collaboration between JST and SCU faculties. Here is part of the invitation that they received: “This appointment is a recognition of your interest and engagement in how ethical issues arise in all areas of academic inquiry, as well as in private and public life. It is also a recognition of the contributions you have already made to the Center and its programs….Above all, we hope this appointment will encourage you to continue to pursue questions regarding the role of ethics in your own professional field.”

Sr. Maeve Louise Heaney, V.D.M.F., Banaan Fellow in Systematic Theology 2011–2012, gave a public lecture to the Pacific Coast Theological Society in their fall meeting on Theological Aesthetics, called “Moving Grace: Beauty’s Trace in Music”, and one on “Faith, Theology and Music — The Quest for Harmony.” She performed two of her own compositions, Dancing in our Minds and Lead Kindly Light, at a concert in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City on October 15, at the request of Archbishop Rino Fisichella for Benedict XVI’s Address to the 1st International Conference of the New Council for Evangelization: Nuovi Evangelizzatori per una Nuova Evangelizzazione. She has been one of the faculty advisors this year of the student directed and led performance of Charisma of the theatre and dance department. She has reviewed a recent book by Steven R. Guthrie called Creator Spirit. The Holy Spirit and the Art of Becoming Human (Michigan, 2011), for the international journal Theology, and contributed a chapter called “Musical Space: Living In-between the Christian and the Artistic Callings” to Rock Music and Theology which Liturgical Press will publish in 2012.

Rev. Paul Janowiak, S.J., Associate Professor of Liturgical Theology, during January intersession, traveled to Bratislava, Slovakia, to convene the organizing committee for the International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and the Liturgy, which will gather Jesuits from all over the world this summer to discuss “Ministries of the Word: Jesuits and Liturgical Preaching.” He also traveled to Quebec for the North American Academy of Liturgy meeting.

Dr. Gary Macy, John Nobili, S.J.

Professor of Theology, co-authored Women Deacons: Past, Present and Future with William Ditewig and Phyllis Zagano for Paulist Press.

He also co-edited Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages with Ian Levy and Kristen Van Ausdall for Brill Publications. He contributed the introduction and the chapter, “Theology of the Eucharist in the High Middle Ages,” for that volume. He also contributed the chapter, “Il modo di considerare le donne nei Commentari biblici (sec.

XII–XIII)", in Donne e Bibbia nel Medioevo edited by Kari Børresen and Adriana Valerio. The book will be published in four languages: Italian, German, Spanish and English. The Italian volume has been published, the others will follow shortly. His plenary address for the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the

Dr. Mia M. Mochizuki, Thomas

E. Bertelsen, Jr. Chair, Associate Professor of Art History and Religion, enjoyed her return to teaching after sabbatical. This fall she co-directed the conference “Sensational Religion: Sense and Contention in Material Practice” at Yale University, where Prof. Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J., gave a paper on the Virgin of Guadalupe that was received with great enthusiasm. She chaired a session at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in honor of the much missed Prof.

Alejandro García-Rivera. In December, she offered the 2012 Jane Daggett Dillenberger Lecture in Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, “Fire, Cross, Globe: Visual Violence in an Age of Encounter,” on three recently restored paintings of the Jesuit Martyrs in Japan from the Gesù Church in Rome. She gave the plenary lecture, “The Diaspora of the Religious Print,” on Alessandro Valignano, S.J.’s decision to ship a printing press to Japan for the opening of the “Crosscurrents in Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500–1800” Conference at Utrecht University in January. In Rome, she completed additional research for her book.

She accepted an invitation to serve

on the Religion and the Arts Award Jury of the American Academy of Religion.

Rev. George Murphy, S.J., Director of Spiritual Formation, spoke at a faculty retreat for Bellarmine College Prep at Los Altos Retreat House in November. In December, he gave a workshop on spiritual direction for campus ministry staff at University of San Francisco. In January, Rev. Rob McChesney, S.J., Sr. Maeve Heaney, V.D.M.F., Sr. Jane Ferdon O.P. and George directed a retreat for JST New Directions sabbatical students at Ben Lomond, CA. Rev. Bill O’Neill, S.J.. Associate Professor of Social Ethics, offered a paper on restorative justice for the Social Ethics Network of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA in October. His article on natural rights has recently been published in The Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. Jacqueline Lapsley, Rebekah Miles, and Allen Verhey, (Baker Academic and Braxos Press, 2011).

He is participating in the Ignatian Faculty Forum at Santa Clara University and continues his ministry as Catholic Chaplain at the Federal Women’s Prison in Dublin, CA. Rev. Hal Sanks, S.J., Professor

Emeritus of Systematic Theology, is serving as the Director of the S.T.D. program while Fr. Fernandez is on sabbatical. America Magazine published his article, “The Changing Face of Theology: Tradition in Process,” October 24, 2011.

Sr. Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M.,

Professor Emerita of New Testament and Spirituality, will receive the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities 2013 Monika K. Hellwig Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic intellectual life. Sandra will receive this award

at the Association’s banquet in Washington, D.C. in February 2013.

September 24: delivered a public lecture entitled, “That was Then...

This is Now: The Past, Present, and Future of Women Religious in the United States” at Saint Mary College, Notre Dame, IN in connection with the South Bend opening of the “Women & Spirit” museum exhibit of LCWR on Women Religious in the U.S. The article was published with the same title by the Center for Spirituality, Saint Mary’s College, 2011. (Published version is available from the Center.)

November 10-12: attended the symposium of the Luce Fellowship in Pittsburgh and presented my project for the year “Risen Jesus, Cosmic Christ”. November 18–22: participated in the annual convention of the American Academy of Religion, Society for Biblical Literature, and Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality in San Francisco, CA.

FACULTY NEWS

United States, “Not by Bread (or Wine) Alone: Popular Practices in the Middle Ages and Colonial Mexico”, was published in the online Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology.

Dr. Macy gave a paper, “Women Deacons in the Past,” at Loyola University Chicago on October 27 and a paper, “Ordination Rites for Women Deacons in the West,” at the North American Academy of Liturgy on January 6 in Montreal.

He also spoke on the Eucharist at the Faith Formation Conference in San Jose on November 11.

Rev. Anh Tran, S.J., has accepted our offer and has been missioned by his provincial to join our faculty in fall 2012 as Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology.

He recently completed his dissertation at Georgetown University. He is currently completing his Tertianship in the Philippines.

Dr. Catherine P. Zeph, Director

of Ministerial Formation, received a $17,000 grant from the SCU Technology Steering Committee, for her proposal, “Pilot Project: Integrating Technology into Ministerial Formation.” This funding provided an iPad2 for each of the first-year Master of Divinity students.

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Please send your news (e.g., new ministry, publication, promotion, celebration of marriage or significant anniversary of ordination, vows or entering religious life, birth of child, retirement, travels, etc.) for publication in the Bridge to editor@jstb.edu. Thank you!

1970s Rev. Dean Brackley, S.J. (M.Div.

Sr. Josephine KashemeireBeebwa, D.M.J. (I.S.W. 1979)

I now live in Rome as a member of the General Council for our Congregation. Please God I will be here till end of 2015. May God bless you all. I have been on the Council since 2005. For the last 5 years I was one of the 3 Non-resident

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a God who saves given the extreme violence against female humanity identified as feminicide? This book argues that while Christian salvation must be interpreted as both personal and social, in the here and now of feminicide, we learn that community is the condition for the possibility of salvation.

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1976), died October 16, 2011, surrounded by members of his community and several of his closest friends at the Jesuit infirmary in Santa Tecla, El Salvador, following a six-month struggle with pancreatic cancer.

Dean was one of the Jesuits assigned to El Salvador following the assassination of the six Jesuits and their two co-workers at the University of Central America in November 1989. His contribution to the mission of the UCA and the Central American Province of the Society of Jesus was exemplary.

Indeed, he became a key link in the chain of witnesses keeping alive the memory of the Central American martyrs in El Salvador and in the universal church. He was a great human being and a great Christian. It is an honor to recognize him as an alumnus of the Jesuit School of Theology.

— Rev. Kevin Burke, S.J., Dean of JST

Councillors. We came to Rome or any other part of Europe (once to California!) for meetings; and we went back to our respective countries of residence. Last year in August we had our General Chapter and I was one of those re-elected. However, this time the Chapter voted that the number of Councillors be reduced and all must live together with the S.G. That is how I landed here. I have been thrilled to meet up with Br. Barry Burns, F.M.S. (I.S.W. 1979).

We have had a couple of hours together over a meal, catching up on our time and friends at Berkeley.

Wishing you all God’s blessings.

1990s Franco Mormando, (S.T.L. 1994) Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Boston College, gave a lecture at San Francisco’s Istituto Italiano di Cultura on the Roman Baroque artist, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his new biography of Bernini in February. His lecture is in conjunction with the Legion of Honor Museum of Fine Art’s display of Bernini’s wonderful statue of “Medusa,” on loan from the Capitoline Museum of Rome (This is the first time the statue has ever left Italy, so it is a real coup for San Francisco).

Catherine M. Kelly (M.Div. 2006),

husband Andrew and son Michael welcomed Rafael James born October 3, 2011.

Sr. SoHee Shin, R.S.C.J. (M.T.S. 2007) After I returned to Seoul Damian Barry Smyth (S.S. 1994) from the Philippines, I was invited published “Dr. Newman: Non to give retreats and workshops on Angelus sed Anglus.” Doctrine and spiritual direction or discernment Life 61, no. 5 (May–June, 2011): 18–33. for other orders. From time to time, I noticed that their needs are shaping 2000s my life, which is consonant with Dr. Nancy Pineda-Madrid (GTU my own vision/desire. I decided Ph.D. 2005), Assistant Professor to do a doctoral program in Religious of Theology and U.S. Latino/a Studies (Area: Christian Spirituality) Ministry at Boston College, has at Sogang University ( Jesuit recently published Suffering and University in Seoul) starting in Salvation in Ciudad Juárez (Fortress, March 2012. I continue to give 2011) which address the question: retreats and workshops during how are we to understand faith in school breaks.

Sr. Margaret Aringo, F.S.J.

(S.T.D. 2008) is the chairperson of an organization of African women religious that spans eight eastern and central African nations, Association of Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA). The organization launched a five-year strategic plan, focusing on fostering leadership skills, communication techniques and a continued centering on human rights and social justice issues. Introducing the plan, she gave a speech asking, “Where would the church be today in the 21st century without sisters?”

In the foreword to the plan, she wrote it is ACWECA’s “collective responsibility to ensure that the love of Christ is fulfilled through the services” offered in the new plan. www.Ncronline.org/news/ women-religious/african-sisterslaunch-eight-nation-strategic-plan Mike Sweitzer-Beckman (M.Div. 2008) Back in 2002, I began collecting letters from people who were serving prison sentences for committing acts of civil disobedience at the School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).

I wrote to prisoners and asked them to share their stories of what it was like to be in prison, and why they took actions that put them in federal prison. My goal was to show the commitment by these peace activists toward a non-violent alternative. I also received some letters from people who had committed acts of civil disobedience at other anti-nuclear demonstrations, including nuclear test sites. I am donating these letters to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Rev. Olvin Veigas, S.J. (S.T.L. 2008) is now Director of the St. Thomas Institute of Philosophy, Theology and History in Moscow, Russia. He started the school year with 60 new students.

Rev. Jean-Pierre Luzolo Ndol, S.J.

(S.T.L. 2009) is the Director of Parlons SIDA/Kisangani (PSK) in Democratic Republic of Congo and the Sunday Vicar to Christ the King parish in Mongobo. PSK is a work of mercy and hope that brings assistance to the sick, especially those infected and affected by the AIDS epidemic. May 2012 will mark PSK’s tenth year of service and assistance in the battle against HIV/AIDS. For more information, please visit the website: www. parlons-sida.org.

Rev. Emmanuel Foro, S.J. (S.T.D. 2010) is teaching theology at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya.

Rev. Mark Luedtke, S.J. (M.Div. 2010) Loyola High School in Detroit and the board of trustees have announced the election of their fifth president, Fr. Mark Luedtke, S.J. effective July 1, 2012. For the past three semesters, he has been interning at Jesuit high schools in Sacramento, San Francisco, and New York City. In January, he moved to Detroit and began immersing himself in the Loyola community. As a member of Loyola’s Board of Trustees, Fr. Luedtke is very familiar with the school and is fully committed to its unique mission.

Rev. Fulgence Ratsimbazafy, S.J.

Gina Carnazzo (M.T.S. 2010) is a

volunteer English teacher at a mission school in Lome, Togo. I have always wanted to come to Africa.

I am drawn to the people and the land (and the animals — though there aren’t any safari animals in Togo). But it always seemed like an impossible dream to travel here.

Then, when I met so many people from African countries at JST, it began to feel more possible. I chose the Canossian Daughters of Charity because I liked what I read about their organization (VOICA), and I wanted to be involved with a Catholic organization. The core of my coming here is this: I have been showered with love and gifts all my life. I feel filled with love — overflowing, sometimes — and I just want to share that love. I did not come to Africa to convert anyone — just to share Christ’s love with the people here. I am not bringing Christ’s love, though, because his love is already here (something I learned at JST).

(S.T.D. 2011) Greetings from Madagascar. I will be in charge of the School of Social Communication and Journalism (a four-year program after high school that delivers a Master’s degree and has about 300 students) until the director returns from tertianship. Then I will return to my field of theology. From January 2012 after the Provincial Congregation, I will be the delegate for formation of the province. I wish you all the best and blessings.

Rev. Seong-uk Choi (S.T.D. 2011) I am teaching a Special Ethics course including sexual ethics and professional ethics at the Catholic University of Pusan Theological College. I am so happy to share my experiences at JST with Korean seminarians.

BRIDGE spring 2012

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