A Dream Realized

Building for our future by Stephanie Sinnott MARKETING &COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATE

CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION Fall 2003 Vol. XVI No. 3

The preliminary sketch of a new building for Catholic Theological Union. Since 1968, Catholic Theological Union looked at the expanding physical needs of A Dream Realized has been sheltered in the 10-story gray the school in relation to its mission and the Rabbi David Sandmel installed as Crown stone structure that stands at the corner of increasing size and diversity of the student 54th Street and Cornell Avenue in Hyde body. As the Strategic Plan states,: Ryan Professor of Jewish Studies Park. Within these walls, students, faculty, “Providing adequate facilities is central and staff alike work, study, pray, eat, and to support the learning environment and by Pattie Wigand Sporrong build the community for which CTU is so mission of CTU. A detailed planning MARKETING &COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR well known. In 35 years, the physical heart process conducted with professional Despite the intense pennant battle being of the school has been 5401 S. Cornell Ave. resources has convinced us that we have waged by the Chicago Cubs 90 blocks to Over the past three decades, CTU’s space outgrown the space and style of its current the north, the enthusiastic crowd gathered needs have largely been accommodated facilities.” in the Courtyards focused on the within the former Hotel Aragon, built in The Plan further states that, to continue celebration at hand. The fruition of the 1924. Walls have been knocked down to growth and keep meeting the needs of its long held dream of the late Rabbi Hayim combine small offices into larger class- students, CTU requires a facility that Perelmuter, a dream also cherished by rooms. An outdoor courtyard was enclosed provides “needed classrooms, up-to-date his colleagues at CTU, the event was the inauguration of the Crown Ryan Chair in to create classroom and assembly space. library facilities, meeting, lounge, and Jewish Studies and installation of its first Desks have been pushed into corners to assembly/worship space, adequate housing holder, Rabbi David Sandmel. make room for new employees. Rooms for our resident students and special Backdropped by “Rainbow Wings,” have been re-divided and reconfigured. programs, office space for staff, faculty, the art created in memory of Rabbi Storage space is at a premium. Conference and the allied centers, and educational Perelmuter, the mid-October celebration rooms are used for not only for meetings, technology support.” also paid tribute to the two Chicago fami- but also for classes, interviews, birthday and The process for deciding how to best lies who generously endowed the chair— going-away parties, luncheons, receptions, meet these criteria has been thorough. Renée and Lester Crown and Shirley and Photo: Dean La Prairie Patrick Ryan. President Donald Senior, Rabbi David Sandmel accepts the Crown Ryan Chair. dinners, comprehensive exams, extra work- Several buildings in the Hyde Park neigh- thanking the families said, “This generous space, and even city elections. Finding a borhood were evaluated for their suitability, gift from the Crowns and the Ryans Institute for Ministry of Faith Enrichment. place for a last minute meeting or make-up as were plans to adapt CTU’s existing prop- enables our school to educate religious A lecturer and author who belongs to the class is an ongoing challenge. erties. Yet in the end, the committee realized leaders of the future who will shape Association of Women Indian Theologians, “It’s hard to find a place to congregate,” that to renovate a structure built for other Christian congregations and their interac- Valerie returned to CTU this fall as a purposes would run the risk of re-creating tions with Judaism.” Bernardin Scholar in the doctor of ministry says M.A. student Thérèse Cullen. “The CTU’s current situation: holding classes, Among the afternoon’s memorable degree program. Riebe-Estrella concluded classrooms are quite small, making it moments, was Dean Gary Riebe-Estrella’s his remarks by calling the crowd’s attention difficult to gather for larger classes.” conferences, liturgies, and public events in story about CTU graduate Valerie D’Souza, to the back of the room where Valerie Despite the constraints, the array of activ- spaces intended for something else. Also, a Catholic laywoman and citizen of India, stood, a living example of the impact of ities that take place here on a daily basis the cost to renovate seemed excessive. who earned a master of arts in pastoral Jewish Studies and the life of Rabbi have somehow fit. But in recent years, the The response? Build new. President studies at CTU in 2000. Perelmuter. growth of the student body, combined with Senior explains, “After exploring many As part of her theology studies, he said, Both Lester Crown and Patrick Ryan options, we have decided to build a modern Valerie took several classes with Rabbi responded of behalf of their families, the explosion of public events sponsored by $21 million facility on our current property Perelmuter, an experience that impacted expressing gratitude to CTU for having the the Bernardin Center, have made this “fit” her view of Judaism in a life changing way. wisdom to create a chair in Jewish Studies. ever tighter and more uncomfortable. The that will include state of the art classrooms, As a result of these classes, after gradua- Lester Crown, in commenting on the advent of technology in education has also library, worship space, offices, dining and tion Valerie spent time at Yad Veshem, the motivation of the two families said, raised questions about how to keep pace meeting facilities. One floor will include Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, and “Together, with the Ryans, we wanted to with innovative ways of teaching and flexibly designed assembly space and meet- become the first Indian woman trained in do something to bridge the relationship learning that use modern technology and ing rooms dedicated to the public activities Holocaust Studies. Upon her return to between Catholics and Jews. Teaching of the Bernardin Center. This new campus India, she assumed key leadership roles both priests and Catholic lay leadership Internet, a difficult task in a building con- will be a tremendous step forward for the for the Archdiocese of Bombay, coordinat- is very important.” He gave credit to structed before computers even existed. future of CTU.” The proposed structure will ing the RCIA program as well as the Continued on page 2 Additionally, the 79-year old building is showing its age with plumbing, heating, be an open, spacious design, one which and structural concerns that require more both fits in with the neighborhood and attention and more money. remains true to CTU’s modest spirit but In 2000 President Donald Senior, C.P. limitless vision and mission. INSIDE called together a representative committee Since revealing the preliminary sketches of faculty, administration, students, and of the new building, the reception within Peacebuilders leave their mark on CTU...... page 3 formation directors for the purpose of CTU has been very positive. “I must admit “institutional planning.” With an eye to the that I’ll be sad to leave the 5401 building,” Graduation 2003...... page 5 future, the Institutional Planning committee says Thérèse. “There’s such a history in this addressed many facets of academics and life place. It carries with it a noble simplicity. A Life of Advocacy: Marie Therese McDermott ...... page 7 at CTU, and its exhaustive work culminated But when we are looking back once the new in the production of the CTU Strategic Plan building has some years, this it will be seen for 2002-07. In particular, the committee as an exciting time of change and progress.” Life Ethics seminar builds on Bernardin legacy PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE By Patricia A. Shevlin Who Sent You? DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE Among his other signature themes of Harry John Family Chair in Catholic Ethics, reconciliation, interreligious understanding, approximately 12 moral theologians from social justice, and Catholic common across the country will gather annually for a ground, Cardinal Bernardin’s ecclesial three-day seminar over a three-year period. e don’t want nobody that vision also includes the consistent ethic of Their purpose is to discuss the theological nobody sent…” These are life. He first articulated the need for this foundations, implications, and practical Wthe immortal words of overarching perspective on life’s ethical applications of a consistent ethic of life. Paddy Bawler, the notorious Chicago issues at an address given at Fordham Each gathering will include a public lecture alderman of yesteryear, to someone University on December 6, 1983. “The con- by one member of the forum. At the end seeking a political job. Knowing who sistent ethic of life,” he stated, “calls for the of the six sessions, major papers will be sponsors or stands behind someone protection and enhancement of human life published in book form. The first annual remains important not only in the from conception to natural death and in all public lecture featured Thomas Shannon, world of political machines. It is also its circumstances. The consistent ethic does professor of social ethics at Worcester good to know when a priest shows up not collapse all the issues into one, since Polytechnic Institute, whose topic was “The in your parish or a teacher in the each requires its own moral analysis. But it Consistent Ethic of Life: Rewriting and classroom—where are they from and points out that all the life issues are linked.” Editing from a Bonaventurian Perspective.” who sponsors them? In the course of subsequent lectures, This Ethics Scholars Seminar had been in I am often asked who sponsors Cardinal Bernardin related the consistent the idea phase for a few years. The project ethic of life to abortion, euthanasia, the received a jump-start and moved quickly Catholic Theological Union. Some death penalty, health care, pornography, from idea to actuality when CTU alumna, people assume that we are part of the and poverty. Barbara Menard provided a generous gift Archdiocese of Chicago and wonder Photo: Jean Clough In his October 9, 1996 letter to then CTU from the Menard Family Foundation. While how we relate to Mundelein, the fine President Rev. Norman Bevan, C.S.Sp., a student at CTU Barbara took every class Archdiocesan seminary. CTU is proud graduate. Other communities special- ize in education. Using Chicago as an Cardinal Bernardin, facing his impending that Tom Nairn taught because she found to be in Chicago and part of the death, recommended that “the prospectus of him to be such an excellent teacher, and example again, virtually all of the dynamic Catholic Church here. And the Bernardin Center make explicit mention now, in her position with Catholic Charities Catholic high schools in Chicago from we willingly show loyalty and respect of the Consistent Ethic of Life.” He added, in California, she frequently draws on to Cardinal George, our Archbishop, St. Viator’s in the suburbs, to St. Rita’s “It would be a source of great consolation information from these ethics courses. and to the regulations and policies of in the city, are run by religious to me to know that theologians will In Barbara’s words, “I will forever be this local church. communities and many of them are continue to develop the concept and grateful to the faith formation and theologi- But CTU is not technically an now directed by CTU graduates. continue that dimension of my legacy.” cal education I received while at CTU. It institution of the Archdiocese. Religious communities also run The Life Ethics Seminar held its is a place of the heart where people gather The ones who stand the hospitals, clinics, inaugural session during the first week to meet God on many levels—intellectual, behind us and, in a shelters, soup of November. This latest initiative of the social, and personal. The influence of sense, “send us” The ones kitchens, Bernardin Center is one concrete way to CTU’s graduates circles the globe and are a group of and AIDS hos- significantly advance the interests of impacts many faith communities. religious com- who stand behind pices. Cardinal Bernardin in the area of ethics. Therefore, it is with great joy that our munities—25 Another It also provides an opportunity to give family contributes to furthering the teaching serious thought and study to the unprece- and ethic of ‘our brother Joseph’ under the in all. They distinctive us and, in a sense, dented ethical questions that impact our capable hands of Tom Nairn.” In addition form a cor- feature of world today, in the light of Christian to the gift from the Menard family, the poration that religious “send us” are a communi- principles and the rich tradition of the Catholic Health Association, and its owns the Catholic Church. president, Rev. Michael Place also provided school and ties is that group of religious they are not Under the leadership of Rev. Thomas financial support for this project. provides its Nairn, O.F.M., the holder of the Erica and official ecclesi- communities, confined to a astical backing. single diocese Because of our 25 in all. but are often make-up we are one international in Crown Ryan Chair Inaugurated of only a few institutions scope. That is certainly continued from page 1 true of a majority of the reli- like this in the world. The roster of Bernardin communities who back CTU sounds gious communities at CTU. Our grad- Advisory like a church who’s who: Franciscans, uates from missionary communities Board mem- Redemptorists, Augustinians, such as the Divine Word Missionaries, ber Newton Vincentians, Passionists, Divine the Maryknolls, the Oblates, the Minow, whom he Word Missionaries, Spiritans, Spiritans, the Xaverians, the referred to Carmelites, the Capuchins, the Combonis, and the Columbans serve in more than 46 countries worldwide. as the “mid- Oblates, the Viatorians, the Servites, wife” of the the Crosiers—and on the list goes. More than one third of our student new profes- Being sponsored by religious body are international students and sorship for communities is not just a legal most of them are members of religious bringing the structure—it also gives us our communities. project to the attention of fundamental purpose and spirit. The church needs the stability of the Crowns Half of our students are members local parish communities but it also needs the leaven of a global church and Ryans of religious communities who are and urging preparing for priesthood and other that is rich in diversity. We need the them to Photo: Dean La Prairie standard ministries of administering become Left to right: Lester and Renée Crown, Newton Minow, Shirley and Patrick Ryan, President forms of service to the church. The Donald Senior, C.P. the sacraments and conducting Sunday involved. other half are lay men and women Catholic-Jewish Studies is sponsored by worship. But we also need the healing Commenting on the importance of the who also feel called to serve and the Bernardin Center for Theology and Crown Ryan Chair in Jewish Studies, who will be working hand in hand touch and strong truth of the gospel in Ministry. Catholic-Jewish Studies has been President Donald Senior said, “Under the the not so ordinary places: the hospital an integral part since the CTU’s inception with ordained priests in a host of courageous leadership of Pope John Paul wards, the inner-city classrooms, the in 1968. ministries. In many instances these II, a sea change has taken place in what Directed by Rev. John Pawlikowski, lay men and women will be partners retreat centers, the campus chapels, the historically has often been a tortured rela- professor of ethics, president of the in ministry with the same future slums of Nairobi, and the social ser- tionship between Catholics and Jews. In an International Council of Christians and vice centers of Chicago. That spirit of act of public contrition during his historic priests they study with now. Jews, and regarded as the leading Catholic bringing the gospel where is not yet millennium pilgrimage to Israel, Pope John It is pretty clear what diocesan authority on Christian-Jewish relations, the Paul II placed a message in a crevice of priests do: they staff the parishes. heard or most desperately needed, of program instills in future Christian religious the Western Wall. The message asked being mobile and free to serve God’s leaders knowledge of and respect for the But what do religious order priests God’s forgiveness for causing ‘these chil- people in extraordinary ways is what history and content of Judaism as a living and brothers do? A lot of things! dren of yours to suffer’ and renewed the religious tradition and to foster a spirit of Many religious orders do staff the church expects of its religious pledge ‘to commit ourselves to genuine dialogue and understanding. parishes and often they are the inner communities and of the lay men and brotherhood with the people of the In addition to offering courses in women who are associated with them. Covenant.’ The Pope’s powerful example city parishes. Here in Chicago, for Judaism, the Rabbi Hayim Perelmuter That is who “sends” us at CTU. has encouraged Catholics worldwide to example, religious communities staff Catholic-Jewish Conference, and the redouble their efforts to seek reconciliation 50 parishes, most of them in the Shapiro Lecture series, which brings out- and harmony with their Jewish brothers standing Jewish scholars to campus, the Hispanic and African American com- and sisters.” program also sponsors other events that munities. The famous St. Peters in the The late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin advance the Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Loop, for example, is a Franciscan made Catholic-Jewish dialogue a center- Within Chicago, the presence of Catholic parish and its pastor is a CTU Fr. Donald Senior, C.P. piece of his vision. Because of Cardinal Theological Union and its Bernardin Bernardin’s profound commitment to this Center has been vital in bringing to the dialogue, a commitment continued by his conversation the unique relationship of the successor, Francis Cardinal George, Catholic community to Judaism.

2 THE BERNARDIN CENTER Chicago Conversations In Faith looks at hospitality towards immigrants by William Jordan, M.A., ’02 Islam all mandate hospitality to the stranger, the evening that it is incumbent on them to welcome the stranger, hav- began with a dramatic presentation by the Interfaith Youth ing once been enslaved strangers in Egypt themselves. Core, a youth-led Chicago-based international interfaith In his response to Mousin’s remarks, Rev. Paul Rutgers, group that engages in social action projects. The executive director of the Council of Religious Leaders of performance established hospitality as the guiding theme Metropolitan Chicago, pointed out that suspicion of of the evening. immigrants today is not entirely a result of prejudice. He The main speaker was Rev. Craig Mousin, DePaul observed that, as a stranger, the immigrant challenges the University ombudsperson and founder of the Midwest boundary of the familiar, provoking a fundamental fear of Immigrant Rights Center. Mousin surveyed the history of the unknown. St. Paul insisted on hospitality to strangers. immigration in the United States. Although the U.S. prides In later centuries Christians conceived of a “City of God” itself on being a nation of immigrants, suspicion of outsiders that would be closed to no one. Historically and politically, dates from the early days of settlement. Quakers arriving in this has proven to be an impossible goal. The best we can the Massachusetts Bay Colony faced persecution and even do, Rutgers urged, is to accept the challenge of living with death. Throughout much of the history of this country free the competing demands of faith and citizenship. Americans ignored the immigrant issue simply by avoiding Rabbi Ira Youdovin, executive vice president of the them, moving west to escape unwelcome neighbors. As Chicago Board of Rabbis, began his response to Mousin’s Photos: Dean La Prairie long as Americans were free to pull up stakes and start remarks by recounting the story of the S.S. St. Louis, a ship Eboo Patel, executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core, converses their own towns and religions, “the nation had, as a whole, that was refused entry into American waters in 1939. Most with Emily Soloff, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, Chicago chapter. little issue with immigration.” of the 937 passengers aboard were Jews fleeing Nazism. That changed in the 1870s when large numbers of The ship returned to Europe, where many of its passengers For years Catholic Theological Union has been a Chinese immigrants arrived to build the nation’s railroads. faced death in concentration camps. pioneer in the field of interreligious dialogue, bringing By the end of the 19th century even the Supreme Court Youdovin observed that while the “prophetic heritage” members of Chicago’s Catholic and Jewish communities had adopted the rhetoric that immigrants comprised an of Judaism “animates Jews to resist attempts to stem the together to learn, debate, and grow together in faith. invading army. This rhetoric influences judicial debates continued on page 6 CTU’s practice of interreligious dialogue entered a new about immigration to this day, era on September 24. Dialogue became a three-way Mousin said. conversation as Chicago-area Jews, Christians, and Mousin outlined some of Muslims came together at the Chicago Historical Society the specific problems that for the first of two “Chicago Conversations in Faith.” face immigrants in the post- Organized by the Bernardin Center and supported by September 11 climate. These a grant from the Chicago Community Trust, this ground- problems include lengthy breaking initiative gives religious and civic leaders and detentions, difficulty in members of the public an opportunity to discuss matters securing legal representation, of social concern from the shared perspective of the closed hearings, and the Abrahamic faiths. By facilitating interreligious dialogue, increased criminalization Chicago Conversations encourage collaboration, reduce of immigration issues. tensions, and improve relationships in the community. Mousin urged that when Entitled, “Welcoming the Stranger: Liberty, Homeland framing their attitude toward Security, and the Immigrant,” this event examined some outsiders, American Jews, of the challenges that face immigrants in the United States Muslims, and Christians in the wake of September 11. recall the words of Lev. 19:33- Photos: Dean La Prairie Founded on the premise that Judaism, Christianity, and 34, a reminder to the Israelites Chicago Conversations in Faith speakers, left to right: Rabbi Ira Youdovin, Rev. Paul Rutgers, Kareem Irfan.

A Lesson in Transformation: The 2003-04 Peacebuilders Initiative by Angela Appleby Purcell DIRECTOR, THE PEACEBUILDERS INITIATIVE builders emerged as a community Excerpts from Andy Taube’s empowered to think, pray, speak, and act Peacebuilders Journal, June, 2003 as Christian leaders, transformed from I am home now. This was truly an participants into Peacebuilders. amazing experience…As I think about it “I know what I want to do with my life,” now, I realize that all of the people there proclaimed Jim Grady, a Brother Rice High School student. “I want to study theology were truly amazing. Everyone had an and work for peace.” unbelievably positive attitude…There was With help from 14 talented mentors not one instant where I felt upset or frus- (mostly CTU graduate students), six CTU trated during the entire week. It was just faculty, seven church and service amazing. We were marching in the light organizations, and CTU staff members, of God every second of this week. I will the Peacebuilders followed a rigorous daily schedule of rich, intimate prayer try my hardest to keep marching in the experiences (13 in all), “encouraging and light of God. I can honestly say that I love empowering” theology sessions (their every person that was there with me… words), and a diversity of poignant We lived in complete peace for this ministry opportunities. week. Why can’t the world do the same? Evenings they returned to their CTU home base to reflect theologically on the I guess not everyone in the world is an day’s events, nurture their minds and amazingly awesome peacebuilder....at Photo: Daniel O’Connell The 2003-04 Peacebuilders Initiative: participants, mentors, and staff. bodies through yoga, and build lasting least not yet. It happened for us because friendships through free-time activities. we all have learned what gifts and As they say, “If you build it, they will come.” And come they The transformation taking place in their hearts was palpable, resources we have to contribute to build- did as 37 dynamic, faith-filled teens from Chicago and Wisconsin offering a sign of hope for us and our church. came to CTU this past June to be in the Peacebuilders Initiative’s On the last day the Peacebuilders were commissioned in a ing peace and we have realized the good first class. During the seven intense, prayer service to return to that we can create by using those gifts and thought-provoking, and “shibby” their schools, parishes, and resources. We all put forth our own effort (teenspeak for cool) days, these communities and there create to bring about peace, and it came together teenagers were immersed in the and implement their own as if we could exist no other way. If every- theology and ministry of peace, justice, Peace Projects. The projects, and reconciliation. to be designed in the next one in the world learned what their gifts Whether learning the biblical founda- months, would be an extension and resources that they have to build tions of peacebuilding from Professor of the skills and experiences peace, and if they were given the chance Barbara Reid, O.P., exploring the mean- of the week. They would also to see the good that they can create by ing of reconciliation with Professor be the beginning of a life using those gifts, the world will live in Robert Schreiter, C.PP.S., or befriending dedicated to building peace. peace. Thank you God for this amazing the elderly, homeless, or displaced of Challenging her peers society at the afternoon ministry sites, (not to mention all of us), gift! Let it remain clear in my mind and the young theologians were serious Cindy Bangert of Immaculate fresh in my heart. about learning and living out the Conception Parish summed it Catholic tradition of peace and justice. Photo: Daniel O’Connell up: “Our Peace Projects are Andy Taube is a senior at Brother Rice Though strangers at the start, by Peacebuilder Randy Herron, right, worked at Misericordia Home during the afternoon ministry site visits. Randy is seen here with a not supposed to be like another High School in Chicago. week’s end the aspiring young peace- resident of Misericordia. Continued on page 4

3 Peacebuilders Initiative Bernardin Center welcomes new scholars continued from page 3

homework assignment. It is not some- unmistakable blessing to the CTU thing I do once a year when it is conve- community. In one week, these 37 teens nient. My life is my peace project!” opened a new and exciting chapter in the Cindy and her fellow Peacebuilders are life of CTU, and I dare say in the life of living up to this challenge by creatively the larger church community. addressing the needs of their community When the week ended, everyone through their projects. For example: mourned the stillness and silence of the Nazareth High School senior Katie classrooms once filled with vibrant, Ainge, has developed F.I.S.H. (Friends Spirit-filled peacebuilders. Rev. Gary in Service and Hospitality), to create Riebe-Estrella, S.V.D., a self-proclaimed lasting relationships between high school “doubting-Thomas” could hardly wait to students and people with mental and post a message on the Peacebuilders physical disabilities. website telling the teens how much he Café-talks are being sponsored by missed them. “They did something to

Photo: Angela Appleby Purcell Annette Alvarado, Jackie Duffy, me and to CTU,” admitted Fr. Gary, who New Bernardin Scholars, from left to right: Back row, Shaun Johnson, Philip Rogers, Melissa Link, Colin and Patricia Nowakowski (Queen of had been an integral and inspiring facili- Crossey, Sr. Ann Pratt, Kathryn Savage, José Luis Aguilar-Carbajal, Sr. Antoine Lawlor, Margaret Guadagno; Peace High School) as a way to tator, presider, comedian, confessor, and Front row, Stacion Dorrant, Rebecca Otte, Valerie D’Souza, Katherine DeVries. respectfully discuss polarizing issues companion to the peacebuilders In October, the Bernardin Center welcomed Shaun Johnson M.A. in Theology/Research, 13 impressive and diverse new Bernardin Concentration: Ethics. Shaun was an active such as racism, religious discrimination, And who would have guessed that Scholars. Director Sheila McLaughlin said, staff member and volunteer at Old St. and global conflict. Professor Bob Schreiter would wear his “Our evening together included Msgr. Ken Joseph’s Parish in DePere, Wisc. He has Randy Herron (Hales Franciscan High Peacebuilders T-shirt to work—his own Velo’s moving and inspiring personal worked as a sacristan, lay minister, religious School) and Diana Olivares (Cristo Rey fashion statement. While we had reflections on Cardinal Bernardin, as well education instructor, and retreat leader for High School) educate grammar school planned, prepared, and dreamed about as the introduction and welcoming of the high school students. A service trip to scholars. This remarkable group of students Cuernavaca, Mexico, reinforced his commit- children on the dangers of gang the positive impact we would have on includes an ordained Presbyterian minister, ment to a teaching vocation at the college involvement, encouraging non-violent these “future” church leaders, little did a lawyer from Mexico, and a peacemaker level. He and his wife recently relocated to responses to neighborhood conflicts. we anticipate that these future leaders from Northern Ireland.” Hyde Park. Believe me, when we planned would be church for us. José Luis Aguilar-Carbajal M.A. in Theology, Sr. Antoine Lawlor D.Min., Concentration: Peacebuilders two years ago, we did not After the midweek reconciliation Concentration: Ethics. A practicing lawyer in Spirituality. Assistant superintendent of see designing this high school program service Fr. Gary commented, “After his native Mexico, José earned his law degree schools for the Diocese of Camden, N.J. for as an opportunity for transformation— hearing and witnessing what took place from Guanajuato State University. In Chicago, 10 years, Sr. Antoine has served as a teacher, as an invitation for God’s grace to open tonight I have no doubt that our church he has worked as a lay minister and an edu- principal, and director of Catholic school our eyes and hearts. CTU is a graduate is in good hands.” cator. He served as a Maryknoll lay missionary marketing for the diocese. A published author in Santiago, Chile, from 1985-87. Currently, he on spirituality and ministry topics, Sr. Antoine school of theology–what can we learn Cardinal Bernardin had known this is a service coordinator at Northwestern is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the from teenagers? But it happened. The instinctively when he told a group of Memorial Hospital and performs with Ad Immaculate Heart of Mary, and holds an energy and enthusiasm, idealism and teens, “You’re a part of the church here Libitum, a Latin American Folk Music M.A. in religious education and a Pontifical goodness, sincerity and honesty, and now, and you have a contribution to Ensemble, he helped found. José and his wife catechetical diploma from Notre Dame have four children, ages 7 through 15. Catechetical Institute, Arlington, VA. vulnerability and openness became an make.” How right he was!

Colin Crossey D.Min., Concentration: Cross- Melissa Link M.A. in Theology, cultural mission. Currently director of the Concentration: Ethics. Melissa is the Christian Aisling Centre, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, living teacher and director of campus ministry a community agency run by the Sisters of at Queen of Peace High School in suburban Mercy, Colin is a native of Northern Ireland. Chicago. An internship with a community orga- He has worked with the homeless in Dublin nization in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood and in London’s East End; youth in inner-city and her participation in the 1999 March for Miami as well as Trinidad and Tobago, and the Life reinforced her commitment to study Mill Hill Fathers in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds Catholic ethics and Cardinal Bernardin’s an M.A. in psychological studies from Queen’s theology on the “seamless garment of life.” University, Belfast, and a master’s in clinical social work from Barry University, Miami, FL. Rebecca A. Otte M.A. in Theology & M.Div. A 2003 graduate of St. Norbert’s College in Katherine DeVries D.Min., Concentration: Minnesota, Rebecca’s interest in graduate Word & Worship. Associate director of theology was prompted by her religious Chicago’s Young Adult Ministry for 15 years, studies coursework at St. Norbert’s, and her Kate is both a CTU alumna and an adjunct experience as a resident of Justice House, a member of the faculty, teaching in the women’s community at the college. This past Summer Institute. She earned her M.Div. from year, she has worked at the college’s Peace CTU in 1999 and holds a master’s in pastoral and Justice Center and with its English-as-a- studies from Loyola University’s Institute of Second-Language Institute. Photo: Daniel O’Connell Pastoral Studies. Professor Robert Schrieter teaches the Peacebuilders’ theology session on reconciliation. Sr. Ann M. Pratt M.A. in Theology, Stacion Dorrant M.A. in Theology, Concentration: Ethics/Cross-Cultural Mission. Concentration: Ethics. A native of Jamaica, A widow who joined the Racine (Wisconsin) Reflection Stacion graduated from St. Joseph’s Teachers Dominican community in July 2000, Sr. Ann by Elizabeth Toohey College in Kingston, Jamaica, and then taught has worked in social services and ministry for CHAIR, PEACEBUILDERS ADVISORY BOARD elementary school for several years, support- more than two decades. She has been an ing her mother and nine-year-old son. Active abuse and neglect investigator for the Illinois One of the essential elements of the Peacebuilders Initiative is the Advisory Board, in her parish community, she served as a Department of Children & Family Services, in a group of young adult Catholics who are active in their faith and inspired to serve. catechist, the president of the church council, special needs adoption services, and in ado- This group meets regularly to ensure that Peacebuilders stays true to its mission and to and a member of the liturgy planning council. lescent drug and alcohol rehabilitation. In explore ways to raise the visibility of the program and secure its place for youth in years She began at CTU in 2002, supported by an 1997, she joined the staff of the University of to come. Elizabeth Toohey, chief of staff for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur International Women’s Scholarship. Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she managed Foundation, is chair of the Advisory Board. the training program for 500 Wisconsin child- Valerie D’Souza Doctor of Ministry, welfare social workers. I agreed to serve as the chair of the Advisory Board of the Peacebuilders Concentration: Liturgy. Since 1992, Valerie has worked with the Diocesan Pastoral Rev. Philip Charles Rogers D.Min., Initiative because the philosophy and mission of Peacebuilders resonated with my Centre in Bombay, India, taking a two-year Concentration: Spirituality. Rev. Rogers is a notion of how to change the world. I have always tried in one way or another to hiatus to earn an M.A.P.S. at CTU. Returning Presbyterian minister and associate dean of to Bombay, she became a lecturer at the students and campus minister at Albertson live my Catholic faith through service. I also believed in the potential of the Centre. She helped launch the RCIA program College of Idaho. He has taught New Peacebuilders Initiative because it was rooted at CTU—a place of genuine faith for the diocese. She recently published Walk Testament, Greek, and the writings of C. S. formation and Catholic education. I was so excited about this new program at as a Child of the Light, a text for para-liturgical Lewis; worked as a project coordinator for celebrations in small Christian communities. Potter’s Clay in Mexico, and been a silent CTU because it focused on nurturing young people— to give them concrete, real She is a member of the Association of Indian retreat facilitator at Seattle Pacific University. exposure to living their Catholic faith and the intellectual framework to understand Women Theologians and the Diocesan He holds an M.Div. from Fuller Theological the transformative power of such active faith—for themselves and for others. Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue. Seminary in Pasadena, CA, and belongs to the American Academy of Religion/Society of We are now well into the second year of the Peacebuilders Initiative with teens Margaret Guadagno M.A. in Theology, Biblical Literature. He is married with two who participated in the Summer Program fully immersed in developing and Concentration: Church History, Liturgy. daughters. implementing their Peace Projects. All the while, the capable and dedicated staff Director of Liturgy and the RCIA program at her home parish, St. Ann’s in Lansing, Ill., Kathryn Savage M.A. in Theology, members at CTU are working to develop two Summer Programs for 2004, while Margaret holds the Tri-Diocesan Certificate in Concentration: Liturgy. Music director at also continuing to bring in new partners for the Initiative. The Advisory Board Catechumenate Ministry from the Archdiocese St. Robert Bellarmine Parish, Chicago, helps support and guide all this work. We are certainly busy, but already we have of Chicago and the dioceses of Gary and Kathryn’s interest in ministry began in child- Joliet. At St. Ann’s for 13 years, she is hood, working with her parents at evangelical witnessed success as teens have grown in their Catholic faith and begin reach out responsible for the formation of the RCIA missions. A member of Moody Church in to others through their Peace Projects. team, eucharistic ministers and lectors, and Chicago, Kathryn converted to Catholicism in I am energized by my participation on the Advisory Board of the Peacebuilders the parish catechists. She and her husband 1979. She earned a B.A. in theology and have four young adult children. pastoral ministry from Dominican University Initiative. I stay involved because I believe this program is vital to developing an in 2003. Wife, mother, and grandmother, she educated Catholic laity for our Church’s future. It is also essential to encourage will continue her full-time liturgical work at St. Robert’s while studying part-time at CTU. and teach young people how to be peacebuilders. Finally, and most importantly, I believe the Peacebuilders Initiative is one way to change the world.

4 GRADUATION 2003

GRADUATION ADDRESS Do it with love by Christine Hoyne Hopkins, M.Div. ’03

Christine Hoyne Hopkins, a Chicago native, received preparing for ordained a bachelor of science in nursing from the College of sacramental ministry, St. Theresa (Winona, Minn.). She worked as a psychiatric nurse at Foster G. McGaw Hospital (Loyola, Maywood), and those preparing to and then was a stay-at-home mom for four daughters minister as business born within five years. Chris also volunteered as a professionals, city plan- religious education teacher for 10 years and started the minster of care program at her local parish. ners, and health care Chris says, “My kids were getting older and I realized providers. I see those I wasn’t ready for a rocking chair. So I started a who will travel the certificate for lay ministry at Saint Xavier’s University (Ill.) I thought about going back to nursing, but felt more world as missionaries, drawn to parish work. Besides there is a lot of and those who will stay interconnection between a healthy spirituality and a in place to minister to health psychology. I realized, however, it was way too much work for just a certificate. When I was invited into migrant peoples. I see the position of Pastoral Associate by my pastor, I began those who will walk the master of pastoral studies at Loyola University’s through prison gates to Institute of Pastoral Studies. I ultimately transferred my credits to CTU and completed the master of divinity.” be with the forgotten Today, Chris is the pastoral associate at Our Lady of and the condemned. Surrounding Chris Hopkins, center, is her family, from left to right: Sara, 21, interior architecture student at Columbia the Woods Parish in Orland Park, Ill. She was chosen College, Becky, 24, studying to be a physician’s assistant at Emory University, son-in-law Nestor Eliadas and daugh- I see leaders of families ter Beth, 26, his wife, social worker at La Rabida Children’s Hospital, husband Bill, a general surgeon at Christ by her classmates to speak on their behalf at the 2003 Hospital, Oak Lawn, daughter Anne, 22, student at Depaul College of Law. Commencement ceremony. The following is her address. and leaders of religious communities. I see lay When you fall in love, your world is forever different Now, I don’t know about you, my friends, but I am and religious peoples dreaming of sharing the vision and you do become a new person. most surprised to not only be: 1) graduating, but also, of Jesus in the classroom and the boardroom. I see Hopefully, no matter what your state in life: single, 2) up here speaking to you. When a friend informed me women and men committed to and rooted in Gospel celibate, lay or religious, married—with or without that she planned to nominate me to be the graduation values. In other words, my friends, I see the Church of children– you love someone at least once in your life. speaker, I thought to myself: What could I possibly say? today and tomorrow! Then you will know that love can never be mandated, Me, a suburban homemaker, granted, a suburban This year CTU celebrates its 35th regulated, legislated, nor doctrinated. homemaker with a phenomenal ministerial year of educating priests and One can not be frightened into loving nor guilt-tripped education. But still I am much more ministers. I suspect the into loving. Love can only be freely offered, freely comfortable describing myself as a That’s all we graduating class and received, and freely returned. That’s all we really have wife and mother, former girl scout the faculty looked to do: Help others fall in love with God. leader and hot dog mom. really have to do: very different in Yes, we have been gathered from all walks of life But theologian or minister? many ways in 1968. and all corners of the earth. And then, I remembered: God is Help others fall in But the vision of We have been educated, formed, encouraged, empow- good. I understood—that is exactly the those who founded ered, supported, and challenged. All of our exegetical point: All are invited to ministry—whether love with God. CTU remains the same: papers, doctrinal thesis and philosophical treatises and it be inside or outside official church structure. to be BOLD AND formation exercises were only meant for one purpose: Each and every human being is invited to be the FAITHFUL!! Faithful to the to somehow get it through our thick-headed skulls and presence of Christ to another. tremendously rich tradition of our Catholic crusty hearts that God desires to be in a love relationship Just look around you fellow graduates. Who do you heritage, yet wise and bold enough to know that it is with us: That God invites us to fall head over heels, see? From my vantage point I see men and women! not just museum preservation that makes known the singing in the rain, joyously, raucously in love. Quite remarkable for a school which started as a reign of God, but in truth, it is those who have fallen Then we can do nothing less but live in generous seminary for priestly ordination! I see people of all ages, in love with God. service with justice and in peace. We have no other of all skin colors, of all nations of origin. I see former Because when you are in love, it changes everything: choice than to be icons of the one amazingly generous, teachers, business executives, theater professors, and It changes who you are, what you talk about, what you living and loving God. We have been gifted and so we homemakers. I see individuals who have already given do, how you spend your time, your talent, your money; must now share that gift. their lives in dedicated service to the poor. I see those It changes what is important in your life. So, go forth, my friends. Be faithful, be bold, laugh a lot, cry a little less and whatever you do, do it with love.

Rev. Thomas Berry, C.P., recipient of the honorary 2003 honorary degree recipients, from left: Death penalty opponent Sr. Helen Prejean; author and ecological Photos: Monte Gerlach doctorate in theology, addresses the graduates. theologian Rev. Thomas Berry, C.P.; founders of CTU’s Catholic-Muslim Studies program Catherine and Libia Paez-Howard, Romero Scholar, earned a James Denny. master of divinity degree.

5 ALUMNEWS

Paul Vincent Reithmaier (M.Div. ’74) was the excellent scholarly reputation of the Peter C. Ciallella, c.s. (M.Div. ’98) has AZ, she is headed back to Milwaukee to writes, “My wife, Jan, and I are serving as faculty. What I did not expect, and was relocated to Toronto, Canada. He serves as assume her new role as Vicaress of the co-chairs of the Circle (Board) of Directors overjoyed to find, was that the deep faith associate pastor of St. Anthony’s Church. He Sisters of the Divine Saviour. of the Federation of Christian Ministries. of the faculty members came through loud says, “I also do some chaplaincy ministry at FCM is a national organization founded 35 and clear in their classes and interactions two elementary schools and one high Catherine Endicott (M.A. ’03) is the new years ago. The 600 ministers (both women with students.’ I assured our own students school. Our parish is located right near the development director with the Center for the and men) who belong to FCM do traditional here that WTU would hold this experience downtown area of Toronto on Bloor Street, Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence and non-traditional ministry in many states for them.” a hub of diversity where over 25 languages in Seattle, WA (cpsdv.org). She writes, “After of our country. FCM certifies qualified can be heard at any one time.” Peter a five year sabbatical this will be an awak- ministers to do public ministry, such as Barbara Shananhan, (Cert. ’88, M.A. ’90) co-edited Migration, Religous Experience ening of many sorts. I became familiar with weddings. Many of us work with people an instructor in the Catholic biblical studies and Globalization (Center for Migration this organization through an ethics/ministry who feel alientated from the institutional program at St. John Eudes Center in West Studies), a collection of papers presented at class I took on power and abuse...Founded churches, especially the Catholic Church.” Seneca, NY, received the St. John Eudes the 2002 Conference on Migration and in 1977 by the Rev. Marie M. Fortune, the award for collaborative leadership and lay Theology in Tijuana, Mexico. He is editor of Center is an interreligious educational Cornelius (Neil) T. McQuillan, C.S.Sp., ministry. the Scalabrinians quarterly magazine. The resource addressing issues of sexual and (M.Div. ’75) had an article published in the last issue featured a joint statement by the domestic violence. Our goal is to engage Boletín of the Medical Association of Puerto Vanessa White (M.T.S. ’91, D.Min. student), Mexican and U.S. Bishops’ conferences on religious leaders in the task of ending abuse Rico (May/June 2003): “Psychotherapy for director of the Tolton Program at CTU, was migration, Together on the Journey. and to serve as a bridge between religious Children and Adolescents Suffering awarded the Adele Stadeker Award at the and secular communities. After 26 years, Depression”. He writes, “I was elected Major St. Peter Claver Day celebration. The Russell Testa (M.A. ’98) and Megeen we are changing our name to FaithTrust Superior of the Spiritan Circumscription of Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary White (M.A.P.S. ’98) were married on July 5 Institute. We are very much an interfaith Puerto Rico. This will be my fourth term. is a national Catholic charitable organization in Arlington, VA. Russ is the peace and institute with a rabbi on staff and a Muslim Last year I was awarded a doctorate in that serves the church and humanity. Each justice coordinator for the Holy Name religious leader consultant. I believe I am psychology (Psy.D.) from California Coast year the local Inter-Council recognizes Province of the Franciscans. bringing the Roman Catholic connection! I University. I am a pastor of a rural parish a Lady who has exhibited exemplary am very excited about this pportunity–being in the largest barrio in Puerto Rico, in the dedication not only to the organization but Angela Hibbard, I.H.M. (D.Min. ’99) writes, committed to a mission that very much res- Diocese of Arecibo. My doctoral studies who has made a substantial contribution to “Liturgical Press recently published my onates with what I feel called to do–a call centered on preventive therapy for victims society as well. small book of meditations Dying With which became very apparent during my of childhood sexual abuse to stop them from Jesus. The idea for the book originated in studies at CTU. I feel this position will be later becoming perpetrators themselves.” John Thomas Lane, S.S.S. (M.Div. ’92) Fr Fragomeni’s class on the church’s death an excellent opportunity to integrate my has been appointed pastor of Saint Charles rituals. When I learned that in the Middle sales/marketing/mission/theology Celeste Rossmiller (M.T.S. ’82) is in the Borromeo Catholic Church, Albuquerque, Ages people read the Passion aloud to the experiences in a very holistic environment Joint Ph.D. program in theological and New Mexico. dying, I wondered, ‘What about Stations of and manner. Thanks to all of you for your religious studies at Iliff School of Theology/ the Cross for the dying?’ There was nothing support along the way.” Denver University. She says, “I will compose Alan Phillip, C.P. (Israel Study Program ’92) out there like it. Drawing on the insights of a my dissertation in the area of ecotheology: wrote From Blues to Smiles: 21 Ways to friend who is a chaplain and what I had STUDENTS a formational spirituality and sustainable Deal with Depression. It is available in experienced through the deaths of my broth- Jeremy Langford (M.A.), Bernardin lifestyle based in the Eucharist and local both an e-book edition and a print edition er-in-law and a good friend, I created the Scholar, and his wife Liz, are the proud food sources. It will include material from (www.blues2smiles.com). booklet. It’s a set of scripture texts followed parents of Tyler Joseph, 7 lbs, 3 oz. and 21” the bio-regional letters of some of the U.S. by a dialogue between the patient and who arrived on August 27. Jeremy says, Bishops. I am also affiliate faculty at Kathleen Spears Hopkins (M.T.S. ’93) is Jesus. I tried to get into the authentic experi- “This miracle comes, something you made. Regis University in the religious studies one of three authors of At Home with the ence of the dying person, and the reviews But I already had a high view of women– department.” Word (Liturgy Training Publications) a book so far—mostly health-care professionals and women carry, women deliver, women nurse– for small groups or individuals. It contains chaplains—indicate that I succeeded. they are warriors and my personal heroes.” Dolly Sokol (M.T.S. ‘83) is director of the the texts of the Sunday readings for Year C, Lots of people read Logos, many of them Jeremy is editorial director of Sheed & Ward Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of parts of the responsorial psalms, and scrip- may have family members who are dying Book Publishing and author of God Santa Fe and was the liturgist for the ordina- ture reflections with questions for study and or may be in pastoral situations where this Moments: Why Faith Really Matters to a tion of the largest permanent deacon class discussion, as well as meditations on the would be helpful.” New Generation (Orbis) and with Rev. Al in the U.S. Her husband, Joe Herrera, Jr., virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude, Spilly, co-editor of Journey to Peace. was one of the 61 men to be ordained. Dolly and justice. Jerry Higgins, O.F.M. Cap. (D.Min. ’99) received a Worship Renewal Grant from the is taking a semester sabbatical at the Roxanne Morin (M.Div. ’03 Candidate) is Lilly Foundation through Calvin Institute for Carlos Ramos de Sousa (M.Div. ’93, M.A. Franciscan Institute in Toronto, Canada. the new pastoral associate for St. John Worship. The funding supports the Liturgical ’94) writes, “Here in Portugal everything Neumann Parish, Eagan, Minn. A St. Paul Institute of the Southwest a two-year train- goes fine. I’m the pastor of six parishes Paul Duffy, M.M. (Cert. ’00) writes from native who left 25 years ago, Roxanne ing and formation program for parish liturgi- because here in the Diocese of Viseu, we Taiwan: “While on Maryknoll Formation staff returns to join her parents, six siblings and cal leaders. She was recently elected to the are very short in vocations. Lots of work. I was able to take classes leading up to the their families who live there still. With 200+ national council of the National Association I really miss you all and I hope next year to certificate in spiritual formation. In 2000 ministries, a large staff and a “great” website of Pastoral Musicians. She is a member of visit CTU. My four years at CTU were the I took part in the nine-month long staff (sjn.org) St. John Neumann is a 4,000 family the board of directors of the Federation of best years of all my entire life as a student. associate program at the Guelph Centre parish highly involved in social justice in the Diocesan Liturgical Commissions and the [I hope] my bishop will accept [my] proposal of Spirituality in Canada. Presently I work Twin Cities. Roxanne’s work includes teach- Southwest Liturgical Conference. to go to CTU to study in the Doctor of here at the Ignatian Center of Spirituality in ing, modeling, and working with those work- Ministry program. Taipei. We provide mostly individually ing the ministries of charity. “My interest is to Fr. Nonito B. Adorable, C.P. (M.T.S. ’84). directed retreats and are beginning to offer help others see the connection between writes in a note: “CTU, my dear Alma Kathy Schmitt (M.Div. ’95) is now the this type of retreat in local parishes.” how we interpret doctrine and how we live Mater—My Provincial Superior has given director of the Appalachian Office of Justice our lives, hopefully encouraging them to me an assignment to be an assistant pastor and Peace in the Diocese of Richmond, Sean McEntee, O.M.I. (M.A., M.Div. ’01) focus on the longer term commitment in Holy Cross Parish in General Santos City Virginia. This diocesan position includes formerly the parochial vicar at St. Patrick’s required by social justice ministries. For in the Philippines.” hosting immersion trips, promoting Catholic Church in Houston, has taken the same my part, I am incredibly grateful for all of social teaching and educating about peace, position at St. Williams Church in Tewskbury, the support, encouragement, care, and Marion C. Moeser, O.S.F. (M.T.S., ’84) justice, and ecology issues. Her email is Mass. modeling I received from both St. Alphonsus writes, “I just completed my first year as vice [email protected]. Liguori Parish in Prospect Heights, Ill., and president for academic affairs and academic Maria Santa Lucia (M.Div. ’01) teaches CTU.” She hopes to continue to pursue a dean of Washington Theological Union. Susan Pudelek (M.Div. ’96) is program theology at Maria High School on the south Ph.D. in systematic theology. My very positive experience at CTU was a associate for the 2004 Parliament of the side of Chicago. This fall she teaches factor in taking a position at another Union World’s Religions in Barcelona, Spain. Hebrew and Christian scripture classes model school. When I addressed the new Formerly the executive director of Stauros as well as women’s spirituality. students last fall, the last thing I said to them USA, she expects 10,000 people to attend NOTE: Please send your news and was something like this: ‘I have an M.T.S. the Parliament next July. Carol Thresher, S.D.S. (M.A. ’02) writes photos to AlumnNews, CTU, Room 204, from CTU. What I knew going into CTU that after a short nine month stay in Tuscon, or e-mail: [email protected].

Chicago Conversations in Faith flow of immigrants to this nation of immigrants,” this I saw” between the three communities. She said she same heritage safeguards the right of self-defense. The appreciated the ties that the presenters drew between continued from page 3 principal challenge to the religious community, he said, is the Bible, the Torah, and the Qu’ran and the situation to work collaboratively to balance these competing imper- immigrants face in the U.S. today. atives. In this way members of the religious community Melanie Maron, assistant area director of the American can be “bearers of light.” Jewish Committee, stated, “The most important thing The final response was by Kareem Irfan, president, CTU has done in convening Chicago Conversations is to Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago. create a forum that focuses shared energy and concern Irfan focused on the experience of the Muslim community on issues that demand urgent attention.” in the U.S. since September 11. He underscored the fact Colin Crossey is a D.Min. student at CTU. Having that Muslim immigrants are being unfairly singled out come to CTU from Northern Ireland, he understands for scrutiny, and made to feel as if they are strangers first-hand the need for dialogue in today’s world. Crossey in their own adopted land. Irfan maintained that this said he left the Conversation with an enhanced under- amounts to a test of faith and perseverance for the standing that “hospitality is much more than the inclusion Muslim community. For Jews, Christians, and others, of the other.” True hospitality recognizes different ways of it is a test of their commitment to civil liberties and the thinking. It is the core of what it is to be a Jew, Christian, biblical value of hospitality. or Muslim. Although it is “risky,” he said, it is also Chicago Conversations attracted a diverse and “absolutely necessary to bring Jews, Christians, and enthusiastic audience. Miriam Zayed is a Muslim and Muslims together to search out that common thread.” a member of the Illinois Humanities Council, which The second Chicago Conversations in Faith, sponsored “Sisters: Women, Religion, and Leadership "Choosing Peace: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Christianity and Islam,” a two-day conference held at Preparing Our Children for Life Together," will take place Photo: Dean La Prairie CTU last March. Reflecting on her experience at Chicago February 9 at the Chicago Cultural Center. Arne Duncan, Kareem Irfan and Rev. Stanley Davis, continue the conversation after the Conversations in Faith, Zayed said, “I liked the solidarity CEO, Chicago Public Schools, is a featured speaker. program. 6 ministry. In 1986 John gave a powerful keynote address at the National Consultation on the Vocation of the Laity in the World (a moment artistically captured by the well-known Chicago artist, Franklin McMahon), in Lives of Advocacy: which he exhorted all Catholics to awaken to the dignity and greatness of their lay A legacy entrusted to CTU vocation. “To live Christ in the world is to work effectively for an abundant, human life for all the people of the world. That is good work. It is God’s work. It is our By Patricia A. Shevlin work. It is the work of the Church and it will not be done if we do not do it.” DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE The mission of Catholic Theological Union found a home in the hearts of the McDermotts. Over the years they brought many of their Hyde Park friends and Stepping into the McDermotts’ Hyde Park home begins a journey into the CTU personnel together in friendship. Since John’s death in 1996, Marie Therese admirable lives of two Chicagoans whose dedication to social justice significantly has remained a faithful friend, attending most CTU events, serving on committees, impacted the city of Chicago. Books, photographs, memorabilia, and packed file and contributing financially to its continued growth. drawers hint at the remarkable story of Marie Therese and her late husband, John In addition, she has thoughtfully remembered CTU in her estate plans. McDermott, pioneering friends of CTU. Marie Therese explains, “CTU is a picture of the church of the future. It In their early adult years, both were independently involved in interracial issues. successfully integrates great diversity, and is open to and respectful of As a young teacher in Chicago, and influenced by an exceptionally difficult experi- religious differences. In remembering CTU, I hope John’s ence in an overcrowded, very poor, and very segregated school, Marie Therese memory will stay alive in this institution which was involved in the newly-forming group, Teachers for Integrated Schools. She reflects the values to which he dedicated was also an active volunteer at Friendship House. Marie Therese was invited to his whole life.” serve on the board of the Catholic Interracial Council in 1960, just about the time The generous lives of Marie that a young dynamic leader, John McDermott, was appointed as the new director. Therese and the late John He had come to Chicago after working in interracial relations in Philadelphia, New McDermott are a call to CTU to York City, and Washington, D.C. Their common values and commitments drew educate and shape others them together, and they were married in 1964. who will continue to serve Under John’s leadership, the Catholic Interracial Council organized picket lines the church and society and sit-ins, confronted politicians and church leaders, and collaborated with with the same intensity numerous other religious and civic groups. These activities, along with the birth of and focus. the now 32-year old publication, The Chicago Reporter, founded and published by John and focusing on race, poverty, and urban affairs, caused tremendous changes to Chicago’s Catholic, civic, and social life over the years, and made Readers who, the names of John and Marie Therese McDermott synonymous with “advocacy like Marie Therese McDermott, are for justice.” interested in placing There was hardly a cause in which John or Marie Therese did not have a voice. CTU in their estate Their involvement in a Catholic-Jewish dialogue group led them, through plans should contact Professor John Pawlikowski, to make the acquaintance of CTU, an institution that their attorneys. The mirrored their own spirit in so many ways, and one they recognized to be of great CTU development staff is happy to assist benefit for Hyde Park, Chicago, and the church. “CTU was so imaginative and with any additional inclusive, ‘bold and faithful,’ as Monsignor Jack Egan put it. We were honored to information needed. have played even so small a part,” says Marie Therese, looking back on those Contact Bill Booth at earlier years. “I was especially proud when John was asked to be the commence- 773-753-7473 or email ment speaker for the CTU graduation in 1983.” [email protected]. Devoted Catholics, the McDermotts had a keen understanding of their role as baptized lay members of the Church. They witnessed through the example of Marie Therese and their extraordinary lives the phenomenon of the “call of the laity” that CTU now John McDermott traveled to the Holy Land with so evidently witnesses in the many lay students who come to be educated for CTU in 1993.

Dame Angie says her mission is to help young people recog- HEART & SOUL New Faces at CTU nize their potential as Christian leaders. Carlos Salméron Director, Oscar “To see who Catholic Theological Union really is, Differences? A Learning Resource for Jews and Christians Romero Scholars Program Carlos to get down to the core of what makes our school (Westview 2001). Rabbi Sandmel’s previous positions Salméron earned a master in arts in the- unique, you have to look beyond the buildings, include the Jewish Scholar at the Institute for Christian and ology and a master of divinity from beyond the neighborhood, even beyond the great city Jewish Studies in Baltimore. There he directed the National CTU in 2000, and did undergraduate in whose backyard we make our home. To see who Jewish Scholars Project, which published Dabru Emet: a work at the Institute of Philosophy in we are, you have to look at our people. Because it is Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity (2000). Mexico. Before taking his current posi- the amazing talent and heart and passion of our peo- tion, Carlos worked at the Office for ple that makes CTU come alive.” These words that New Administrators Racial Justice for the Archdiocese of introduce the “Who We Are” section on our website Kathleen Van Duser Director, Chicago, and has extensive ministerial express the sentiments we often hear as to why CTU Admissions & Recruitment A 2002 experience, including serving as direc- is a special place. It’s because people are heart and graduate of CTU with a master of arts tor of religious education at St. Aloysius Church in Chicago. soul of our mission. Here are some new folks on in pastoral studies, Kathy Van Duser In addition to his duties as director of the Romero Program, faculty and directing programs: has broad experience in ministry hav- Carlos serves as coordinator of Hispanic Ministry for ing worked as a religious education Vicariate VI. New Faculty coordinator for St. Thomas the Apostle Amanda Quantz Professor of the parish in Hyde Park and formation New at the Centers History of World Christianity A native administrator and consultant for the Mary Charlotte Chandler, RSCJ of San Francisco, Amanda Quantz Catechesis of the Good Shepherd in Oak Park, Illinois. After Director, the Center for the Study of earned a doctorate in the interdiscipli- earning a bachelors degree in business administration from Religious Life A native of nary area of historical theology and the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Kathy taught Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mary visual art from St. Michael’s College high school after college followed by a stint in business. For Charlotte completed studies in database in Toronto. Her master of theology several years she stayed at home to raise her children. When management and a master of divinity degree is from Harvard Divinity she came to CTU in 1996, she embarked on a different path. degree, before entering the Religious of School. Amanda’s research interests As she says, “The people that I met and studies that I took, the Sacred Heart. Her ministry experi- also include Franciscan religious history, the teaching role of turned me into a completely different person and changed ence includes high school and college Christian images, and the relationship between church and the direction of my life. The loving atmosphere and passion teaching; pastoral planning and research society in various periods. A specialist in 13th and 14th for living the Gospel message forced me to examine my at the diocesan level; and social science research for century church history, she studies the unique features of own life and reorder my priorities.” Catholic institutions, including religious congregations. She local churches to discover social trends, structural and doc- earned the doctorate in sociology of religion at the Graduate trinal developments, and other significant changes across Angela Appleby Purcell Director, The Theological Union in Berkeley, and wrote her dissertation space and time. Amanda says despite Chicago’s reputation Peacebuilders Initiative In September on the social identity of women religious in the U.S. for inclement weather, she “loves fall and can’t wait for Angela Appleby Purcell became the winter.” director of the Peacebuilders Initiative Amy Florian Executive Director, high school project, replacing Kathy Stauros Amy Florian, associate editor Rabbi David Sandmel Crown Ryan Professor of Jewish Benson, who resigned to care for her of Stauros Notebook for over three Studies (see article) Rabbi David F. Sandmel, senior rabbi baby, Sean Owen, born this October. years, has assumed the role of execu- of KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation in Hyde Park, is the Angie, who was a campus minister at tive director for Stauros U.S.A. The newly-installed Crown Ryan Professor of Jewish Studies, Mother McAuley High School, mission of Stauros, to help people find sustaining the valued Jewish contribution and presence that Chicago, worked as the design coordi- meaning, peace, and hope in the midst originated with the late Rabbi Hayim Perelmuter, a founding nator and theology consultant during of suffering, fits well with Amy’s exten- faculty member of CTU. Rabbi Sandmel earned a doctorate the formative stages of the Peacebuilders Initiative. Over the sive work as a liturgy and bereavement in religious studies from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and was course of her career Angie has worked in ministry with consultant. In addition to the Notebook, ordained at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of youth and young adults as director of the Appalachia semi- Stauros offers monthly Taize prayer, a Religion in Cincinnati. Deeply involved in Christian-Jewish nar at the University of Notre Dame and campus minister trip to the Holy Land for those with physical disabilities, dialogue, he is co-editor of Christianity in Jewish Terms for Georgetown University and Saint Mary’s College (her as well as missions, workshops, and concerts on topics of (Westview Press, 2000) and lead editor of Irreconcilable undergraduate alma mater). With an M.Div. from Notre suffering and grief.

7 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JANUARY MARCH Wednesday, January 14 Monday-Saturday, March 1-6 Tolton Week Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Prayer Service Monday-Tuesday: Tolton Book Fair, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Lobby 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards Wednesday: Tolton Lecture, 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards Thursday: Tolton Open House, 4-7 p.m., First floor of CTU Friday-Saturday, January 30-31 Saturday: Harambee! An evening of prayer and celebration, Biology of the Spirit Conference 5 p.m., De La Salle Institute (see details this page) Tuesday-Wednesday, March 9-10 Catholic-Muslim Studies Conference, The Courtyards FEBRUARY Monday, February 2 Wednesday, March 31 9th Annual World Mission Lecture, “From Age to Age: Church History Lenten Prayer Service and the Christian Movement,” with Dale T. Irvin, New York 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards Theological Seminary, and Scott W. Sunquist, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards The Biology of Spirit Wednesday, February 11 Chicago Conversations in Faith, “Choosing Peace: Jews, Christians, Spirituality and the Science of Healing and Muslims Preparing Our Children for Life Together,” with featured JANUARY 30-31, 2004 speaker Arne Duncan, CEO, Chicago Public Schools at Catholic Theological Union 7 p.m., Chicago Cultural Center z Healing Bodies, Healing Spirits: Science and Spirituality in Dialogue Wednesday, February 18 Dr. Christina Puchalski, O.C.D.S. assistant professor of medicine, Scherer Lecture George Washington University School of Medicine 3:30 p.m., The Courtyards z Health for Your Flesh and Vigor for Your Bones: Theological Sunday, February 22 Perspectives on the Relationship between Spirituality and Health Rabbi Hayim Perelmuter Catholic-Jewish Conference Dr. James Wiseman, O.S.B. associate professor and former chair of the Opening session held at the University of Notre Dame Department of Theology at the Catholic University of America, and author Theology and Modern Science: Quest for Coherence. Tuesday, February 24 COST: General Public, $25. Students with ID, $10 Perelmuter Conference/Shapiro Lecture After January 15, add $5 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: Ph: 773.753.5313; E-mail: [email protected] Wednesday, February 25 Ash Wednesday Liturgy Sponsored by the Bernardin Center, the John Templeton Foundation, and the American Scientific Association 4:30 p.m., The Courtyards

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PUBLISHER Rev. Donald Senior, C.P.

EDITOR Pattie Wigand Sporrong

WRITER & DESIGNER Stephanie Sinnott

SAVE THE DATE Monday, February 9, 2004 at 7 p.m. Chicago Cultural Center 77 East Randolph Ave.

CHOOSING PEACE: Jews, Christians, & Muslims Preparing Our Children for Life Together

Featured speakers include: ARNE DUNCAN CEO of the Chicago Public Schools

With leaders from Chicago's Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities.

INFORMATION: Call 773-684-1056; E-mail [email protected] Chicago Conversations in Faith is a series of public, interfaith dialogues on issues affecting the lives and beliefs of Jews, Christians,and Muslims in Chicago and beyond.Sponsored by the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union and The Chicago Community Trust.