Class NNootteess The entire community gathered on the front steps after Archbishop William Lori celebrated the opening Mass of the Academic year on August 30th, 2017 News and Information for Alumni of St. Charles College, St. Mary’s Seminary College and St. Mary’s Seminary Fall 2017/Winter 2018 IN THIS ISSUE . See page 4 Faculty News Archbishop Lori and Fr. Brown after the opening Mass. Fr. Phillip J. Brown, P.S.S. joined more than English as “The Gift of the Priestly Vocation”. Fr. Brown will 80 priests, bishops, and lay leaders in Chicago continue to be very involved in meetings and discussions on new at a gathering hosted by the National guidelines for the next revision of the Program of Priestly Association of Catholic Theological Schools Formation (PPF). (NACTS). The purpose of the meeting was to Due to some faculty sabbaticals and leave this year, Fr. Brown consider the implications of the new guidelines assumed the responsibilities of Liturgy Director for the 2017-2018 for seminary formation recently issued by the year and oversaw the orientation program for the incoming sem - Congregation for the Clergy, the Vatican office inarians in August 2017. Fr. Brown is very active in the St. charged with overseeing priests, deacons, and theological educa - Thomas More Society of Maryland as a member of the Board of tion. Fr. Brown and the other participants met with Archbishop Trustees and participated in the annual Red Mass in October. Fr. Jorge Carlos Patrón Wong, secretary for seminaries within the Brown has been traveling this fall for recruitment visits; he visit - Congregation for the Clergy, for an in-depth review of the vision ed Memphis, and travelled to Laredo and Corpus Christi, TX for of Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis , published in seminary recruiting and ongoing canonical consulting for the 2 Class Notes Fall 2017/Winter 2018 diocese of Corpus Christi and the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Rev. Daniel F. Moore. P.S.S., S.T.D. Fr. Brown taught an independent study on Book V of the 1983 Code of Canon Law (the Temporal Father Daniel Moore is a priest of the diocese Goods of the Church), and helped regularly on of Memphis in Tennessee, an alumnus (1984) weekends at Sacred Heart of Mary Church in and avid advocate of St. Mary’s Roland Park. Baltimore, St. Augustine and Ascension church - Fr. Moore recently returned to St. Mary’s es in Elkridge and Arbutus, MD, and occasionally Seminary & University as a member of the at St. Christopher’s Church in Chester, MD on formation & academic faculties having com - the Eastern Shore. pleted six years in provincial administration as Provincial Secretary, Director of Fr. Brian Carpenter has been Discernment & Admissions and Director of accepted as a Temporary Communications for the Society of St. Member of the Society of Saint Sulpice, Province of the United States. He Sulpice. continues to serve in his second term as the First Consultor on the Sulpician Provincial Council, Province of the United States. As a diocesan priest, he completed an STL (licentiate in sacred theology) in dogmatic theology, magna cum laude at the Gregorian University, Rome, in 1990. In the diocese, he was an associate pastor, chair of a high school Dr. Ximena DeBroeck repre - religion department, president-principal of a diocesan high school & mid - sented St. Mary’s Seminary and dle school, a diocesan consultor and later a pastor of a vibrant parish. In University at the 54th the late 1990’s, Fr. Moore discerned more fully a call to the Sulpician min - National Conference of istry of priestly formation. He entered The Society of St. Sulpice in July Diocesan Vocation Directors 2000. He served on the faculty at St. Mary’s Seminary as a Sulpician can - held in New Orleans in didate. In 2002, he was invited by the Sulpicians to resume doctoral studies September 2017. On at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. Fr. Moore successfully September 27 and October 12, defended his dissertation, Jesus, An Emerging Jewish Mosaic: Jewish Dr. DeBroeck gave presentations on the “Mystery Perspectives, Post-Holocaust — magna cum laude , in Rome on February 3, of God” and “Sacramentality”, respectively, for 2006. the Diocese of Greensburg’s Office for Lay Ecclesial Ministry. On October 27-29, she pre - Invited to present an extract of his dissertation in the spring of 2007 during sented conferences on Christian Anthropology to the prestigious Second International Princeton-Prague Symposium on the men in formation for the Permanent Jesus Research, at Princeton Theological Seminary, Fr. Moore’s thesis was Diaconate for the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. subsequently published by T & T Clark International as the second vol - On November 20, she gave a presentation on a ume of their series, Jewish and Christian Texts In Context and Related Studies . “Biblical Theology of Silence” at the Fall Along with this volume, Fr. Moore’s symposium presentation was included Convocation of the clergy of the Archdiocese of in the international symposium publication, “Jesus Research, New Louisville. Additionally, on November 30, Dr. Methodologies and Perceptions,” edited by James Charlesworth, Prince DeBroeck led a retreat for the staff of St. Isaac Theological Seminary, 2014. Joques parish; the theme for the retreat was Fr. Moore returns to St. Mary’s faculty having just completed an earned “Discovering and Sharing Peace in the Midst of sabbatical where he was a visiting fellow in the school of theology & reli - the Storm.” gious studies at The Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium and the school of theology & ministry at Boston College, Chestnut Hill Campus, respectively. Father Dan is delighted to rejoin the unique and historic mission of his seminary alma mater . Fall 2017/Winter 2018 3 Class Notes This fall, Dr. Michael Gorman was a presenter Dr. Paul Seaton led a two-day seminar on at the North Park Symposium on the “Liberty, Responsibility, and the Nation- Theological Interpretation of Scripture, where State” for the Liberty Fund earlier this year. he delivered a paper entitled “Cruciform or He also published two translations, On Resurrectiform? Paul's Paradoxical Practice of Religion by Benjamin Constant and On the Participation.” He also gave presentations to Legitimacy of the Human by Rémi Brague in pastors’ conferences at Rochester College 2017. Dr. Seaton wrote ten blog essays for (Michigan), where he spoke on both Paul and www.libertylawsite.org over the summer, and John, and at Gordon College (Massachusetts), where he spoke the Editor’s Introduction to a festschrift in honor of Peter about the Gospel of John. At Gordon, he also gave a student con - Augustine Lawler, Perspectives on Political Science , Volume 47, vocation lecture on Protestant-Catholic relations. In addition, No.1. he chaired a session on participation in Pauline theology at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Boston, In October Dr. Bill Scalia attended the 2017 where he also presented a paper on justification and theosis in International Festival of Authors conference Paul’s theology for a session on Eastern Orthodox hermeneutics. on social justice in Toronto, where he present - Dr. Gorman’s most recent publications include two pieces in ed his paper “Kierkegaard on the Mississippi: books of collected essays: “Reading Galatians 2:15-21 Huck Finn’s Crisis of Conscience.” Theologically: Beyond Old and New, Beyond West and East,” in Participation, Justification and Conversion: Eastern Orthodox Interpretation of Paul and the Debate between Old and New Perspectives on Paul , edited by Athanasios Despotis (Mohr Siebeck, 2017); and “John’s Implicit Ethic of Enemy-Love,” in Johannine Ethics , edited by former E.I. and S.O.T. adjunct profes - sor Christopher W. Skinner and Sherri Brown (Fortress, 2017). Fr. Edward J. Griswold delivered the Fall 2017 Marten Lecture in Preaching at the University of Notre Dame on October 23rd. The title of his presentation was, "Pre- Conciliar Preaching in the USA." The pres - IN THIS ISSUE entation was primarily the result of his current Faculty News . 2 research project, "American Catholic Preaching: Fifty Years before and Fifty Years Heritage Society . 5 after Vatican II." The first of the preachers he considered was St. Mary's famous alumnus, James Cardinal Gibbons. Interestingly, Continuing Formation Programs . 6 Cardinal Gibbons dedicated a collection of his sermons (1908) with this inscription, "To the Professors of Saint Mary's Seminary Alumni Days . 8 Baltimore, whose daily lectures for over a century have been mir - Community Highlights . 10 rored and illumined by their Evangelical lives." Alumni News . 12 Dr. Brent Laytham presided over a session on St. Charles College & Theological Interpretation of Scripture at the Society of Biblical Literature in November, St. Mary’s Seminary and attended the Christmas Conference of the College . 10 John Wesley Fellows in December. St. Mary’s Seminary . 12 In Memoriam . 18 Addison George Wright, P.S.S. 24 4 Class Notes Fall 2017/Winter 2018 THE HERITAGE SOCIETY St. Mary’s Seminary & University established the Heritage Society in 1990 to honor alumni and friends who value our past and are committed to our present and future. By including St. Mary’s in their gift and estate plans, this special group will enable the Seminary to continue the strong tradition of academic and theological excellence which began in 1791. Please consider joining the alumni members of the Heritage Society: Anonymous (9) Rev. Kevin J. Forsyth Mr. and Mrs. M. Kevin Lynch Rev. Thomas A. Scala Rev. Msgr. Lloyd E. Aiken Rev. Stephen J. Gleeson Mr. E. Sherwood MacDonald Dr. James R. Schaefer Rev. Frank D. Almade Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Guiffre Mr. Richard E. Mandeville Rev. Laurence Schlegel, O.S.B. Mr. John F. Andrulewicz Rev.