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Spring/Summer 2018 Class NNootteess IN THIS ISSUE . See page 5 Faculty News School of Theology Faculty, Graduation 2018 Fr. Phillip J. Brown, P.S.S. traveled to Rome Fr. Brown was invited to offer the benediction prayer at the to meet with Archbishop Patròn Wong of the Investiture ceremony for the Hon. Ralph Erickson to the United Congregation for Clergy in January to discuss States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals at the invitation of Justice the new Ratio Fundamentalis , and in particular, Erickson. As an active member of the St. Thomas More Society, St. Mary’s plans for a propaedeutic experience Fr. Brown invited the organization to have their spring lecture at program, and was again in Rome in May for a St. Mary’s in May. two-day conference for university and seminary Fr. Brown concluded the very busy academic year with his annual presidents and rectors and other administrators retreat at Conception Abbey in Conception, Missouri and sponsored by the Congregation for Catholic Education on the attended the Sulpician Convocation in Texas at the end of May. new papal document establishing guidelines for pontifical and ecclesiastical universities and seminary programs. He also attended the 5th Anniversary Celebration of the Election of Pope Francis at the Apostolic Nunciature, in Washington, DC. 2 Class Notes Spring/Summer 2018 Fr. Thomas J. Burke, O.SS.T., (SMSC’74 and SMS’78), cele - Welcome New Faculty brated his 40th Anniversary of Priestly Ordination on May 20, 2018. A priest of the Order of Rev. Paul Maillet, P.S.S. is a 1980 graduate of the the Most Holy Trinity Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY and (Trinitarians), he was ordained holds a Master of Music from the Peabody at St. Matthew’s Church, Institute of Johns Hopkins University (1982). Fr. Baltimore City, along with three fellow Maillet graduated from Mount St. Mary’s Trinitarian confreres, by Bishop P. Francis Seminary in 2001 and was ordained as Priest of Murphy, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, on May the Archdiocese of Baltimore on May 26, 2001. 20, 1978. He currently serves on the academic Fr. Maillet continued his studies after ordination and formation faculty at St. Mary’s as an and completed an STL in 2008 and an STD in Associate Professor of Systematic Theology as Biblical Studies in 2010 from The Catholic well as a Faculty Mentor and Spiritual Director. University of America. His dissertation was The Servant Songs of Isaiah in He also serves as Dean of the School of Theology the MT and LXX: A Comparison of their Portrayal of God . Fr. Maillet joined and Praeses of the Ecclesiastical Faculty of the Society of St. Sulpice in 2005 and most recently taught at St. Patrick’s Theology at St. Mary’s. Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Fr. Brian Carpenter, P.S.S. Rev. Gladstone Stevens, P.S.S. is a 1980 graduate will be leaving St. Mary’s to of Quincy College and holds a Ph.D. in continue studies at the Systematic Theology from Marquette University University of St. Mary of the (1997). Fr. Stevens attended St. Meinrad’s Lake in Mundelein. School of Theology and was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Louisville on June 3, 2000. Fr. Stevens dissertation was Towards Dr. Ximena DeBroeck pre - a Theological Assessment of the Third Quest for the sented the second and final Historical Jesus . Fr. Stevens joined the Society of conference on Christian St. Sulpice in 2004 and has had extensive teach - Anthropology to the men in ing and administrative experience. He was on the faculty of St. Mary’s formation for the Permanent from 2002-2008 during which he served variously as Vice Rector, Dean of Diaconate for the Diocese of Students and Assistant Academic Dean. He taught at St. Patrick’s Altoona-Johnstown during Seminary in Menlo Park from 2008-2017 serving as Academic Dean from their winter academic session. 2008-2013, Vice Rector from 2009-2014, and President Rector from 2014- In February 2018, Dr. 2017. DeBroeck was a presenter for the Mid-Atlantic Congress, where she gave an intensive workshop to Hispanic ministers on the Rite of Christian Fr. Shawn Gould is a Sulpician Candidate from the Archdiocese of Initiation of Adults. During the spring semester, Chicago. He is a 1998 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds she was a guest lecturer for the Ecumenical a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Fr. Institute Colloquium on Sacrifice. Dr. DeBroeck Gould received his M.Div. from the University of St. Mary of the Lake and taught a summer course at the Ecumenical was ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago in May 2010. Fr. Gould Institute on the Theology of Vatican II. received his STL with an emphasis in Christology from University of St. Additionally, this summer, she presented a paper Mary of the Lake in 2014. His thesis was Known by the Lord: An Argument at the St. Andrews Symposium for Biblical and for Christ’s Comprehensive Knowledge. Fr. Gould has extensive parish expe - Early Christian Studies, Atonement: Sin, rience, most recently serving as the Pastor of St. Bede Parish in the Sacrifice, and Salvation in Jewish and Christian Archdiocese of Chicago. Antiquity, St. Andrews, Scotland. The topic of her paper was: “Sacrificial Life, Sacrificial Death: Spring/Summer 2018 3 Class Notes Expressions of Covenantal Love.” Dr. DeBroeck gave the fol - Hurst directed a Retreat for Priest-Alumni, “Insights for Priestly lowing presentation at the July 2018 Applied Biblical Studies Life and Ministry from St. Paul’s Letters.” conference in Steubenville, Ohio: “From Exile to New Life: What the Post-Exilic Prophets Teach Us.” Her article, Dr. Brent Laytham published an article, “‘But “Becoming Sacrifice: Redemption, Justification, Reconciliation, If … by the Spirit of God’: Reading Matthew’s and Participation in the Letter to the Romans” will be published Lord’s Prayer as Spirit Christology,” Journal of in the next volume of the journal Letter and Spirit. Theological Interpretation 12.1 (2018):24-38. Fr. Scott Detisch is returning to his diocese of Erie, PA to assist Bishop Persico at the Bishop’s request. Fr. Robert F. Leavitt, P.S.S., former President-Rector and currently the France- Merrick Professor at St. Mary's, celebrated his 50th anniversary of ordination to the priest - hood in May. Earl and Darielle Linehan host - On April 30, 2018, Msgr. David I. Fulton ed a buffet cocktail reception with seminary delivered an address on the theology of man - trustees, alumni, friends, and students of Fr. agement at the Leadership Roundtable’s Leavitt at their home in Towson, MD on May Toolbox on Pastoral Management, held at 9. Father Michel Tchoumbou, alumnus of 2004, traveled from Seton Hall University. Cameroon for the occasion. Michael Batza was master of cere - monies. Vocalist Jennifer Miller, pianist Matthew Palumbo, and seminarian saxophonist James O'Reilly (Richmond), provided entertainment. The celebration was given by Former Trustees Dr. Michael Gorman gave two talks during Earl Linehan, Mike Batza, Clinton Daly, Rick Berndt, and Lent at historic St. Anne’s Episcopal Church Truman Semans. At 11 a.m. on Pentecost Sunday, May 20, Fr. in Annapolis. In April, he gave the fifth annu - Leavitt celebrated his golden jubilee liturgy with family, parish - al New Testament lectures at Trinity ioners, and friends at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hunt Valley, Evangelical Divinity School, near Chicago, on MD, where he has celebrated weekly Eucharist since 2014. participation, justification, and transformation Pastor and alumnus, Fr. Frank Brauer, (SMS’85), offered his trib - according to St. Paul. In May, two essays utes to Fr. Leavitt at the conclusion of the Mass. Following the by Dr. Gorman appeared: “Cruciform or liturgy, the parish held a festive reception at the church. The St. Resurrectiform? Paul's Paradoxical Practice of Participation” in Mary's Seminary Class of 1968 will celebrate their golden jubilee the journal Ex Auditu ; and “The Spirit, the Prophets, and the End of ordination together on Alumni Day at Roland Park in of the ‘Johannine Jesus,’” in the Journal of Theological October. Interpretation . His book Abide and Go: Missional Theosis in the On May 22nd Fr. Leavitt addressed the priests and the recently- Gospel of John (Cascade) was scheduled for publication in June. appointed Bishop of Nashville in Tennessee, Most Rev. Mark Spaulding, on the topic of the New Evangelization in a Secular Emily Hicks graduated with her Master's Age. The invitation was extended by Father Ed Steiner, alumnus Degree in Theology from St. Mary's of Theological College. St. Mary's alumnus, Msgr. Owen Ecumenical Institute on May 17, and received Campion, (SMS’66), was in attendance. The Robert F. Leavitt Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theological Studies. In October, Dr. Bill Scalia presented his paper “Naught Beyond: A Phenomenology of February 2, Fr. Thomas R. Hurst, P.S.S., pre - Ahab’s ‘Madness Maddened’ in Moby-Dick” sented an Evening of Recollection at at the 2018 Northeast Modern Language Theological College, “The Gospel Call in the Association Conference in Pittsburgh. Gospel of St. Luke.” On May 29, at the Sulpician Convocation in San Antonio, he presented “The External Forum Role in Priestly Formation.” And from June 24-28, Fr. 4 Class Notes Spring/Summer 2018 Dr. Paul Seaton published three translations: The Kingdom of Man: On the Genesis and Failure of the Modern Project, On Religion and On the Legitimacy of the Human . He also pub - Class Notes lished a Review Essay of Thomas Hibbs for The Review of Politics, Special Issue Honoring Catherine Zuckert as well as Charlemagne’s News and Information for Alumni European Project – and Rémi Brague’s for of St.