Walter J. Burghardt, S.J., gave three talks on contemplation within
the Institute for Priests at Seton Hall University, New Jersey; lectured on
Evangelization: A Call to Justice in a series sponsored by the Daughters of St.
Paul in Alexandria, Virginia; gave the keynote address on A Spirituality of
Social Justice at a Social Justice Day in the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon;
lectured on Love of Law/Law of Love in a series celebrating the 125th
anniversary of the Georgetown University Law Center; delivered two lectures on
Evangelization and The Cry of the Poor at the Diocesan Assembly of Gaylord,
Michigan. He also spoke on Preaching the Just Word: A Biblical Approach to the
presbyteral council of the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, and gave a
public lecture there on Social-Justice Spirituality; and spoke on Evangelization
at a convocation of lay leaders and deacons in the Diocese of San Bernardino,
California. With Father Raymond B. Kemp he directed five-day Preaching the Just
Word retreat/workshops in the Archdioceses of St. Paul/ Minneapolis, Los
Angeles, and Kingston, Jamaica, and in the Dioceses of Buffalo, New York,
Gaylord, Michigan, Madison, Wisconsin, and San Bernardino, California.
Richard M. Liddy lectured on Lonergan's Debt to Augustine at the
Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies Conference at Villanova University
in September. He contributed a paper on Susanne K. Langer's Philosophy of Mind
to an upcoming symposium in the Transactions of the Pierce Society. He
contributed a paper, 'Formation:' Developing Habits of the Mind and Heart, to
the Seminary News of the National Catholic Education Association. He is
presently working on a book on Bernard Lonergan. In addition, he is working on
the Ignatian-Lonergan methodology of a projected Woodstock program on church
leadership.
Gasper F. Lo Biondo, S.J., presented a paper at the annual meeting of
the Latin American Jesuit Philosophical Group held in the Dominican Republic.
The theme was ethics and economics. In September, at the invitation of the
Jesuit director of FAPRODE (a fund for social assistance and development), he
participated in a seminar on Debt, Development, and the Rule of Law in Mexico
City. At the Latin American Studies Association meeting held in Washington,
D.C., he participated on a panel about The Catholic Church and Indigenous
Peoples, and he organized and chaired another panel on Selected Educational
Issues in Microenterprise Development.
James L. Nolan directs the Woodstock Business
Conference, a national network of business leaders who affirm the relevance
of religious faith to business practice. He made presentations of the WBC and
its process of theological reflection in the Ignatian tradition to St. Peter's
parish in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Law School faculty of The Catholic
University of America, and with James L. Connor, S.J., to the leadership of
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rockville Center, New York. His interview
about the WBC was published in the September-October 1995 edition of Overheard,
the audio magazine produced by ITP-Paulist Communications.
R. Randall Rainey, S.J., formally introduced his Woodstock program,
Public Discourse and the Common Good, at a dinner held on December 6. A day-long
conference on Welfare Reform, Federalism, and the Common Good was held the next
day. In October he gave a retreat to the Young Adult Community of Holy Trinity
Parish and in November he delivered a keynote address in Mobile, Alabama,
entitled The Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death: Reflections Upon the
American Experience at the annual fund-raising banquet for the Mobile Emergency
Pregnancy Services organization which aids unwed mothers.
Thomas J. Reese, S.J., is finishing a book, titled The Vatican:
Organization and Politics in the Catholic Church, to be published next fall
by Harvard University Press. During the papal visit to the United States in
October, he provided background material and commentary for numerous members of
the media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles
Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Time, Associated Press,
ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. In November he covered the meeting of the National
Conference of Catholic Bishops for America magazine. The November issue of Worship
contains his article, "A Eucharistic
Millennial Jubilee."
J. Michael Stebbins continues work on the Arrupe Program's business
ethics curriculum, which is designed to provide executives with a framework for
understanding what business, society, ethical values, and Christian faith have
to do with one another. In September he presented a paper entitled "Toward
a Developmental Understanding of the Common Good" at a conference held at
the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, to commemorate the 50th
anniversary of the death of Monsignor John A. Ryan. The paper, which will be
published in the proceedings of the conference, includes a number of
observations concerning the role of business in promoting the common good.
September-December 1995
[Woodstock Report, December 1995, no. 44]
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