April
2005 - June 2005
[Woodstock Report, June
2005, No. 82]
John Farina addressed a delegation of
Dutch journalists at Georgetown University on the topic of religious pluralism
in the United States. He was a contributor for stories on the death of
the Holy Father to U.S. News & World Report, the Christian
Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. He presented a lecture
on Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the Washington Choral Society's concert
on May 15 at the Washington National Cathedral.
John Haughey, S.J., was an invited participant
to the Rumi Interfaith Forum at Georgetown University on April 12 and
May 10. On April 16, he gave a talk entitled "The Poverty of the Risen
Christ and the People of God's Ignorance of its Priesthood" to the Order
of Malta at the Washington Theological Union. In early April, he spoke
to the parishioners at St. Mark's in Arlington, Virginia, on "Why Confirmation?"
At Loyola University, Chicago, he gave presentations at two consultations:
one on the "Vocation Project" and another on its proposed "Center for
Catholic Intellectual Tradition." On May 2, he made a presentation to
the Woodstock fellows on "The Dignity of Research" at Missionhurst Mission
Center, in Arlington, Virginia. In early June he made three presentations
at Seton Hall's Core Curriculum Conference on The Teleology of Learning.
"The Charism of Bernard Lonergan" was the title of his presentation given
at the Annual Lonergan Workshop at Boston College on June 19. Father Haughey's
main focus of attention has been the completion of a manuscript on "Emergent
Catholicity" for his Higher Education project.
Father Raymond Kemp moderated a Woodstock
Forum at the Washington Jesuit Academy on the topic of "Educating D.C.'s
Children: Perspectives from the Field." He directed Preaching the Just
Word retreats for the Archdiocese of Louisville in Nazareth, Kentucky,
and for a Province of Capuchin Friars in Cleveland, Ohio. He spoke at
the El Paso Eucharistic Congress on "Eucharist and Justice," and, with
Mary Ellen O'Driscoll of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development,
conducted the priests' convocation for the Diocese of Las Cruces, New
Mexico. He was presented the Honorary Peacemaker Award from the Justice
and Peace program at Georgetown for his work with the Living Wage Coalition.
Dolores R. Leckey attended a Board Meeting
of the Center for the Study of Religious Life in Chicago in mid- April.
She is the lay member of that Board. Also in mid- April, she delivered
the keynote address for the Joliet Diocese's bi-annual assembly. Her subject
was "The Laity as Seen through the Lens of the Second Vatican Council."
She also hosted a luncheon meeting at Woodstock (under the aegis of the
Washington Theological Consortium) for faculty from various theological
institutions who have responsibility for developing leadership programs.
The purpose of the meeting was to explore avenues of possible collaboration.
The group plans to meet again in the fall. At the end of April, Dolores
co-led a retreat/workshop with Sr. Catherine Patten, RSCM, coordinator
of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. The event took place in White
Plains, New York. Dolores' topic was "Lay Leadership from the Council
to the Present." She also led a reflection session that day on the essentials
of spiritual formation. During May and early June she worked on the final
editing of the book about Catholic Traditions of Peace and War, a joint
project of Woodstock and the Jesuit Conference. The new (and hopefully
final) title is Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions
Can Teach Us. It will be published
by Orbis Books next spring. Finally, Dolores attended the June meeting
of the Catholic Theological Society of America in St. Louis.
December 2004 -
March 2005
[Woodstock Report, March
2005, No. 81]
John Farina delivered
a paper to the Catholic Studies Program Faculty Symposium at Georgetown
University on "Catholicism and Current Civil Society Debate." He convened
a meeting of the Law and Policy Component Seminar of the Catholicism and
Civic Renewal Project, held at the Center. He began work on the Arts and
Spirituality Program, in cooperation with the Washington Theological Consortium,
planning events with the Washington Shakespeare Theatre, the National
Gallery of Art, and the Post-Classical Ensemble for next season. The program
will offer to Washington arts patrons enrichment programs on spirituality
and the arts, drawing on the faculty resources of Consortium institutions,
representing Protestant, Catholic, and Muslim traditions.
Rev. John C. Haughey,
S.J., was a consultant for a national dialogue on "A Contemporary
Model for Catholic Service Providing Organizations" at Santa Clara University
in conjunction with Ascension Health Care Corporation in December. In
January he addressed the business school faculty of Seton Hall University,
South Orange, New Jersey, on "Relating the Idea of Calling to the Business
Career either as Educator or Practitioner." In February he directed a
retreat on the humanity of Jesus at the Washington Retreat House to the
"Community of His Kingdom," a group that has met in Bethesda, Maryland,
Catholic churches for the last 30 years. He gave a lecture on March 9
at the adult faith development series at St. Mark's Catholic Church in
Alexandria, Virginia, on "The Social Implications of Eucharist. In mid-March
he traveled to Rome and gave a lecture at the Vatican for the international
conference commemorating "The Legacy of Gaudium et Spes - 40 Years Later;"
his topic was "The Unfinished Agenda on Human Rights." Finally, on March
30 he delivered the annual Carr Lecture at the convocation of Mt. Union
College, a Methodist-affiliated university in Alliance, Ohio, on the topic
of "Revisiting the Mission through the Parables." His primary work this
semester has been finishing a manuscript on a reconception of the mission
of Catholic colleges and universities.
Leon Hooper, S.J.,
was in Mainz, Germany, in late February to give a paper entitled "Murray
on Loving One's Enemies," one of eight presentations, for a conference
entitled "Faith after Modernity: German American Intellectual Discourse."
The conference moves from Karl Rahner, Bernard Lonergan, and John Courtney
Murray at their 100th birthdays to the new shape of theological discourse.
He then went to Berlin for a single address on Murray and religious freedom.
Raymond B. Kemp began
his tenth year teaching "Struggle and Transcendence" to forty-five undergraduate
students at Georgetown University. He responded to columnist E.J. Dionne
in an event sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington and the Washington
Theological Union. He spoke on various themes related to biblical justice
at Fort Belvoir, Tabor House in Northern Virginia, a Retreat Day for St.
Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., a Day of Recollection for priests
of Detroit, a Preaching the Just Word Convocation for the clergy of Las
Cruces, New Mexico diocese, and the Eucharistic Congress in El Paso, Texas.
Dolores R. Leckey attended
a Catholic Writers' retreat/workshop in Arizona at the end of January.
In early February she was the featured speaker at the Carmelite Forum
of New Jersey whose theme this year is "Catholic Voices in our Democracy."
Dolores' focus was on authentic leadership and intellectual conversion.
At the end of February she was the keynote speaker at a conference for
women in Indiana. One speech was "Signs of Grace in Troubled Times" and
the other was based on her Seven Essentials for the Spiritual
Journey. In early March she was an invited participant in the Ninth
Cardinal Bernardin Conference on "Religion, Law and Politics" sponsored
by the Catholic Common Ground Initiative. Later in that month she attended
a conference at Fordham's Center on Religion and Culture on "The Ethics
of Exit" (a reference to the situation in Iraq). She has continued organizational
work on the book about Catholic Traditions of Peace and War now tentatively
titled God's Way: Waging War or Building Peace? The book is about
90 percent finished and is a joint project of Woodstock and the Jesuit
Conference. Between now and June she will be concentrating on completing
a book on the Decree on the Laity in the Paulist Press series Rediscovering
Vatican II.
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