John C. Haughey, S.J., presented a week of conferences in July
for the annual gathering of a community of
laity at the Mt. Angel Benedictine
Seminary in St. Benedict, Oregon. In
September, he gave a paper on the Turkish
Muslim Beiuzzaman Said Nursi at an
international gathering of Jesuits at Mar
Musa Monastery in Syria. In October, he
prepared a paper, which was delivered in
absentia, "Do We Know What to Do with
Evil in the Workplace?" for the 6th Annual Symposium on
Catholic Thought at the Angelicum in Rome; conducted a
workshop for faculty at Loyola University Chicago, entitled
"The Good Under Construction"; presented "Hope in the
Syrian Desert" at the annual dinner of the Peter Favre Forum at
St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee,Wisconsin; and conducted
a workshop for faculty at Georgetown University and Loyola
College in Baltimore on "Mission from Below/Mission from
Above." In November, Father Haughey gave a response to the
presentation of Robert Doran, S.J., "What is Systematic
Theology?" at the inauguration of the Lonergan Center at Seton
Hall University and held a conversation with the presidents of
the Maryland Province colleges and universities on the
challenge of catholicity in these institutions. Raymond B. Kemp led a "Preaching the Just Word" retreat
with Sister Nancy Sheridan, SASV, Father
John Donahue, S.J., and Father Fred
Kammer, S.J., for the New Orleans
Province in Grand Coteau, Louisianna, in
June. He spoke to the New York State
deacons convocation with Father Drew
Christiansen, S.J., at Mt. St. Mary's in
Newburgh, New York, in July on a similar
theme, and, with Larry Boadt, C.S.P., and
John Carr, addressed the Syracuse Clergy Convocation that
drew 185 deacons, priests, and a bishop in September. Father
Kemp keynoted the International Catholic Stewardship
Council's conference in Boston along with a former Hoya
student, Marques Simpson of the Boston Nativity School, on
the topic of "Stewardship: A Disciple's Response." Father
Kemp is also teaching "The Church and the Poor" course to 45
undergraduates at Georgetown this semester. Dolores Leckey attended the Chautauqua Institution for a
week in July. The theme for that
particular week was "Landscape
Architecture and Community
Development." In addition to personally
benefiting from the mixture of politics,
religion, culture and beauty which
characterizes Chautauqua, Leckey gained
some insight for Woodstock's new
project Theology in the City: namely,
that authentic renewal must incorporate tradition and history.
She also spent a week at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore,
listening to and learning about Mozart in this, the 250th
anniversary of his birth. A useful methodology for
developing lectures and presentations emerged from this
aesthetic experience. Specifically: organize the lecture or
presentation in the form of a sonata with three parts. First,
state the major theme. Second, arrange variations on the
theme. And third, come back home to the major theme.
Leckey is considering this form of "sonata-lecture" for a
presentation in January. Her book on the laity and Christian
education is scheduled for release in November by Paulist
Press and she contributed a chapter to a new book on
discovering God in natural disasters. Finally, she has been
promoting the book she edited, Just War, Lasting Peace:
What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us, through a
Woodstock Forum, a lecture at the Arlington Public Library,
and a series of discussions at Our Lady Queen of Peace
Church in Arlington, Virginia. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., who arrived at the end of July, hit the
ground running with numerous media
interviews and talks. He was contacted
by the press about Pope Benedict and
Islam, Archbishop Emanuel Milingo's
ordination of new bishops and even a
$8.6 million theft from a parish in Palm
Beach, Florida. He has given lectures at a
Voice of the Faithful meeting in
Washington, D.C., and a conference on
religion and politics sponsored by the Leonard Greenburg
Center at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. In
October, Father Reese also spoke about Benedict XVI to
journalism students and the public at Syracuse University. Philip J. Rosato, S.J., arrived at Woodstock in July. His
activities during the summer included
preaching retreats to seminarians of the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia on "The
Prophetic Acts of Jesus and the
Sacraments of the Church" and to priests
of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey,
on "The Responsibility of Christians to
Judge with Christ at the End of Time." In
September, Father Rosato traveled to
Boston College to attend the autumnal meeting of the
editorial staff of Studies in the Spirituality of the Jesuits, a
quarterly journal dedicated to contemporary reflection on the
charism of St. Ignatius of Loyola. In October, he gave a
lecture on "The Second Part of the Encyclical God is Love of
Benedict XVI" to the Study Group at Blessed Sacrament
Church in Washington, D.C. William Bole, fellow and
Woodstock Report editor, gave the
opening presentation at an afternoon
of conversation titled "Forgiveness
and Revenge, in Politics and
Business," held May 10 in the
Woodstock Library. Other speakers
included Woodstock fellow Robert
Hennemeyer, who co-authored (with
Bole and Drew Christiansen, S.J.) Forgiveness in
International Politics: An Alternative Road to Peace; and
Robert Bies, a Georgetown business professor who
addressed the topic of forgiveness in the corporate world. (A
text of Bole's remarks, plus a Catholic News Service report on the event, is available online.)
Among other editorial projects, Bole is working with Bob
Abernethy on a book based on the public television series
Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, which Abernethy anchors.
Three of Bole's articles about issues facing the Catholic
Church have appeared this year in Boston College Magazine. John C. Haughey, S.J., published
an essay, "The Scribe Instructed in
the Kingdom of Heaven," in a book
entitled I Have Called You Friends (Cowley Publications, Cambridge
MA, 2006). He gave several
addresses and speeches, including an
April 4 address to faculties of the
Washington Theological Union and
the Dominican House of Studies on the virtue of catholicity;
a May 5 address to the Cascade County Lawyers of Great
Falls, Montana, on the calling of law, and a faculty address
at Great Falls University on the subject of a catholic
intellectual tradition; a commencement address at Great Falls
University on May 6 on virtual reality and the virtue of
solidarity; a May 15 workshop on vocation and mission at
Santa Clara University as well as one on catholicity to the
faculty at an Ignatian Institute; a May 22-24 workshop for
faculty at Seton Hall University on mission from below and
mission from above; and a June 21 address at the Lonergan
Workshop on the Spirit's role in the virtue of catholicity.
From May 30 to June 2, Father Haughey participated in a
theological consultation with the Presiding Bishop of the
Episcopal Church USA in Boston, Massachusetts. Raymond B. Kemp spoke to the "Faithful Citizenship" gathering in
the Archdiocese of Omaha; preached
a Holy Hour for Peace at St. Jane de
Chantal Parish in Bethesda,
Maryland; facilitated a student panel
on the meaning of Catholic faith at
Our Lady, Queen of Peace in Arlington, Virginia; spoke on
the Luminous Mysteries at St. Matthew's Cathedral during
Lent; and judged an inter-faith essay contest for the Fund of
the Future of Our Children at Georgetown University, all in
the month of March. In April, Fr. Kemp gave a speech
entitled "Leadership in the Black Community," sponsored by
the Georgetown University Black House; participated and
preached at a Lenten Day of Recollection for the Knights of
Malta on the "Just Word;" led a day of reflection on racial
and cultural sensitivity for the faculty of Seton High School
in Bladensburg, Maryland; spoke on the "Just Word" for the
Aggiornamento Series at Graymoor in Garrison, New York;
celebrated the final student liturgy for the year in Kirby Hall
at Trinity University; and concluded his semester of teaching
"The Church and the Poor" for 45 undergraduates at
Georgetown. In May, Fr. Kemp focused on his research at
Woodstock, officiated at three local weddings, and gave first
communion to ten children in the DC metro area. In June,
he led a Preaching the Just Word retreat for the Southern
Province of Jesuits with John Donahue, S.J., Fred Kammer,
S.J., and Nancy Sheridan, S.A.S.V., at Grand Coteau,
Louisiana, taking some time afterwards to visit New Orleans. Dolores Leckey wrote several
articles, one for Catholic News
Service on "The Fathers of the
Church Speak Today." She also
wrote an article for America titled
"What I'm Learning From Benedict
XVI - So Far." The book Just War,
Lasting Peace: What Christian
Traditions Can Teach Us is now
officially published. The Jesuit provincials received a copy
in May, and Dolores, with the help of Beth Kostelac and Bill
Bole of Woodstock and John Kleiderer of the Jesuit
Conference is busy promoting the book. Planning is
underway now for an October 4 forum based on the book.
The forum, "Just War, Lasting Peace: What Does This
Mean?" will feature several of the book's contributors and
participants in the original one-day symposium that was the
basis for the book. Dolores is scheduled to be the
moderator. In May, Dolores participated in a "pilgrimage"
sponsored by the Washington Theological Union to Turkey
and Greece: "In the Footsteps of Paul and John." Earlier in
the month, with Fr. Ray Kemp, she co-led a session of
Theology in the City, a new Woodstock project. And in June
she was a speaker at Holy Trinity's adult education series.
Her topic was her book on laity and Christian education
which will be published by Paulist Press at the end of the
year. She has been asked to contribute a chapter to a new
book now being developed by Paulist Press on the discovery
of God in natural disasters. William Bole gave a talk on January 9 titled "Blessed are the
Peacemakers: Forgiveness in Politics as a Road to Peace" as part of the
Year of Prayer lecture series sponsored by the Maryland Province of the
Society of Jesus and held at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, Maryland.
Bole drew from Woodstock's 2004 book, Forgiveness in International
Politics: An Alternative Road to Peace, which he co-authored with
Woodstock fellows Robert Hennemeyer and Drew Christiansen, S.J. He has
contributed a chapter to the forthcoming book, Just War, Lasting Peace,
edited by Woodstock senior fellow Dolores Leckey, and he is currently
working with the Department of Social Development and World Peace of the
U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops on a book about Catholic social teaching
and the environment. He is also spearheading a forum called "State of
Mind: The Intellectual Life of American Catholics" to be held April 30
at Boston College. John Farina has been appointed associate professor of religious
studies with tenure at George Mason University. He is part of a new religious
studies program where he will develop a program in religion and international
affairs. Farina remains at Woodstock as a non-resident fellow to complete
the Catholicism and Civic Renewal program. For the next year, he will
be conducting seminars among theologians, lawyers, and historians that
will culminate in a public conference next fall and in a publication.
Rev. John C. Haughey, S.J., published many articles and essays,
including "A Catechesis of Abundance" in Rediscovering Abundance;
"Pleonexia and Compassion" in Harvest Time; "The Wider Ecumenism
in the Pneumatology of Bernard Lonergan" in The Holy Spirit, The Church,
and Christian Unity: Proceedings of the Consultation Held at the Monastery
of Bose, Italy; and "The Movement from Ecumenism to Catholicity" in
Christian Ecumenism: 40 Years After 'Unitatis Redintegrato.' In
addition, Father Haughey also published "The Primacy of Receivement" in
Business as a Calling as an e-book which can be accessed at
www.stthomas.edu/cathstudies/publications/businessasacalling. Father
Haughey gave several addresses at universities across the world, including
"Where is Knowing Going?" at St. Augustine University in Johannesburg,
South Africa; "Revisiting Ecumenism in Light of Deeper Unities" and "Does
the Eucharist Have to Be Exclusionary?" at the University of KwaZulu-Natal
in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; "Revisiting the Idea of a Catholic
Intellectual Tradition" at the Graduate Center of Loyola College in Timonium,
Maryland; "Monika Hellwig and the Education of a Whole Person" at Loyola
University, Chicago; and a lecture on "Contemplative Practices in the
Classroom" at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. He addressed
a workshop of the American Association of Colleges and Universities in
Washington, D.C., as well as a gathering of 14 presidents of Jesuit colleges
and universities. He also conducted workshops on the topic of "Mission
from Below," including three-day workshops for the vice-presidents for
Mission and Identity at Jesuit colleges and universities at St. Peter's
College in Jersey City, New Jersey, as well as for Georgetown University
faculty here in D.C. and Loyola University faculty at Loyola's campus
in Chicago, Illinois. Raymond B. Kemp taught two undergraduate classes at Georgetown
University to groups of over forty students. The fall course was entitled
"The Church and the Poor" and "Struggle and Transcendence" was the title
of his spring course. In September, he gave a talk entitled "The Priesthood
in Difficult Times" to the priests convention of the Archdiocese of Detroit.
In October, Father Kemp traveled to California, leading another priests
retreat, this time for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, alongside Sister
Nancy Sheridan, and assisting the priests convocation for the Diocese
of Sacramento with Father Larry Boadt, CSP, and Mr. Rich Fowler. In December,
he spoke with Catholic elementary school teachers at Holy Ghost Preparatory
School in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, and was part of the team of the Executive
Masters in Leadership Closing Residency in Wye River, Maryland. In January
he helped launch the second year of the Executive Masters in Leadership
Program for the McDonough School of Business at the Bolger Center in Potomac,
Maryland, and in February, working once again with Sister Nancy Sheridan,
Father Kemp led the deacons and wives retreat for the Diocese of Orlando,
Florida. In March, he spoke also at the Archdiocesan Assembly in the Archdiocese
of Omaha, Nebraska. Dolores R. Leckey recently completed a book, The Decree on
the Laity and the Declaration on Christian Education, which is part
of a series being published by Paulist press entitled Rediscovering
Vatican II. During the fall she gave several presentations based on
the book: for the "Voice of The Faithful" at Holy Trinity parish in Georgetown;
at a conference sponsored by Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana;
and at St. Charles Parish in Brunswick, Maine. That particular talk emphasized
the changing role of women. Dolores worked on several retreats in the
fall of 2005, including the Woodstock Business Conference retreat, which
she co-led with Woodstock director Father Gap Lo Biondo, and a retreat
for clergy at the Archdiocese of New York held at the Atonement Friars
Spirituality Center in Graymoor. Dolores also attended the annual meeting
of the "Church in America: Leadership Roundtable" held at the Wharton
School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and completed the
editorial work on a new book, Just War, Lasting Peace, during the
fall semester. Just War, Lasting Peace is a joint project of Woodstock
and the Jesuit Conference and is being published by Orbis Books. It will
be in bookstores in April, though it can be ordered now (a description
can be found in an article of this Report).
In 2006, Dolores continues to give lectures on her "laity book." In February,
she spoke at St. Joseph's parish in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and she
gave a shorter version of the same speech to the Woodstock Board later
that month. In March she made a similar presentation to one of the deaneries
of the Archdiocese of Washington at Annunciation Church. In March, Dolores
was a featured speaker at a major conference in St. Louis sponsored by
the Adorers of the Sacred Blood. Her topic was "Women at the Threshold
- Of Church and Society." With Fr. Kemp, Dolores is now involved in a
new Woodstock project, "Theology in the City," both in terms of organization
and content. This being Mozart's anniversary year, Dolores wishes there
was more time to practice sonatas. April 2005 - June 2005 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 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. See Also:
July 2006 - November 2006
[Woodstock Report, December 2006, No. 86]
April 2006 - June 2006
[Woodstock Report, June 2006, No. 85]
July 2005 - March 2006
[Woodstock Report, March
2006, No. 84]
Woodstock Report, June 2005, No. 82 [Woodstock Report, March
2005, No. 81]