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Lilly Endowment, Inc., has awarded a total of more than $2.5 million in grants to three entities for their programs for youth.
Receiving the grants are: St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, St. Meinrad, Indiana, $895,000 for its “One Bread, One Cup” liturgical youth program; the St. John's School of Theology Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota, $875,000 for its Youth and Theology and Ministry program; and the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, $775,000.00 for its Peacebuilders Initiative.
Each of the institutions will use the grant money to make its program self-sustaining. |
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New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond has been elected chairman-elect of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Divine Worship. Aymond will serve for a year in that position before succeeding Bishop Arthur Seratelli as chairman of the CDW.
Aymond has served as a member of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth and the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations.
The New Orleans native earned a master's degree in divinity from Notre Dame Seminary in 1975, the same year he was ordained to the priesthood. He has served as professor, business administrator and rector of St. John Vianney Preparatory Seminary, New Orleans, and professor of pastoral theology and homiletics, director of education, and president-rector of Notre Dame Seminary, New Orleans. |
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William Barry, SJ, will speak on "Friendship with God" at 7:00 pm. March 18 in the first of the Spring 2010 Art of Believing Series sessions at Boston College. Speakers in the series portray how faith is expressed through art and how art can move individuals to faith.
Future speakers and dates will be: Paul Wilkes, "In Due Season: A Catholic Life," 7:00pm, March 23; Professor Roy Pererira, SJ, "Growing in Faith in the 21st Century: A Preacher's Perspective," 7:00pm, March 25; novelist Ron Hansen, "Seeing," 5:30pm, April 15; James Carroll, "James Carroll: Practicing Catholic," 7:00pm, April 21.
Those unable to attend the programs may access them via podcast and webcast. For more information, visit http://www.bc.edu/church21/c21news.html. |
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| The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy is providing a video series on its Web site (liturgy.nd.edu), featuring Monsignor Bruce Harbert, Anthony Ruff OSB, Rev. Paul Turner, and Sister Joyce Ann Zimmerman in separate videos providing background catechesis on the Third Edition of the Roman Missal. The videos can be viewed in four 15-minute segments or in entirety. PDFs of the video text also are available on the Web site. |
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| The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University have joined the Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NeTVUE). NeTVUE is an initative of the Council of Independent Colleges designed to help institutions deepen vocational exploration among students. For more information about NeTVUE, visit www.cic.edu/NetVUE. |
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The North American Academy of Liturgy honored Gail Ramshaw with the Berakah Award during its convention in January in Milwaukee. Ramshaw, a scholar of liturgical language, is a professor of religion at La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where in 2008 she received the Faculty Distinguished Scholarship Award.
She is the author of Treasures Old and New: Images in the Lectionary, Christian Worship: 100,000 Sundays of Symbols and Rituals, and The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter, all published by Augsburg Fortress in 2009, and A Metaphorical God, published by Liturgy Training Publications.
Ramshaw is a past president of NAAL and a member of Societas Liturgica. |
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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed John C. Cavadini to the International Theological Commission, an advising body of theologians to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Cavadini is an associate professor and chair of theology and McGrath-Cavadini Director of the Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. The ND faculty member since 1990 specializes in patristic and early medieval theology, the theology of Augustine and the history of bibilical and patristic exegesis. |
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The Georgetown Center for Liturgy has honored Redemptorist James Wallace with its award for "Outstanding Contributions to the Liturgical Life of the American Church." The award was bestowed on December 9 at the Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Wallace has been a professor of homiletics at Washington Theological Union since 1986. Prior to arriving at WTU, he taught at the Redemptorist seminary at Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus, New York. The past president of the Academy of Homiletics, the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics, and the Religious Speech Association has served as co-editor of the new Theological Review. |
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The Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions awarded Kevin Seasoltz, OSB, the Frederic R. McManus Award during its National meeting in October.
Seasoltz, a Benedictine monk with Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, has edited Worship for 23 years. He is the author of A Sense of the Sacred: Theological Foundations of Sacred Architecture and Art and God's Gift Giving: In Christ and Through the Spirit, both published by Continuum.
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The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies offers an online program for catechists, religion teachers, and others who desire to deepen their faith.
For the course, Fordham faculty members use the Into the Fields adult formation resource, developed by Twenty-third Publications. The course offers students a comprehensive catechism-based review of Catholic teaching, practical catechetical skills, concrete teaching methods, and a chance to deepen their faith through Ignatian exercises. |
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| On October 1, Robert Koopmann, OSB, was inaugurated as the president of St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota.
Koopmann has taught music at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University since 1975 and has been the fine arts division head from 2006 to 2009. The
1968 graduate of St. John's University holds a master’s degree in music from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a doctor of music arts from the University of Iowa and a master of divinity from St. John's School of Theology Seminary.
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Patricia Sullivan Vanni has been named the new director of the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project. Vanni, of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is completing her doctorate at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her master's of divinity degree is from St. John's Seminary and School of Theology, Collegeville, Minnesota. She has been the executive director of The Leaven Center in Eden Prairie.
To learn more about the Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership Project, visit www.EmergingModels.org. |
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| C21 Online, short for Church in the 21st Century Online, is an outreach of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry that offers noncredit courses for personal or professional development. Among the courses offered in October are “Growing Faith: Part 1. Children and Adolescents,” “Encountering Mark, Matthew, and Luke: The Synoptic Gospels,” and “Christian Faith and Moral Character.” For more information, visit http://www.bc.edu/sites/c21online/. |
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| The National Association for Pastoral Musicians is inviting composers to submit work for a competition of new Mass settings using the new translation of the Order of Mass. The four settings that will be chosen as finalists will be sung and evaluated during the 2010 NPM National Convention July 12 – 16 in Detroit, Michigan. The winning entry will receive $1,500. More information is available at http://www.npm.org/Articles/mass_setting.html. |
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| The Washington Theological Union is offering its graduate certificate in Franciscan Theology and Spirituality through distance learning. For more information, visit http://www.wtu.edu/academics/franciscanonline/onlinefranciscancertificate.htm. |
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| The National Initiative for Adolescent Catechesis has formulated a vision and outcomes statement. It calls for re-imagining faith formation and pastoral ministry efforts with young people and their families. It can be read at http://adolescentcatechesis.org/about/vision-and-outcomes/?phpMyAdmin=42127c7fd043c66a3708134c9f5c61ca. |
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| Guiding Principles & Strategies for Inclusion in the Liturgy of Catholics with Disabilities, published by the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions, is available at www.fdlc.org. |
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| At the National Association of Pastoral Musicians annual convention, Paul Inwood was awarded with the Pastoral Musician of the Year Award and Monsignor Ray East with the Jubilate Deo Award. |
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| Catholic Theological Union has added five professional master of arts degree options for students interested in preparing for ministry in specialized fields. The options are: master of arts in biblical ministry, master of arts in Hispanic theology and ministry, master of arts in intercultural ministry, master of arts in justice ministry, and master of arts in liturgy. For more information, contact Kathy Van Duser at admissions@ctu.edu. |
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| The Center for Applied Research at Georgetown University has published the Catholic Ministry Formation Directory 2009, a revised and expanded edition of the reference for seminary, diaconate, and lay ministry formation programs. It contains an analysis of formation program participants, a listing of Catholic ministry formation programs, and a statistical overview of ministry formation program enrollments. For more information, visit http://cara.georgetown.edu. |
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| Catholic Theological Union professor of New Testament studies Barbara Reid, OP, has been appointed the school’s new vice president and academic dean. The 21-year CTU faculty member holds a doctorate in theological studies from The Catholic University of America. She succeeds Gary Reibe-Estrella, SVD, who served in the position for 13 years. |
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| The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is making available Pope Benedict's third encyclical, Charity in Truth, in both English and Spanish. For more information, visit www.USCCB.org. |
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St. John's University President Emeritus Rev. Hilary Thimmesh, OSB, is the director of the Benedictine Institute at the university in Collegeville, Minnesota.
The Benedictine Institute was established to honor the late Brother Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, who served as preside at St. John's from 1991 to 2008. He died on December 29, 2008.
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Rev. Frederic H. Tillotson, OCarm, has been named the new president of Washington Theological Union. He succeeds John Burkhard, OFM.
Most recently Tillotson was the president of Salpointe High School in Tucson, Arizona. He also has served as the director and instructor for the Kino Institute, an affiliate school of the University of San Francisco, and the director for clinical ethics for the Catholic diocese for the Franciscan Health System of Philadelphia. |
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The traveling exhibit "Women and Spirit" will be at The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas, from September to December 2009; the Smithsonian-international Gallery in the Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, D.C., January to April 2010; the Statue of Liberty National Monument/Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York City, September to December 2010; and Mississippi River Museum, Dubuque, Iowa, February to April 2011.
The exhibit tells the story of how women in religious orders have shaped the country while establishing schools and hospitals and working for social justice. It is sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
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| In a question-and-answer format addressing the swine flu and liturgy, the Committee on Divine Worship, of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, recommends encouraging priests and extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion to wash their hands prior to Mass or to use an alcohol-based bacterial solution before or after distributing Communion. The questions and answers can be found at http://usccb.org/liturgy/swineflu.shtml. |
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