Dean Brackley, S.J. of University of Central America discusses "The Challenges in Jesuit & Catholic Higher Education Today"
The Arthur C. McGovern, S.J. Catholic Studies program and the Carney Latin American Solidarity Archives (CLASA) are sponsoring an evening with Fr. Dean Brackley, S.J. The event will be held on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ford Life Sciences Room 113 on the McNichols Campus.Fr. Brackley is a leader in social justice ministries, author and theology/ethics professor at the University of Central America in El Salvador. He is a long-time advocate for engaging social issues of our time, and the understanding of the Catholic faith in dialogue with other religions. He is very passionate in helping students discover their vocation to love and serve.
His works include The Call to Discernment for Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola (Crossroads, 2004), and Divine Revolution: Salvation and Liberation in Catholic Thought (Orbis Books, 1996).
Prior to coming to UCA, where he volunteered to go immediately following the murder of his six brother Jesuits and their two co-workers, he taught at Fordham University and worked in Manhattan's Lower East side and the South Bronx as a social ministry worker.
He entered the Jesuit order in 1964, ordained a priest in 1976 and received his doctorate in theological ethics from the University of Chicago in 1980.
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Publish date: January 23, 2008