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Fr. Brian Daley, S.J.
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Bio
Fr. Brian Daley, S.J.
Brian E. Daley, S.J., is the Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana). A 1961 graduate of Fordham University (New York), he read Literae Humaniores (classics and philosophy) at Merton College, Oxford, from 1961 to 1964 as a Rhodes Scholar, then entered the Society of Jesus. After theological studies in Frankfurt, Germany, and ordination to the priesthood in 1970, he returned to Campion Hall, Oxford, to do a D. Phil. in the Faculty of Theology, from 1972 until 1978. He then taught historical theology for eighteen years at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving to Notre Dame in 1996. He is the author of The Hope of the Early Church (Cambridge, 1991; Hendrickson, 2002) and On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies (St. Vladimir’s, 1998), and Gregory of Nazianzus (Routledge, 2006). as well as many articles. He is also the translator of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Cosmic Liturgy. The Universe according to Maximus the Confessor (Ignatius, 2003). Fr. Daley is the executive secretary of the Catholic-Orthodox Consultation for North America, and a member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals; he has served as a trustee of Le Moyne College, Boston College, and Fordham and Georgetown Universities. In the fall of 2012, he was awarded the Ratzinger Prize in Theology by the Vatican’s Ratzinger Foundation; he is the first Jesuit and the first American to receive this award.
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Francis Cardinal George, OMI
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Bio
Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Ph.D., S.T.D., was born on January 16, 1937 in Chicago to Francis J. and Julia R. (McCarthy) George. After attending St. Pascal Elementary School in Chicago, he attended St. Henry Preparatory Seminary in Belleville, IL. He entered the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate on August 14, 1957. He studied theology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and was ordained a priest by Most Rev. Raymond P. Hillinger on December 21, 1963 at Saint Pascal Church. He earned a master’s degree in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. in 1965 and a doctorate in American philosophy at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1970. In 1971, he received a master’s degree in theology from the University of Ottawa in Canada. During those years, he also taught philosophy at the Oblate Seminary, Pass Christian, Mississippi (1964-69); Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (1968); and at Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska (1969-73).
He was Provincial Superior of the Midwestern Province for the Oblates (1973-74). He was Vicar General of the Oblates in Rome from 1974-86. He returned to the United States to coordinate the Circle of Fellows for the Cambridge Center for the Study of Faith and Culture in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1987-90). During that time, he obtained a Doctorate of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Urban University, Rome (1989). Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of Yakima in Washington on July 10, 1990, and then appointed him Archbishop of Portland in Oregon on April 30, 1996. Less than a year later, on April 8, 1997, Pope John Paul named him the eighth Archbishop of Chicago. He is the first native Chicagoan to serve as Archbishop of Chicago. On January 18, 1998, Pope John Paul II announced Archbishop George’s elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals. In November 2007, Cardinal George was elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for a three-year term, which he completed in November 2010.
As Archbishop of Chicago, he has issued two pastoral letters: on evangelization, “Becoming an Evangelizing People,” (November 21, 1997) and on racism, “Dwell in My Love” (April 4, 2001). His book, The Difference God Makes: A Catholic Vision of Faith, Communion, and Culture, was published in October, 2009, by The Crossroad Publishing Company. It is a collection of essays exploring our relationship with God, the responsibility of communion and the transformation of culture. His most recent book, God in Action: How Faith in God Can Address the Challenges of the World, was published in May, 2011, by Doubleday Religion. In this collection of essays, he reflects on the significance of religious faith in the public sphere and underscores the unique contributions of religion to the common good.
He is a member of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the American Society of Missiologists and the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs. In addition to English, he speaks French, Italian, Spanish and some German.
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