Updated Feb. 28, 2008
Alumni/ae & Friends
Jacquineau Azetsop, STL’04, is finishing up a doctorate in Christian ethics at Boston College and working on a master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
William Barry, S.J., STL’63, spoke at the Hekima Forum for Exploring Faith in Public Life on Dec. 15, 2007. The title: “Making Friends with God in the Real World.” While at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya, he also conducted a workshop for religious on “Spiritual Direction and Formation” and another for Jesuit theological students on “Spiritual Direction in the Context of the Spiritual Exercises.” He also conducted the triduum for Jesuit scholastics from Dec. 21-24. In March 2008, Loyola Press will publish Barry’s A Friendship Like No Other: Experiencing God's Amazing Embrace.
William E. Burns, MTS’96, joined the department of religion at Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Fla., last fall. He lives with his wife and daughter in Lady Lake, Fla.
Maria Cataldo, MTS’02, married Gary Cunniff at Christ the King Church in Worcester, Mass., on June 16, 2007. Paul Crowley, S.J., former visiting professor at Weston Jesuit, presided. Many Weston Jesuit alumni/ae were in attendance. Gary and Maria (now Maria Cataldo-Cunniff) live in Quincy, Mass.
Chuck Colbert, MDiv.’02, STL’05, celebrated his bar mitzvah on April 7, 2007, at Temple Israel, where he is a member of the congregation.
Rustin Lee Comer, MA’06, is currently working on a doctorate in theology, ethics and culture at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.
Pablo Andres Concha, STL’96, is teaching moral theology and doing pastoral ministry at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile.
Kelly Connors, MTS’99, just completed a master’s degree and ecclesiastical license in Canon Law at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and will be continuing on for her civil and ecclesiastical doctorate in Canon Law, with a particular focus on consecrated life. Last summer, Kelly interned at the Legal Resource Center for Religious in Silver Spring, Md. In the fall, she gave a mini-course in Canon Law for the lay ministry formation program in the Diocese of Manchester, N.H.
Jen Constantine-Jackson, MTS’07, presented a conference paper at Baylor University in October called “Thomas Aquinas on Prayer and Friendship in the Summa Theologiae.” Also, her article, “Dreams in Prayer and Discernment,” was published in the Winter 2007 issue (vol. 66.1) of Review for Religious: A Journal of Catholic Spirituality.
James H. Dahlinger, S.J., ThM’90, teaches French and English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He also ministers to Le Moyne students as a resident chaplain. Jim is a weekend pastoral associate at Saint Mary’s Church in Baldwinsville, N.Y. He just published his book, Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History with Peter Lang Press (June 2007).
Jylliane England, MTS’07, began work last June as a part-time chaplain at the Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Mass.
Francisco M. Gomes, MDiv.’02, is a full-time member of the Psychology faculty at the Fernando Pessoa University in Porto, Portugal, and part-time psychotherapist in private practice in Braga.
Thomas Haake, O.M.V., STL’87, recently earned an STD at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila. His dissertation is an analysis of some of the major teachings of the Catholic Church in the area of bioethics as promulgated between 1968 and 1995.
Michael Hickey, MDiv.’87, is teaching courses based on his recently released book, Get Wisdom (Xlibris Corporation 2005), this winter in Naples, Fla., at Hodges University and Florida Gulf Coast University.
Akiko Horiba, MTS’03, is working on a doctorate at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is analyzing the root causes of violent conflicts, particularly between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia at the turn of the 21st century. She is currently living among both the Muslim and Christian communities there, working toward building peace and preventing further conflict between the two parties.
Eric J. Knapp, S.J., MDiv.’04, ThM’05, is pastor of St. Xavier Church, the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was made pastor in June 2005 after serving a year at a parish in Chicago – St. Procopius, a Mexican-immigrant parish – and seven months after being ordained. His parish has grown by 20 percent under his leadership and is, as he reports, “vibrant, active and spirit-filled.”
Rob Kroll, S.J., MDiv.’99, is living and ministering in the Twin Cities, specifically at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo, Minn.
Nekita Lamour, MTS’05, enrolled in the master’s program at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans and will be traveling from her home in Boston to Xavier the next four summers in order to complete the program. In early February, Nekita served as a panelist at the Boston Catholic Diversity Symposium at Emmanuel College. Her presentation focused on “The Haitian Catholic Experience in Boston.”
Marie Lucca, MTS’05, is a candidate for ordination in the United Church of Christ. She currently serves West Parish Church in Andover as the minister for children, youth and families.
James Martin, S.J., MDiv.’98, ThM’99, reports that his new book, A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center Stage with Jesus, Judas and Life’s Big Questions, was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2007. The book tells the story of his six months as “theological consultant” to a new play about Jesus and Judas, which debuted in 2005 at New York’s Public Theater.
Alan C. Mitchell, MDiv.’79, associate professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Georgetown University, published a commentary, Hebrews, in the Sacra Pagina series from Liturgical Press, which is edited by Weston Jesuit Professor of New Testament Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Catherine Playoust, STL’98, is moving to Melbourne, Australia, early in 2008. She will be a lecturer in New Testament and related literature at Jesuit Theological College.
Pierre André Ranaivoarson, S.J., STL’93, was working in Antananarivo, Madagascar, as the Coordinator of the new Arrupe Center there. Currently, he is working as the university chaplain in Fianarantsoa, the academic and intellectual hub in Madagascar. According to his report, he and his staff are looking for every possible way to help the thousands of Catholic students at the university. The living conditions are so poor there, he wrote, that it is difficult for them to pursue their studies. He also reported that he has been appointed as the coordinator of the new Jesuit Cultural Center.
Susan M. Slater, S.H.C.J., MDiv.’81 has been living with her religious community in Pasadena, Calif., and ministering in St. Stephen Martyr Parish in Monterey Park for the past seven years. For the last three years, she reports, the parish has had no resident priest pastor, so she has served in lieu of one as the Parish Life Director. There are only four directors serving in this capacity in the Archdiocese, but, she writes, more will be appointed in the future because of the priest shortage. The parish, located near Los Angeles, has about 2,000 members, the majority of whom are Hispanic or Asian (Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian); the parish is home to the Archdiocesan Indonesian Center. In addition to working with the Indonesian Chaplain, she works in close partnership with a bilingual, Mexican-American priest of the Archdiocese who serves as the main sacramental minister.
Todd Struble, ThM’93, has been appointed as the Senior Pastor of Highlands United Methodist Church in Highlands, N.C. Todd and his wife, Diane, and their eight children enjoy hiking, canoeing, and visiting the many waterfalls in this mountain community. Highlands UMC (www.highlandsmethodist.org) operates a food pantry, hosts an annual mission to Bolivia, and participates in many ecumenical activities.
Stephen Michael Tappe, MTS’07, moved with his wife, April, and four children back to their hometown of Helena, Mont., following graduation. After fighting wild land fires this summer, he was hired as a high school religion teacher for St. Andrew School, a local Catholic K-12.
Tom Washburn, O.F.M., MDiv.’99, ThM’01, was recently appointed director of communications for the Immaculate Conception Province of the Order of Friars Minor.
Po-Jen Wu, S.J., STL’00, left Manila and returned to Taiwan in 2004 to be on the faculty of theology at Fujen Catholic University, where he teaches ecclesiology and spirituality courses. In addition, he earned an STD at Fujen Catholic University last year.
In Memoriam
James Aloysius Martin, S.J., identified as the “world’s oldest Jesuit” in an obituary that appeared Oct. 6, 2007, in The Washington Post, died October first at the Georgetown University Jesuit Residence in Washington, DC. He was 105. According to Weston Jesuit’s electronic alumni records, Martin received “internal” degrees from Weston College (the precursor to Weston Jesuit) in the mid 1920s. The obituary reported that he had received a master’s degree in theology in 1926 also at Weston College. Father Martin was the founding director of the Loyola Retreat House in Charles County, Md., and spent much of his life as a Jesuit conducting retreats and leading outreach missions for the Church.
Jacquineau Azetsop, STL’04, is finishing up a doctorate in Christian ethics at Boston College and working on a master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
William Barry, S.J., STL’63, spoke at the Hekima Forum for Exploring Faith in Public Life on Dec. 15, 2007. The title: “Making Friends with God in the Real World.” While at Hekima College in Nairobi, Kenya, he also conducted a workshop for religious on “Spiritual Direction and Formation” and another for Jesuit theological students on “Spiritual Direction in the Context of the Spiritual Exercises.” He also conducted the triduum for Jesuit scholastics from Dec. 21-24. In March 2008, Loyola Press will publish Barry’s A Friendship Like No Other: Experiencing God's Amazing Embrace.
William E. Burns, MTS’96, joined the department of religion at Trinity Catholic High School in Ocala, Fla., last fall. He lives with his wife and daughter in Lady Lake, Fla.
Maria Cataldo, MTS’02, married Gary Cunniff at Christ the King Church in Worcester, Mass., on June 16, 2007. Paul Crowley, S.J., former visiting professor at Weston Jesuit, presided. Many Weston Jesuit alumni/ae were in attendance. Gary and Maria (now Maria Cataldo-Cunniff) live in Quincy, Mass.
Chuck Colbert, MDiv.’02, STL’05, celebrated his bar mitzvah on April 7, 2007, at Temple Israel, where he is a member of the congregation.
Rustin Lee Comer, MA’06, is currently working on a doctorate in theology, ethics and culture at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, Calif.
Pablo Andres Concha, STL’96, is teaching moral theology and doing pastoral ministry at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile.
Kelly Connors, MTS’99, just completed a master’s degree and ecclesiastical license in Canon Law at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and will be continuing on for her civil and ecclesiastical doctorate in Canon Law, with a particular focus on consecrated life. Last summer, Kelly interned at the Legal Resource Center for Religious in Silver Spring, Md. In the fall, she gave a mini-course in Canon Law for the lay ministry formation program in the Diocese of Manchester, N.H.
Jen Constantine-Jackson, MTS’07, presented a conference paper at Baylor University in October called “Thomas Aquinas on Prayer and Friendship in the Summa Theologiae.” Also, her article, “Dreams in Prayer and Discernment,” was published in the Winter 2007 issue (vol. 66.1) of Review for Religious: A Journal of Catholic Spirituality.
James H. Dahlinger, S.J., ThM’90, teaches French and English at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y. He also ministers to Le Moyne students as a resident chaplain. Jim is a weekend pastoral associate at Saint Mary’s Church in Baldwinsville, N.Y. He just published his book, Etienne Pasquier on Ethics and History with Peter Lang Press (June 2007).
Jylliane England, MTS’07, began work last June as a part-time chaplain at the Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, Mass.
Francisco M. Gomes, MDiv.’02, is a full-time member of the Psychology faculty at the Fernando Pessoa University in Porto, Portugal, and part-time psychotherapist in private practice in Braga.
Thomas Haake, O.M.V., STL’87, recently earned an STD at the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila. His dissertation is an analysis of some of the major teachings of the Catholic Church in the area of bioethics as promulgated between 1968 and 1995.
Michael Hickey, MDiv.’87, is teaching courses based on his recently released book, Get Wisdom (Xlibris Corporation 2005), this winter in Naples, Fla., at Hodges University and Florida Gulf Coast University.
Akiko Horiba, MTS’03, is working on a doctorate at Sophia University in Tokyo. She is analyzing the root causes of violent conflicts, particularly between Christians and Muslims in Indonesia at the turn of the 21st century. She is currently living among both the Muslim and Christian communities there, working toward building peace and preventing further conflict between the two parties.
Eric J. Knapp, S.J., MDiv.’04, ThM’05, is pastor of St. Xavier Church, the oldest parish in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio. He was made pastor in June 2005 after serving a year at a parish in Chicago – St. Procopius, a Mexican-immigrant parish – and seven months after being ordained. His parish has grown by 20 percent under his leadership and is, as he reports, “vibrant, active and spirit-filled.”
Rob Kroll, S.J., MDiv.’99, is living and ministering in the Twin Cities, specifically at the Demontreville Jesuit Retreat House in Lake Elmo, Minn.
Nekita Lamour, MTS’05, enrolled in the master’s program at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans and will be traveling from her home in Boston to Xavier the next four summers in order to complete the program. In early February, Nekita served as a panelist at the Boston Catholic Diversity Symposium at Emmanuel College. Her presentation focused on “The Haitian Catholic Experience in Boston.”
Marie Lucca, MTS’05, is a candidate for ordination in the United Church of Christ. She currently serves West Parish Church in Andover as the minister for children, youth and families.
James Martin, S.J., MDiv.’98, ThM’99, reports that his new book, A Jesuit Off-Broadway: Center Stage with Jesus, Judas and Life’s Big Questions, was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2007. The book tells the story of his six months as “theological consultant” to a new play about Jesus and Judas, which debuted in 2005 at New York’s Public Theater.
Alan C. Mitchell, MDiv.’79, associate professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Georgetown University, published a commentary, Hebrews, in the Sacra Pagina series from Liturgical Press, which is edited by Weston Jesuit Professor of New Testament Daniel J. Harrington, S.J.
Catherine Playoust, STL’98, is moving to Melbourne, Australia, early in 2008. She will be a lecturer in New Testament and related literature at Jesuit Theological College.
Pierre André Ranaivoarson, S.J., STL’93, was working in Antananarivo, Madagascar, as the Coordinator of the new Arrupe Center there. Currently, he is working as the university chaplain in Fianarantsoa, the academic and intellectual hub in Madagascar. According to his report, he and his staff are looking for every possible way to help the thousands of Catholic students at the university. The living conditions are so poor there, he wrote, that it is difficult for them to pursue their studies. He also reported that he has been appointed as the coordinator of the new Jesuit Cultural Center.
Susan M. Slater, S.H.C.J., MDiv.’81 has been living with her religious community in Pasadena, Calif., and ministering in St. Stephen Martyr Parish in Monterey Park for the past seven years. For the last three years, she reports, the parish has had no resident priest pastor, so she has served in lieu of one as the Parish Life Director. There are only four directors serving in this capacity in the Archdiocese, but, she writes, more will be appointed in the future because of the priest shortage. The parish, located near Los Angeles, has about 2,000 members, the majority of whom are Hispanic or Asian (Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian); the parish is home to the Archdiocesan Indonesian Center. In addition to working with the Indonesian Chaplain, she works in close partnership with a bilingual, Mexican-American priest of the Archdiocese who serves as the main sacramental minister.
Todd Struble, ThM’93, has been appointed as the Senior Pastor of Highlands United Methodist Church in Highlands, N.C. Todd and his wife, Diane, and their eight children enjoy hiking, canoeing, and visiting the many waterfalls in this mountain community. Highlands UMC (www.highlandsmethodist.org) operates a food pantry, hosts an annual mission to Bolivia, and participates in many ecumenical activities.
Stephen Michael Tappe, MTS’07, moved with his wife, April, and four children back to their hometown of Helena, Mont., following graduation. After fighting wild land fires this summer, he was hired as a high school religion teacher for St. Andrew School, a local Catholic K-12.
Tom Washburn, O.F.M., MDiv.’99, ThM’01, was recently appointed director of communications for the Immaculate Conception Province of the Order of Friars Minor.
Po-Jen Wu, S.J., STL’00, left Manila and returned to Taiwan in 2004 to be on the faculty of theology at Fujen Catholic University, where he teaches ecclesiology and spirituality courses. In addition, he earned an STD at Fujen Catholic University last year.
In Memoriam
James Aloysius Martin, S.J., identified as the “world’s oldest Jesuit” in an obituary that appeared Oct. 6, 2007, in The Washington Post, died October first at the Georgetown University Jesuit Residence in Washington, DC. He was 105. According to Weston Jesuit’s electronic alumni records, Martin received “internal” degrees from Weston College (the precursor to Weston Jesuit) in the mid 1920s. The obituary reported that he had received a master’s degree in theology in 1926 also at Weston College. Father Martin was the founding director of the Loyola Retreat House in Charles County, Md., and spent much of his life as a Jesuit conducting retreats and leading outreach missions for the Church.