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          Father McBrien to be honored by DePaul

          
            
              
                
                Published: June 12, 2008
              

              
                Author: Michael O. Garvey
              

              







          

          
          
          

          
        
        
        
          

Rev. Richard P. McBrien, Crowley-O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at the Sunday (June 15) commencement exercises of DePaul University of Chicago.

DePaul is honoring Father McBrien for beinga prominent voice for inclusiveness and tolerance in the church and for active participation by lay members in the liturgy and other church activitiesand for havinggreatly advanced public understanding of the Catholic faith.

A priest of the archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., Father McBrien has been a member of Notre Dames faculty since 1980 and served as chair of the theology department from 1980 to 1991.

Father McBriens scholarly interests include ecclesiology, the relationship between religion and politics, and the theological, doctrinal and spiritual dimensions of the Catholic tradition.He is author or editor of numerous books includingCatholicism,Church: the Continuing Quest,Caesar’s Coin: Religion and Politics in America,Lives of the PopesandLives of the Saints.He also was general editor ofThe HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism.

In addition to writing a syndicated weekly theology column for the Catholic press since 1966, Father McBrien often comments on the Catholic church for television and radio programs.

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