What's New With the Faculty? MOSAIC, Summer 2007   Fr. Richard J. Cassidy, professor of Sacred Scripture, published the book, Four Times Peter: Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi, Liturgical Press 2007. Please see the review of this book on page 3 of the Mosaic.   Dr. Patricia Cooney-Hathaway, associate professor of spirituality and systematic theology, was the keynote speaker for the "Called to Collaborate" Conference, January 24, sponsored by the Office for Pastoral Ministries; conducted an all-day program on "The Male and Female Journey: Implications for Spiritual Direction," Manresa Spiritual Direction Internship Program, February 10; gave an evening presentation on "A Contemporary Dilemma: Spirituality Versus Religion," St. Owen Parish, February 27; conducted a morning session on "Sexuality and the Spiritual Life," for a MAPS Formation class, March 3; presented an evening lecture for the Downriver Vicariate Formation Program, "The Male and Female Journey: Implications for Spirituality," March 5; attended a conference, "Islam and Christianity," Holy Cross College, March 16-18; presented "Jesus' Spirituality as the Norm and Test of Our Own," Bon Secours chaplains and parish nurses, March 29; facilitated a faculty colloquium on John of the Cross's spirituality, April 18.   Dr. Eduardo Echeverria, associate professor of philosophy, presented: "Reflections on Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology," Seventeenth Annual Conference of the British Association of Christians in Psychology, March 2-4, All Saints Pastoral Centre, St. Albans, United Kingdom; "Christ and Culture after John Paul II," John Paul II Day of Faith and Culture, SHMS, April 21; "Faithful Reason, Reasonable Faith," Symposium in Memory of Pope John Paul II; "Fides et Ratio: The Challenge to Christians from the Secular Culture and Relativism," May 12, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; "Jacque Maritain's New Christendom State," Fifty-third Annual Convention, College Theology Society, Faith in Public Life, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, May 31-June 2; "The Hermeneutics of Doctrinal Truth: On the Changeable and Unchangeable in Dogma," conference hosted by the International Institute for Christian Studies, "Truth Under Deconstruction: Presenting Christ in a Relativistic World," Kansas City, MO, July 12-14. He published "The Christian Faith as a Way of Life: In Appreciation of Francis Schaeffer," Evangelical Quarterly, July 2007.   Dr. Robert Fastiggi, associate professor of systematic theology, published "Mary and the Eucharist in St. Louis de Monfort," Mary at the Foot of the Cross VI: Marian Coredemption in the Eucharist Mystery, Academy of the Immaculate, 2007. He contributed five entries for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Macmillan Reference/Thomson Gale, late 2007. He spoke at a conference on the Protestant Reformation sponsored by the Marian Peace Center, St. Anastasia Parish, Troy, MI, December 2; attended a meeting at Catholic University of America as a member of the editorial team updating the New Catholic Encyclopedia in electronic form; spoke at a conference on Catholic apologetics, Miles Christi Institute, St. John Center, Plymouth, MI, February 24-25; gave a four-part lecture series on Non-Catholic faiths, St. Valerie of Ravenna Parish, Clinton Township, MI, Wednesday nights Feb. 28- March 21; guest speaker for Prof. Jane Adolphe's canon law class, Ave Maria School of Law, Ann Arbor, MI, March 21 and 28. Since January 8, Dr. Fastiggi has been giving Monday afternoon lectures for the novices and postulants of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Ann Arbor, MI, and on Monday evenings, he's been teaching Introduction to Sacred Scripture for the Eastern Catholic Re-Evangelization Center, West Bloomfield, MI.   Fr. Daniel Jones, assistant professor of theology, gave these presentations to the theologians at Sacred Heart: December 2, "Christian Personal Relationships"; Febuary 17, "Strategies for Living Celibacy"; and March 24, "The Ministry of Lector."   Dr. Daniel Keating, assistant professor of theology, led a formation session for graduate theology seminarians II-IV, "On Being Effective Evangelists," December 2; lectured on "Students and the Life of Faith," Lithuanian Catholic Association, January 27; spoke to the Univ. of Michigan InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship on "Fasting," February 17; presented a three-part series for University Christian Outreach and the Univ. of Michigan, "Perspectives on Homosexuality," February-March; gave a lecture series on Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles to the novitiate of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, January-March.   Dr. Mark Latkovic, professor of moral theology, had several articles and reviews accepted for publication. He gave the Rose Mass talk, "The Vocation to Heal," for health care workers of the Diocese of Lansing, MI, January 20. He was interviewed by Our Sunday Visitor for the article "Catholic Guilt." He directed an STL thesis and was a second reader for an MA thesis.   Mr. Ralph Martin, assistant professor of theology, gave these talks: December 1-3, Parish Mission, Holiness and Evangelization, Diocese of Pembroke, Canada; December 11-13, Parish Mission, Holiness and Evangelization, Buffalo, NY; January 24, Legatus, Toledo, OH, Chapter, "Theology of the Laity"; February 9-10, Retreat, Holiness and Evangelization, Diocese of Marquette, MI; February 11, St. Francis de Sales Parish, Manistique, MI, "The Wisdom of Francis de Sales"; February 16-18, Amazing Grace Conference, Detroit, MI, "What is the Spirit Saying?"; March 4-5, St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, E. Lansing, MI, Lenten Lecture Series, "The Universal Call to Holiness and Mission"; March 9-10, York University, Toronto, Canada, student retreat, "The Spirituality of St. Therese of Lisieux"; March 22, Theology Department Lecture Series, Franciscan University of Steubenville, "The Journey to God from Baptism to the Beatific Vision"; March 24, Catholic Men's Conference, University of Detroit, "The Wisdom of the Saints Concerning Sin"; March 15-26, Lenten Lectures, Ste. Marie Parish, Manchester, NH; March 30, Christ the King Sisters, lecture at the motherhouse, Lincoln, NE. He attended: March 31, Catholic Men's Conference, Diocese of Lincoln, NE; January 29, Board Meeting, Impact Catholic Youth Ministries, Denver, CO; March 15-18, St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary, W. Palm Beach, FL, Symposium on Chaste Celibacy; March 7, Council Meeting, Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University, Omaha, NE. He published the chapter, "The Authority of the Good Shepherd: Overcoming Evil," Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Spirituality and Identity of the Diocesan Priest; Good Shepherd: Living Christ's Own Pastoral Authority, Institute for Priestly Formation, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, March; Hungry For God, new edition published by Servant/St. Anthony, January.   Dr. Michael McCallion, Fr. William Cunningham Chair of Catholic Social Analysis, co-published in February the book, Transforming Catholicism: Liturgical Change and the Vatican II Church,Lexington, Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, and the articles "Status Passages" and "In-Groups and Out-Groups," The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Blackwell Publishing. He conducted a two-day workshop on Catholic social teaching at SHMS for first-and second-year philosophy students.   Fr. John M. McDermott, sj, associate professor of theology, co-edited John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial: Festschrift Avery Cardinal Dulles, St. Joseph's University Press, 2007. He introduced the volume with the essay, "Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: The Man in His Times for Christ's Church." To the volume he also contributed "Reflections on Dominum et Vivificantem," "Response to E. Muller's 'The Nuptial Meaning of the Body,'" and, with Robert Kroll, sj, "Virginity for the Sake of the Kingdom." He also gave a talk on "The Catholic Meaning of Suffering," Holy Trinity Parish, Peachtree City, GA, February 25.   Fr. Earl Muller, sj, Bishop Kevin Britt Chair of Christology, published: "A 'Subordinationist' Text in Origen's De Principiis" (given at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, England, August 18–23, 2002) in Studia Patristica, vol. 41: Orientalia, Clement, Origen, Athanasius, The Cappadocians, Chrysostom, Peeters, 2006; "Theological Aspects of the Letters Dominicae Cenae and Dies Domini of John Paul II" (given at the John Paul II Jesuit Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 21–23, 2002) in John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial: Festschrift Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Joseph's University Press, 2007; presented "The Nuptial Meaning of the Body in the Theology of John Paul II" (given at the Eighth Biennial Jesuit Conference on the Thought of Pope John Paul II: The Theology of the Body, June 18–20, 2004, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI) in John Paul II on the Body: Human, Eucharistic, Ecclesial: Festschrift Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Saint Joseph's University Press, 2007. He has been interviewed for a year-long series on Christology in Faith Magazine. The first installment has appeared in the January/February 2007 issue.   Dr. Edward Peters, Edmund Cardinal Szoka Chair of Faculty Development, contributed six entries to the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity and had articles and reviews published in the Ave Maria Law Review, Antiphon, Catholic World Report, Our Sunday Visitor and The Catholic Answer. His short question-and-answer monograph, Excommunication and the Catholic Church, was published by Ascension Press. He spoke at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota on John Paul II and canon law, and gave interviews to the New York Times, Catholic Answers Live, Sirius Catholic Radio and Kresta in the Afternoon. He continues his work with the National Catholic Office for the Deaf toward developing a uniform translation of the Mass into American Sign Language.   Dr. Herman Peterson, director of the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Library and assistant professor of theology, taught the New Testament course during the winter quarter in the Theology Program at the Eastern Catholic Re-evangelization Center in Bloomfield Hills, MI. The center is sponsored by the Chaldean Eparchy of St. Thomas the Apostle.   Rev. William Promesso, adjunct professor of homiletics, led the Lenten Parish Mission, St. Mary Parish, St. Clair, MI, March 3-6, with the theme "Tune Up Your Spirit," using automotive images to preach on Eucharist, Catholic Social Teaching and Reconciliation. He continues to be a monthly columnist for FaithForward in the News-Herald Newspaper's Life and Leisure section. He serves on the Downriver Advisory Committee of Arbor Hospice and Home Care and is pastor-delegate on the School Committee at Gabriel Richard Catholic High School, Riverview, MI.   Mrs. Patricia Rennie, dean of the Institute for Ministry, presented "Theological Reflection in Everyday Life," Gospel of Life Conference, February 8, and "Mercy and Forgiveness in the Passion According to Luke," St. Fabian Parish, Farmington Hills, MI, March 30.   Dr. Janet E. Smith, Fr. Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics, reviewed Servais Pinckaers, The Pinckaers Reader (CUA Press, 2005) in The American Philosophical Quarterly (Fall 2006), and published "The Morality of Condom Use by HIV-Infected Spouses," The Thomist (January 2006). She gave these presentations: "Celibacy and Spiritual Fatherhood," Institute of Priestly Formation, St. Vincent de Paul Seminary, Boynton Beach, FL, March 17; Honored Speaker at the Christian Culture Lecture Series, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada, two talks, January 13-14. She presented Humanae Vitae, The Culture of Life, and various bioethical issues, at these places: "The Virgin Mary's Dialogue," Fordham University, Bronx, NY, March 22; St. Joseph Seminary, Bronx, NY, March 23, Edith Stein Conference, Notre Dame, IN, February 24; for the group, The New Sexual Revolution, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona, February 27; Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, February 22; Louisiana Catholic College Student Conference, Natchitoches, LA, three talks, January 27; St. Anthony Parish, Temperance, MI, January 17; Pope John Paul II Cultural Center Conference, Houston, TX, December 2; University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, December 1. She has agreed to be a member of the Advisory Board of ENDOW.   Ms. Michelle Szczepanski, assistant dean of studies, attended the Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association & WCET conference on "Best Practices in Web-based Services for Students: Providing Support for Learning," February 14-16. WCET is an association of colleges and universities whose mission is to advance the effective use of technology in higher education.   Fr. Daniel Trapp, graduate spiritual director and assistant professor of systematic theology, liturgy and sacraments, presented Growth in Prayer according to St. Teresa of Avila for the Knights of Columbus, St. Regis Parish, Bloomfield Hills, MI, January; gave an RCIA presentation on Reconciliation and Anointing, St. Regis Parish, January 24; took part in and presented the paper, "How to Discern a Call to Priestly Celibacy," Institute for Priestly Formation annual symposium, St. Vincent de Paul Seminary, Boynton Beach, FL, March 15-18.   Dr. Peter S. Williamson, associate professor of Sacred Scripture, signed a contract with Baker Academic as one of three editors of the sixteen volume The New Catholic Commentary on Scripture; facilitated a discussion of "Charisms in Ministry" of the Fellowship of St. Paul at SHMS, January 19; attended the "Amazing Grace Conference" at Cobo Center February 16-18; gave talks on "The Kingdom and the Cost" to the Fellowship of St. Paul, March 23 and "Building Brotherhood" to the Word of God Men's Retreat, Storer YMCA Camp, Brooklyn, MI, March 25.