ALUMNI &
F A C U LT Y
Fr. Benedict Viviano, O.P. (STL ‘67), was
named a Senior Fellow to the faculty of
the Aquinas Institute of Theology.
Fr. Allen Alexander, M.I.C. (MDiv, STB
‘15), was ordained to the priesthood on
July 25 at his life-long parish, St. Michael
the Archangel in Muskegon, Michigan.
He is now Lead Campus Minister at St.
Catherine’s High School in Racine.
Fr. John McCusker, O.S.B. (MDiv, STB
‘15), was ordained to the priesthood on
September 12 at the Abbey of Saint Mary
and Saint Louis in Missouri.
Fr. Alban Baker, C.R.N.J. (MDiv ’12,
current STL student) was ordained to the
priesthood on October 17 at St. James the
Greater in Charles Town, West Virginia.
Pauline Books & Media
released the latest book
by Rev. Msgr. J. Brian
Bransfield (adjunct faculty).
In Life Everlasting: The
Mystery and the Promise,
Msgr. Bransfield deals with
issues of death and grief in light of the
death and resurrection of Jesus.
A September conference in Oxford
on “The Influences of the Dominican
Order in the Middle Ages” included
presentations by Fr. Timothy Bellamah,
O.P. (MDiv ’98, STL ’99, faculty), Fr.
Dominic Legge, O.P. (MDiv, STB ’07;
STL ’08; faculty), Fr. Ezra Sullivan, O.P.
(MDiv, STB ’09), and Fr. Innocent Smith,
O.P. (MDiv, STB ’13; STL ’15).
Theology professor Fr. Thomas Joseph
White, O.P. (STL ’08, faculty), spoke at a
breakout session of the World Meeting
of Families on “Flesh and Blood:
Covenantal Love and the Meaning of
the Incarnation.”
Dawn Eden (MA ‘10, STB ‘13, STL ’14)
wrote an article for L’Osservatore
Romano, republished in First Things, on
her experience as a woman studying at
the PFIC, “in a prayerful environment
alongside others who, like me, saw
theology not merely as a career but
also as a vocation.”
After
successfully
defending her thesis
in August, Sr. Lucia
Marie
Siemering,
O.P., became the first
graduate of the PFIC’s
new M.A. in Thomistic
Studies program. She
is currently living at
the Villaggio Betania,
the Nashville Dominicans’ convent in
Bracciano, Italy and working at the
Vatican Secretariat of State.
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