Margaret E. Boyles
MEPD, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Thesis: “The Effectiveness of the Principles of Adult Learning in Training Programs for the Business Environment.”

Special interest: Strategic promotion of seminaries; Organizational communication

Memberships:

• International Association of Business Communicators

Contact : (414) 529-6967
pboyles@shst.edu

Rev. Otto Bucher, O.F.M.Cap.
SSL, Pontifical Biblical Institute; STL, Catholic University of America


Special interest: New Testament, especially the Synoptic Gospels and Pauline literature

Publications:

• “Week-day Homily Helps,” St. Anthony Messenger Press
• “The Bible Today”
  

Memberships:

• Catholic Biblical Association
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
  

Sr. Mary Carroll, S.S.S.F.
DMin., Mundelein Seminary; MA, St. Louis University; MA, Fordham University

Dissertation: “Doorways to the Divine: Meditation and Centering Prayer”

Special interest: Spirituality: Centering prayer, Meditation, Scripture themes, Franciscanism, healing and prayer, Mysticism and the Western classics, especially Teresa of Avila

Publications:

• “Divine Therapy: Teaching Reflective and Meditative Practices,” Teaching Theology and Religion, October 2005.
• "With Love From Calcutta and Lisieux: Letters of Mother Teresa and St. Therese," Review for Religious , July 2005
• “Joseph: Model of Spiritual Parenting,” Review for Religious, December 2003.
• “Jeremiah Speaks for Today,” Human Development, Winter 2002.
• “Religious Life: A Rescue and /or a Crossing over,” Sisters Today, January 2000.

Memberships:

• School Sisters of St. Francis Pastoral Ministry Association
• Contemplative Outreach Association, Milwaukee Chapter
  

Contact : (414) 425-8300 ext.7393
mcarroll@shst.edu

Sr. Marilyn Cowser, O.S.F.
MA, Xavier University

Special interests: teaching modern dance and liturgical dance; African rituals and theology; spiritual direction

Memberships: Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers

Zabrina Decker
JCL, Catholic University; MA, Loyola University

Dissertation: The Role of Vigilance of the Diocesan Bishop with Respect to Association of the Christian Faith”

Special interests: Canon Law for religious institutes, secular institutes and societies of apostolic life

Memberships: Canon Law Society of America

Rev. Jan De Jong, S.C.J.

STL, Angelicum, Rome; STD, Alphonsianum, Rome

Dissertation: “A New Commandment: The Unity of Love of Neighbor and Love of God in Recent Theology.”

Special interest: Bioethics, Fundamental moral theology, Pastoral moral guidance

Publications:

• “Martin Buber: Reaching God Through Love of Man,”
• “Supervision and Theology in CPE,” Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry.
• “Clinical Pastoral Education: A Way of Theological Formation,” Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry.
  

Memberships:

• Catholic Theological Society of America
• Association of Clinical Pastoral Education
  

Contact : (414) 529-6986
jdejong@shst.edu

Mary DeSantis

MA, Sacred Heart School of Theology
Thesis: "You Have in Him a Bridegroom to Love": The Vocation to Consecrated Virginity Lived in the World

MA, Creighton University
Thesis: "God, the Perfect Soulmate"

Special interest: Ignatian spirituality, vocational discernment, 8-day directed retreats, contemplative evocative approach to spiritual direction (English, Spanish)

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext.7394
mdesantis@shst.edu

Eva Diaz
MAPS, St. Francis Seminary

Thesis: “The Church and Undocumented Immigrants: Their Pastoral Care, Our Evangelization.”

Special interest: Parish planning and collaboration

Memberships:

• NCLR
• Wisconsin Catholic Task Force on Labor
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300, ext. 7384
diaze@archmil.org

Sr. Lucille Flores, S.S.M.
MPS, Loyola University; MA, University of Denver

Special interests: Languages, especially Spanish; liturgy

Previous memberships: National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors; National Religious Vocation Conference

Rev. Raúl Gómez Ruiz, S.D.S.
PhD, Catholic University of America; MDiv, Franciscan School of Theology;
MPA, California State University-Sacramento

Dissertation: “Lignum Crucis: The Cross in the Good Friday Celebration of the Hispano-Mozarabic Triduum.”

Special interest: Liturgical theology, Sacramental theology, Hispanic Ministry, Cultural studies, Systems analysis

Publications:

• Article: "Preaching and the Quinceañera," Preaching: Enlivening the Pastoral Art (forthcoming spring 2005).
• Contributor: "Veneration of the Saints and Beati (Chapter 6)" Commentary on the Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy: Principles and Guidelines, ed. Peter C. Phan, Collegeville: Liturgical Press (forthcoming 2005).
• Book Review: The Virgin of Guadalupe: Theological Reflections of an Anglo-Lutheran Liturgist, by Maxwell E. Johnson, Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (forthcoming 2005)
• Article: "Presidential Address: Sacramentality a la Latina," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (forthcoming vol. 11 2005).
• Anthology: Editor, Languages of Worship/El Lenguaje de la Liturgia, 2004
• Book Review: Horizons of the Sacred: Mexican Traditions in I.S. Catholicism, ed. by Timothy Matovina and Gary Riebe-Estrella, SVD, Worship, vol 78, no. 2 (March 2004)
• Book Review: An Inculturation Model of the Catholic Marriage Ritual, by David William Antonio, New Theology Review, vol. 16, no. 4 (November 2003).
• Article: "Liturgia Mozárabe y Religiosidad popular Hispana. Diálogo y Conclusiones," Tolenta, no. 8 (2003).
• Translation: "The Sint Unum in the Ecclesiology of Communion," by Fernando Rodríguez Garrapucho, SCJ, Dehoniana, English ed. (May-August 2002/2), 54-68.
• Translation: "Our Dehonian Religious Life in the Context of 'Refoundation' and New Ecclesiology,"' by Delio Ruiz, SCJ, Dehoniana, English ed. (May-August 2002/2), 130-144.
• Translation: "The Dehonian Religous of Latin America," by Francisco Sehnem, SCJ, Dehoniana, English ed. (May-August 2002/2, 145-158.
• Article: "Blurring the line between liturgy and popular religion: an example from the Hispano-Mozarabic rite," Journal of Latino/Hispano Theology, vol.10, no. 1 (August 2002), 18-36.
Translation: “The Mozarabic Chant Books of Cisneros,” Sacred Music, (forthcoming, vol.128 no.3)Translation: “The Mozarabic Chant Books of Cisneros,” Sacred Music, (forthcoming, vol.128 no.3)
• Article: “La Nueva Instrucción General para el Uso del Misal Romano,” ¡gracias!, (forthcoming Winter 2001)
• Article: “Celebrating the Passage from Death into Life; Celebrando el Pasaje de la Muerte a la Vida,” Liturgia y Canción, (forthcoming Lent/Easter 2002 issue).
• Article: “Beyond Sarapes and Maracas: Liturgical Theology in a Hispanic/Latino Context,” Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, November 2000.
• Article:“Preaching the Rituals Among Hispanics,” Chicago Studies, December 2000.
• Article: “Preaching the Rituals Among Hispanics,” Preaching and Culture in Latino Congregations, comp. & ed. Ken Davis and Jorge L. Presmanes. Chicago: LTP, 2000.
• “El Día de los Muertos: la Vida en la Muerte,” ¡Gracias! Liturgy Training publications, (Fall 1999).
• Anthology: El Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the Catholic Church, co-editor with Dr. Peter Casarella, New York: A Crossroad Herder Book, Crossroad Publishing Co., 1998.
• Article:“Celebrating the Quinceañera as a Symbol of Faith and Culture,” Misa, Mesa, y Musa: Liturgy in the U.S. Hispanic Church, ed. Kenneth G. Davis. Schiller Park, IL. JS Paluch Co., 1997.
• Don y Promesa, Costumbres y Tradiciones en los Ritos Matrimoniales Hispanos; Gift and Promise, Customs and Traditions in Hispanic Rites of Marriage, with Heliodoro Lucatero & Sylvia Sánchez, Washington, D.C.: Instituto de Liturgia Hispana; Portland, Oregon: Oregon Catholic Press, 1997.
  

Memberships:

• Society of the Divine Savior, United States Province, Milwaukee, WI
• Instituto Nacional Hispano de Liturgia (National Hispanic Institute of Liturgy). Past treasurer and president, current advisory board member
• Asociación Nacional de Sacerdotes Hispanos, EE.UU. (National Association of Hispanic Priests)
• American Academy of Religion
• Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States
• Subcommittee on Hispanic Liturgy, Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy, NCCB (1996-99)
• Catholic Theological Society of America
• Honorary Member: Ilustre y Antiquisima Hermandad de Caballeros y Damas Mozárabes de Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza de la Imperial Ciudad de Toledo, Spain
  

Contact: (414) 529-6977
rgomez@shst.edu

Dr. Robert Gotcher
PhD, Marquette University; MA, University of St. Thomas

Dissertation: “Henri de Lubac and Communion: The influence of his theology of the supernatural on the interpretation of Gaudium et Spes.”

Special Interests/ Vatican II; Ecclesiology; Theology of the Body

Responder-Speaker at Marquette University Institute for Natural Family Planning, June 2005

Memberships:

• Catholic Theological Society of America
• North American Patristic Society
• American Academy of Religion
• University Faculty for Life
• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext. 7183
rgotcher@shst.edu

Kathleen Harty
MALS, Dominican University

Thesis: “Jesus the Christ as Creator and Redeemer: A Study of the motive for the Incarnation”

Special Interests: Doctrinal and church history, history of printing, architecture

Memberships:

• American Library Association
• American Theological Association
• Catholic Library Association
• Chicago Area Theological Association
• Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians
• Wisconsin Catholic Library Association

Special interest: Scripture studies; Field education; Christian-Jewish relations

Memberships:

• Society of Biblical Literature
• Catholic Biblical Association
• Association of Theological Mentors
• Association for Theological Field Education
• Catholic Association of Theological Field Education
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext. 7190

Rev. Thomas Knoebel
PhD, Fordham University; MDiv, St. Francis Seminary

Dissertation: “Grace in the Theology of Karl Rahner: A Systematic Presentation.”

Special interest: Systematic theology; Christology; Sacramental theology, Popular speaker at workshops, conferences, parish missions, RCIA groups and continuing education classes

Publications: Work in progress-- English Translation of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis by St. Isidore of Seville (d.636), with “Introduction.”

Memberships:

• American Academy of Religion
• Catholic Theological Society of America
• Archbishop’s Committee on Correct Teaching, Archdiocese of Milwaukee
• Censor of Books, Archdiocese of Milwaukee
• Committee on Correct Teaching – Consultant for Systematic Theology
  

Contact: (414) 529-6984
tknoebel@shst.edu

Rose Kopenec
MA, Sacred Heart School of Theology

Thesis: “Incest and the Paschal Mystery.”

Special interest: Pastoral counseling; Technology; Incest/abuse; Organization management

Memberships:

• American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
• American Academy of Religion
• Learning Resources Network
• Society for the Advancement of Continuing Education in Ministry
• Milwaukee Area Catholic Institutions of Higher Education
• Wisconsin Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers
  

Contact: (414) 529-6974
rkopenec@shst.edu

Rev. Donald Krebs
MA, St. John University

Thesis: “Eucharist, The Sacrament of Reconciliation.”

“Pastoral Ministry to the Divorced and Remarried.”

Special interest: Liturgical music; Vatican II for today’s Catholics; Retreats

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext. 7192

dkrebs@shst.edu

Dr. Richard Lux
PhD, MA, University of Notre Dame

Dissertation: “An Exegetical Study of Micah 1:8-16.”

Special interest: Christian-Jewish relations; Judaism; Holy Land study tours

Recipient of the first Imitatio Dei Award presented by the Catholic-Jewish Conference in November 2000

Fall 2005 resident scholar at the Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John's University

Publications:

• “Catholic Spirituality and the Jewish People in the State of Israel, ” Institute of Judaeo-Christian Studies June 1, 1999, Conference.
• “What is the Christian Relation to the Holy Land.” Digest of Middle East Studies, Spring 1998.
• “Biblical Land Traditions,” The Catholic World, January/February 1991.
• Review: New Theology Review 7 (May 1994) of J. Willebrand's Church and Jewish People, Paulist, 1992.
• Numerous other articles and review
  

Work in Progress New Images for a New Millennium: A Catholic View of the Jewish People, the Holy Land and the State of Israel

Memberships:

• Advisory Committee, Holocaust Education Center, Milwaukee, Association for Jewish Education
• National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel, Vice President
• Milwaukee Association for Interfaith Relations, Founding member
• Catholic Biblical Association
• Society of Biblical Literature
• Advisory Committee, Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations, National Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Catholic Jewish Conference, Milwaukee

Contact: (414) 425-8300, ext 7184
rlux@shst.edu

Dr. Bruce Malchow
PhD, Marquette University; MDiv, STM, Concordia Seminary

Dissertation: “The Roots of Israel’s Wisdom in Sacral Kingship.”

Special interest: Old Testament, especially Wisdom Literature

Special interest: Bioethics, Fundamental moral theology, Pastoral moral guidance

Publications:

• Social Justice in the Hebrew Bible, Liturgical Press, 1996.
• Because He First Loved Us, CSS Publishing Company, 1982.
• “A Manual for Future Monarchs,” Catholic Bibilical Quarterly 47, 1985.
• “The Messenger of the Covenant in Mal 3:1.” Journal of Biblical Literature 103, 1984.
• Numerous other articles and review
  

Memberships:

• Society of Biblical Literature.
  

Rev. Vincent McNally
PhD, University of Dublin, Trinity College; MA, Villanova University;
MSLS, MDiv, Catholic University of America

Dissertation: “Archbishop John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland 1787-1817,” University Press of America, 1995.

Special interest: Irish and Canadian church history; Prison ministry

Publications:

• “Hope for the Future: Facing the Church's Challenges of the New Millennniem,” Centre de Patrimoine, Colloquium, 1999, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2000.
• The Lord's Distant Vineyard: A History of the Oblates and the Catholic Community in British Columbia. Edmonton: The University of Alberta Press, 2000.
• “Challenging the Status Quo: An Examination of the History of Catholic Education in British Columbia,” The Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies, 65 (1999).
• “A Question of Class? Relations between Bishops and Lay Leaders in Ireland and Newfoundland 1783-1807,” The Canadian Catholic Historical Association, Historical Studies, 64 (1998).
• Reform, Revolution and Reaction: Archbishop John Thomas Troy and the Catholic Church in Ireland 1787-1817, University Press of America, 1995.
• A History of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Victoria. Victoria: CANAAP Press, 1990.
• “A Defence of the ‘Durieu System,'” Bulletin, Western Canadian Publishers, 28 (June 1998).
• Education Facsimiles 241-260: Catholic Emancipation, 1793-1829. Belfast Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1976.
• Numerous articles in journals including: Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, Western Oblate Studies, Journal of Church and State, The Catholic Historical Review, Resonance.
  

Works in Progress:

• “An Official History of Sacred Heart School of Theology”
• “A Survey History of the Catholic Church in Ireland from the Reformation to the Present”

Memberships:

• The American Historical Association
• The Irish American Historical Society
• The Canadian Catholic Historical Association
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext.718
vmcnally@shst.edu

Rev. Marcello Neri, S.C.J.
Post Doctoral, Albert-Ludwigs-Univesität; PhD, Albert-Ludwigs-Univesität;
MA, Pontifical University; MA, Educational College, Italy

Post Ph.D: "Theological Questions about the Sacred Heart Devotion in the 20th Century"

Dissertation: "The Witness as Form of the Historical Mediation to God's Revelation in the Flesh of Jesus"

Publications:

• "Eucharist, Priest, Community. The body of Christ Given for all Flesh," Il Regno-Special Issue for the Death of John Paul II, 2005
"Spirituality of the Sacred Heart: Towards a Symbolic Christology," Il Regno Attualita, 2005

"Forms of Grace," Il Regno Attualita, 2004

"Jacques Derrida: Acuteness and Kindness," Il Regno Attualita, 2004

"Symbol, Feeling, Feeling of Guiltness," Lexikon philosophischer Grundbegriffe der Thologie, 2003

"Faith's Structures," La Scuola Cattolica, 2002

“Fides ex Auditu. The Canonical Scriptures as Forma Fidei," La Scuola Cattolica, 2001

The Witness in Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theology: God's Original Event and Faith's Historical Mediation, 2001

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• “Seasons of Grace: Sacramental Preparation for Mentally Handicapped Teens and Adults,” 1991.
• “Growing Together in Jesus: A Program for Adults with Mental Retardation,” 1984.
• “Articles for “Faithworks” and numerous articles on special needs and young adult ministry.
  

Memberships:

• National Conference of Catechetical Leadership
• Milwaukee Archdiocesan Administrators of Catholic Education/Formation
  

Contact: (414) 321-0893
brigid@stmatthias-milw.org

Rev. Andre Papineau, S.D.S.
MA, Catholic University of America; MA, University of Notre Dame

Special interest: Life transitions; Stories and storytelling based on biblical passages

Publications:

• Godawful: Connections Between Biblical Journeys and Life Transitions, Fall 2004
• Jesus Stories for the Losers, The Lost, And The Least, October 2000
• Jesus and the Kingdom of Nobodies, March 2000.
• Passages on the Spiritual Journey, 1999.
• Celebrating Life in Liturgy, May 1998.
• Breaking Up, Down and Through: Discovering Spiritual and Psychological Opportunities in Your Transitions, 1997.
• Holding One Another; Being Separate Together, 1996.
• Transitions Thresholds of Spiritual Awakening, 1994.
• Sermons for Sermon Haters, 1992.
• Let Your Light Shine, 1990.
• Jesus on the Mend, 1989.
• Lightly Goes the Good News, 1989.
• Biblical Blues, 1989
• Breakthrough, 1988
  

Fr. Papineau is a well -known presenter, speaking to audiences throughout the United States on numerous topics but particularly on transitions and storytelling.

Memberships:

• Academy of Homiletics
• Catholic Association of teachers of Homiletics
• C.G. Jung Center of Milwaukee, Board of Directors, co-founder
  

Contact: 414) 425-8300 ext. 7193
apapineau@shst.edu

Barbara Scherrer
MST, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Special interest: Education for the gifted

Memberships:

• Wisconsin Retired Educators Association
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext. 7198

Rev. Robert Schiavone
MA, St. Louis University

Special interests – Parish leadership and management; marriage and family ministry

Memberships:

• Association for Theological Field Education
• Catholic Association for Theological Field Education
• Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education

Dr. Steven Shippee
PhD, Marquette University; MA, University of Notre Dame

Dissertation: “Faith and History in Contemporary Catholic Christology: The Jesus of History in Balthasar and Schillebeeckx.”

Special interest: Christology; Ecclesiology; Contextual theologies; Hermeneutics

Publications:

• “Prophetic Voices in Priestly Places: The Challenge of critical Theology in a Changing Seminary Context,” Seminary Journal. Winter 2001.

Memberships:

• College Theology Society
• Catholic Theological Society of America

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext./ 7191
sshippee@shst.edu

Sally Smits
MBA, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Special interest: Strategic planning in higher education

Memberships:

• National Association of College and University Business Officers
• Board of Directors, Central Association of College and University Business Officers
• Economic Development Commission for the City of Franklin, Wisconsin
• Professional Dimensions

Contact: (414) 529-6971
ssmits@shst.edu

Rev. C. Michael Weldon, O.F.M.
DMin, Catholic Theological Union at Chicago; MDiv, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley; MA, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley

DMin Dissertation: “Church Consolidation & Closure: Mentoring Reconciliation through Ritual"

MA Thesis: “Franciscan Spirituality and Troubadour Song"

Publications:

• "Folding Up the Tents," New Theology Review Volume 19, Number 2, May 2006
• A Struggle for Holy Ground: Reconciliation and the Rites of Parish Closure, Liturgical Press, Fall 2004; 2005 Catholic Press Association 3rd Place Award recipient
• "Principals of Franciscan Liturgy," Santa Barbara Province Liturgy Committee, May 2003
• “Can Sunday Mass Survive?" Emmanuel, December 2002
• “Reconciliation and Parish Closure," Westfriars - Publications for the Franciscans Friars of California
• "Syn-Notes," Pastoral Outreach, Service and the Synod. A Preparation Document for Diocesan Synod, Diocese of Phoenix
  

Contact: (414) 425-8300 ext. 7386
mweldon@shst.edu