Veritas - Spring/Summer 2002 Newsletter - Volume1, Number 2

Local Girl Makes Good & Other Publishing Milestones for Faculty, Alumni & Students

The Library and Bookstore are making room - for the faculty, alumni and graduate students who have published books on subjects from Islam to spirituality in counseling. Jennie Weiss Block's book, Copious Hosting: A Theology of Access for People with Disabilities, is already a collector's item on the net.

The Department was well represented among the authors honored at the Monsignor William Barry Library on April 15th's Third Annual Barry Authors Reception. Among the faculty's work: Mr. Charles Cassini Islam, Claims and Counterclaims; Dr. Mary Jo Iozzio (editor), Considering Religious Traditions in Bioethics: Christian and Jewish Voices; Fr. John O'Grady, Catholic Beliefs and Traditions: Ancient and Ever New - which will be used as a text in the new foundational Theology 201 course; Dr. Len Sperry (DMin 2001), Spirituality in Clinical Practice: Incorporating the Spiritual Dimension in Psychotherapy and Counseling; and graduate students Nancy Maxwell, Alternatives to Filters; and Jennie Block, Founding Director of the Center for Dominican Studies.

In other news...

Vigen Guroian Closes 2002 Bioethics Lecture Series

Dr. Vigen Guroian, Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Baltimore, gave a spirited talk on using the moral imagination to fill our lives with meaning. Dr. Guroian has written on many diverse topics, including Tending the Heart of Virtue, on awakening the moral imagination of children, and Meditations on Gardening.