Congratulations to Celia Asbell, MPS ’19, for receiving the Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award!
The Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award recognizes excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service in a graduate from the Loyola Institute for Ministry.
Congratulations to Mary F. Kovacs Foy, MPS ’19, for receiving the Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award!
The Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award recognizes excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service in a graduate from the Loyola Institute for Ministry.
Congratulations to Susie Vollenweider, MPS ’19, for receiving the Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award!
The Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award recognizes excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service in a graduate from the Loyola Institute for Ministry.
Congratulations to Daniel Mercado, MRE ’19, for receiving the Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award!
The Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award recognizes excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service in a graduate from the Loyola Institute for Ministry.
Congratulations to Melissa Ewing, MPS ’19, for receiving the Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award!
The Loyola Institute for Ministry Scholar Award recognizes excellence in Scholarship, Leadership and Service in a graduate from the Loyola Institute for Ministry.
Melissa’s final project for her degree focused on the faith development of mothers in her parish community. She worked to help mothers develop spiritual agency by connecting their vocation with the motherhood of the Holy Trinity.
Brandy Burgess, who graduated with her Master of Religious Education degree in 2019, will be putting her degree to work as she embraces two new positions. Brandy was hired as the Education Technology Specialist for Bishop Manogue Catholic High School in Reno, NV. As Ed Tech, she will be facilitating the school’s 1:1 transition. Beginning with the freshman class, students will engage with class materials via their own personal device. An eventual goal is to offer courses for students online.
Diana is the Young Adult Minister at St. Angela Merici Parish in Youngstown, Ohio, where she has been serving for the last 3 1/2 years. She earned a master’s degree in Pastoral Studies from LIM and has worked in parish young adult ministry and evangelization for the past 10 years.
This National Advisory Team provides ongoing input and feedback on young adult ministry to the bishops, offers pastoral support to parish and diocesan leaders in the field, and develops a national coalition of young adult ministry leaders.
Michael A. Cowan, Ph.D., will be engaged in a collaborative project in the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion (CSSC) in the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography at Oxford University which has recently appointed him a Research Affiliate. This project will build upon his study of how communities facing deep conflict—which is characterized by distrust and power imbalances and structured along racial, ethnic, religious, national, and class divides—are able to cross group boundaries to address chronic conflict.
LIM Director Tom Ryan, project manager Sarah DeMarais, and student Sr. Mary Dolores Urassa, CDNK recently presented at the University of Notre Dame’s Catholic Social Tradition conference in South Bend, IN.
The presentation “Forming Women Religious as Agents of the Catholic Social Tradition” highlighted learnings and successes of LIM’s project “Catholic Sisters in Partnership for Sustainability,” funded by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
LIM graduate and adjunct faculty member Dr. Deborah Wilhelm has authored a chapter in the new book Effective Preaching: Bringing People into an Encounter with God. The book grew out of presentations at the 2017 Marten Preaching Conference at Notre Dame. Her contribution is entitled "'Murder Your Darlings': How to Edit for Effective Preaching." The quotation in the title is a reference to the writing advice Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch delivered in a lecture at Cambridge University.