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Clergy Sexual Abuse And The Catholic Church: What Do We Know And Where Do We Need To Go?, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

Few recent topics have received the kind of media attention, heated debate, and discussion than the topic of sex-offending clergy, their victims, and supervisors. It is a story about too many bishops (and priests) behaving badly when they are purported to be the moral, religious, and ethical leaders of society. It is a remarkable story. However, it is a complex story that has had little scholarship and discourse driven by thoughtfulness, civility, and reason.

Explore, Spring 2003, Vol. 6, No. 2: Vocation, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Discovering the Path: Santa Clara's New Initiative on Vocation; Is Engineering My Vocation?; Vocation as Occupation, Inclination, and Parental Influence; Confessions; Vocation of Presence; An Ignatian Faculty Forum; Bannan Grant Report: Entering Personal and Global Converations: Linked Classes in Xavier RLC 32; Justice Conference Report ; Globalization Conference Report; Coming Events; Santa Clara Lecture; Western Conversations; Next Issue

Explore, Fall 2003, Vol. 7, No. 1: War, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Preemptive War: The legal and moral implications of the Bush and Rumsfeld doctrines; Civil Liberties in the U.S.: Why they matter in a post-9/11 world; The Consequences of War: Iraq, a case study; A Dialog: War and Peace in the 21st Century; Ethics and War in Comparative Religious Perspective; Middle East Anthropology and the Preemptive Strike”One American's painful journey; Bannan Grant Report: Clergy Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: What do we know and where do we need to go?; Coming Events; Santa Clara Lecture; Bannan Center ; Next Issue

Psychological Consultation With The Roman Catholic Church: Integrating Who We Are With What We Do, Thomas G. Plante

Psychology

The purpose of this article is to detail one professional's experience in developing a close and collaborative professional working relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. This article highlights the integration of one's religious tradition with professional activities that are congruent, including assessment, psychotherapy, research and writing. Three principles for effective collaboration with clergy are presented: understand the faith tradition, develop a shared language, and expand the boundaries of professional activities.

Explore, Fall 2002, Vol. 6, No. 1: Globalization, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Globalization and Localization: New Dilemma for National Cultures; Globalizing the World: Linking Integration and Solidarity; Reflections of Globalization; Sweatshops in a Global Economy; Can Globalization Green the World? Reflections on Globalization and the Environment; Globalization and Development: Some Personal Reflections; The Akbar Project: Ritual Observances and Religious Pluralism in Contemporary Pakistan; Call for Grants; Bannan Grants; Coming Events; Conference: Globalization as Seen from the Developing World; Santa Clara Lectures; Bannan Visitor; Next Issue

Explore, Spring 2002: Religious Imagination, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Hotly in the pursuit of the real: the Catholic writer; Really, really dark: inventing the Catholic novel; Polluted protagonists and the enduring appeal of a Catholic imagination; Faith and the theater: Colleagues enchanting the World; The rich boy project; The paradise within: Gardens, healing, and spiritual growth; A Dialog & Design Grant report: The forgiveness reading group

Explore, Winter 2001, Vol. 4, No. 2: The Impact Of Women On Jesuit Higher Education, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Jesuits and Women: An Historic Commitment; Mixed Company: Women at Santa Clara; Santa Clara Women Faculty: A Composite View of Our Experience; The Program for the Study of Women and Gender; Working Out a Balance; Assessing the Roles of Gender in College Students' Evaluations of Faculty; Tradition Shattered; Coming Events: Lecture Series, Bannan Visitor; Bannan Grants; Next Issue

Explore, Fall 2001: 40th Anniversary Of The Second Vatican Council, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Post-Vatican II Catholics; Vatican II: Sources, Achievement, and Unfinished Business; American Catholicism and World Politics: The Second Vatican Council and the Cold War; Moral Theology After Vatican II; Living Our Faith: Ministry in the New Millenium; A Reflection on Vocation in the Light of Vatican II; Faith and Health: What Do We Know?; Biblical Hermeneutics From Vatican II Onward

Explore, Spring 2001: The Commitment To Justice In Jesuit Higher Education, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: The University That Does Justice; The Pursuit of Justice in Public Life; Academic Institutions as Citizens for Justice; American Jesuit Higher Education for Faith and Justice; In their own words: Four conference delegates reflect on educating for justice; Hard Goals

Religious Faith And Mental Health Outcomes, Thomas G. Plante, Naveen K. Sharma

Psychology

In this chapter we review recent research regarding the relationship between religious faith/spirituality and mental health outcomes, as well as provide directions for future research and discussion. The specific aspects of mental health and illness that we focus on include well-being, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and schizophrenia. We also briefly discuss research pertaining to religious faith and personality disorders, eating disorders, somatoform disorders, and bipolar disorder.

Explore, Fall 2000: The School Of Engineering, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: A just design: An incentive for SCU Senior engineers to pursue projects that relate to conscience and compassion; Diversity on the School of Engineering; The human dimension of engineering; Social justice issues in civul/public works engineering projects; Improving the diversity of our technology workforce; The Ratio Studiorum and New Technology: Opportunities and Challenges; Next issue

Explore, Winter 2000: Justice In The World Of Business, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Can We Feed the World? Justice in Food and Agribusiness; Ethics and Justice in Marketing; Fairness in Finance; Leading People So They Treat Each Other Justly in the Workplace; The Quest for Justice as a Source of Evil; Business, Justice and the Withholding Tax; One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America

Explore, Spring 2000: Justice And The American Jesuit University, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Jesuit Activities in Focus: Justice and the American Jesuit University; Telling Tales: Unexpected Journeys into Interconnectedness; My Mother's Legacy: Trying to Make a Difference Through Teaching and Research; "I Am Only One, but Still I Am One": A Hunger for Justice; Why Do I Live In African Villages; The Gift of "Presence": Reflections on Jesuit Values in the Classroom; Teaching Compassion Philosophically; Spelling Justice in Sanskrit; My Journey into the World of Justice Research; Coming Events: Spirituality Series, Bannan Visitor; Next Issue

Explore, Winter 1999: Psychology And Religion, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Dear Readers; Letter From the Director; The Psychoanalyst and the Exorcist: Perspectives on Psychology and Religion; Interlacing Psychotherapy and Religion: Clinical Perspectives; A new Rapprochment between Psychology and Religion; The Shared Terrain of Psychology and Spirituality: An Interview with Gerdenio Manuel, S.J.; A unitarian Reflects; Being Muslim in a Catholic University; SCU's Jesuit Identity in the Eyes of a Non-Christian Professor; Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: The Strength of a Jesuit Education; Reflections of a Jewish Faculty Member at SCU; The Investment of My Life: My Santa Clara Experience; Book review: Making Disciples, A Handbook of Christian Moral Formation; Coming …

Explore, Spring 1999: Faith And Culture, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Director; Cultural Understanding in Jesuit Education: A Pedagogy of Engagement; The Emerging Role of Service Learning at Jesuit Universities; Cuba Experience and Jesuit Education; Cuba and the Jesuits: Fidel's Teachers Come Back to Life; A Conversation with Ron Hansen; Book review: Religion and Prime Time Television; Coming Events: Lecture Series, Spirituality Series, Bannan Visitor; Next Issue

Explore, Fall 1999: Justice, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter From the Director; Justice in the Law School Curriculum; Justice in the Law School Tradition; Faith Doing Justice; Contrasting Justice, Law School, and the Christian Faith; The Mark of a Jesuit Education; Justice is the End; Engagement in the Pursuit of Justice; My Journey to Justice; Coming Events / Next Issue

A Proposed Psychological Assessment Protocol For Applicants To Religious Life In The Roman Catholic Church, Thomas G. Plante, Marcus T. Boccaccini

Psychology

This paper proposes a psychological assessment protocol for applicants to religious life in the Roman Catholic church. While most Catholic religious orders, seminaries, and dioceses require applicants to complete some type of psychological evaluation prior to entrance into seminary, there is no established standard or protocol suggested for conducting these evaluations. The current proposed assessment protocol provides those conducting or receiving these evaluations with a comprehensive foundation from which they can add or delete components to meet their specific needs. Furthermore, the utilization of a standard clergy assessment protocol creates the opportunity for the establishment of a national database useful …

Explore, Spring 1998: Jesuits And The Sciences, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Mission and Core Values; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist; Jesuit Activities in Focus: Jesuits and the Sciences; Both a Jesuit and a Physicist; Majoring in Physics: The Reward and the Risk; Checkup with Dr. Marc Tunzi; Book review: The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention; Bannan Visitor Criteria; Visiting Fellows; Contributions of German and American Jesuits to Economics; Bannan Grant Criteria; Grant Recipients; Coming Events: Spirituality Series, Lecture Series; Next Issue

Explore, Fall 1998: Jesuits And Academic Culture, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: In Memoriam: Louis I. Bannan, S.J.; Letter from the Director; Phylum Universitatis, Genus, Catholicus: A Field Guide; In Response to: Phylum . . . A Field Guide; Jesuit Activities in Focus: Jesuit Undergraduate Education as Catholic; Reflections of a Non-Catholic at Santa Clara University; Who Is My Neighbor? HIV/AIDS”My Wake-Up Call; Book reviews: Cultivating Humanity - A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Who Killed Homer: The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom; Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America; Amazing Grace; Grant Recipients; Visiting Appointments; Coming Events: Lecture …

Explore, Winter 1998: Spirituality, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter from the Institute Director; Lou I. Bannan, S.J. Appointment; Advisory Board Members; Winter - The Journey Inward; Breaking Down the Dividing Wall of Hostility; Give Me Only Your Love; Bannan Visiting Fellow: Joseph J. Feeney, S.J.; The Conference on Mission and Identity

Explore, Fall 1997: Bannan Center (Institute), Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Director's Message; The Origins of the Bannan Center (Institute); History of the Bannan Family; Visiting Scholar; Steering Committee; Bannan Fellows Speak Out; Jesuit Activities in Focus; Lecture Series; Mission Statement Draft; College Education and the Jesuit Tradition; Book Reviews of: Mark R. Schwehn, Philip Gleason, Charles R. Morris; Next Issue

Personality Characteristics Of Successful Applicants To The Priesthood, Thomas G. Plante, Gerdenio Manuel, Jeannette Tandez

Psychology

This study investigated personality characteristics of successful pastoral candidates to a major Catholic religious order. Personality measures (i.e., MMPI-2 and 16PF) were administered to 21 male applicants between 1990 and 1994 who subsequently entered into religious life. Results suggest that these clergy applicants were generally well-adjusted, socially responsible, and interpersonally sensitive. However, results also suggest a tendency for defensiveness. Coping with perceived negative impulses (i.e., anger and hostility) may also be an issue for many. Implications for future research are offered.

The Foot Washing (John 13:1-20): An Experiment In Hermeneutics, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

The following paragraphs are intended not only as a valid exegesis of the dialogue between Jesus and Simon Peter during the foot washing (John 13:6-10) but also as an experiment in interpretation. This experiment, which will consist essentially in bringing a plurality of methods, both historical and non-historical, to bear upon the text, will begin with a brief statement of hermeneutical presuppositions which are drawn, primarily, from the work of H.-G. Gadamer and P. Ricoeur. In a second section these presuppositions will operate in the use of a variety of methods to interpret the J ohannine text. In the final …

Women And Priestly Ministry: The New Testament Evidence, Sandra Marie Schneiders, Catholic Biblical Association Of America. Task Force

Jesuit School of Theology

In August 1976 the Executive Board of the Catholic Biblical Association of America appointed a committee of prominent scholars from its membership to study and report on the Role of Women in Early Christianity. This Committee developed into a Task Force whose members are Madeleine Boucher, Richard J Dillon, John R Donahue, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Eugene H Maly, Sandra M Schneiders, and Richard J Sklba. The statement is a précis of the ongoing discussion of the Task Force. Their conclusion: an examination of the biblical evidence shows that there is positive evidence in the NT that ministries were shared by …

American And Catholic: The Premature Synthesis Of The San Francisco Irish, Robert M. Senkewicz

History

The tension between the terms "American" and "Catholic,, is at least as old as the 1840s, when large numbers of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States. The attempts of American Catholics through the succeeding 130 years to resolve that tension has spawned, in our day an increasingly sophisticated body of American Catholic history. But since the tension has been so pervasive, engaging theological, philosophical, political, and social issues, there seems to be little danger that we shall ever fully comprehend it (and thus put the historians concerned with it out of business!)

One of the most important complicating factors …