The Brother John G. Driscoll Professorship
in Jewish-Catholic Studies

The Br. John G. Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies was inaugurated during the celebration of the Christian Jubilee. Two programs addressed the theme of Jubilee and it's relation to Jewish-Catholic studies.

1. Scholarly Presentation: Realism and Idealism in Biblical Thought: The Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee; lecture delivered by Dr. Alan Cooper, Jewish and Union Theological Seminaries, November 1999.

2. Teshuva: An Interfaith Service of Rememberance, Repentance and Reconciliation was sponsored by the Professorship in response to Pope John Paul's call to Catholics to reflect on the history of pain suffered by the Jewish people at the hands of Christians. Students, faculty and adminstrators participated in this powerful service that included a partial naming of the children who perished in the death camps during the Shoah. Spring Semester 2000.

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