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JAMES CARROLL |
BISHOP PATRICIA FRESEN. Born in South Africa on 7 December 1940 of an Irish Catholic mother and German Catholic father, Patricia was the oldest of twelve children. She attended Catholic schools run by Dominican sisters. She entered the novitiate of the King William's Town Dominicans in January 1958. A few years later she went to College and then University, where she completed an Arts degree and qualified as a teacher. For many years Patricia taught in various Dominican Convent High Schools and was School Principal for seventeen of those years.During this time, the Dominican sisters became very involved in justice issues as they started opening their schools to children of all races, thereby breaking the law of the country.They were dangerous years, but they helped to prepare Patricia for the present struggle for justice for women in which she has become involved. At the age of 39, Patricia was given the opportunity to go to Rome to study theology. She completed the Baccalaureus Theol. and then the Licentiate in Theology.Her dissertation was on the topic of Liberation Theology as applied to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Patricia was ordained as a priest during a private ceremony in Barcelona on 7 August 2003.Her whole life's journey had led up to this point. |
MICHAEL MORWOOD For 28 years,MichaelMorwood served as a Sacred Heart priest in Victoria, Australia, active in adult education, retreat, and youth ministries. Since 1990 he has worked in adult faith formation in almost every diocese of Australia.He has anMA in Pastoral Ministry from Boston College.Without the due process of theological investigation Morwood was warned by his religious superiors not to speak on the topics of Incarnation, Redemption, and the Trinity, which had been the core of his 1997 book, Tomorrow's Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a NewMillennium.He was silenced in February 1998, by the Archbishop ofMelbourne,George Pell, the most conservative of papal watchdogs.His religious order then sentMorwood to Sydney, only to find that the ban on him was moveable. By episcopal fiat, he found himself virtually unemployable.He resigned from his priesthood of 29 years.Since that time,Michael Morwood has been busy on the international circuit talking about the very ideas the Archbishop refused to consider. Tomorrow's Catholic has proved to be a popular book in adult faith groups. Since 1998,Morwood has written three more popular books, Is Jesus God (Crossroads, 2001) and Praying the New Story (2004) and From Sand to Solid Ground. In the first book, he asks the necessary questions about fall/redemption theology. Did the first humans cause a major disruption in their relationship to God? Did God really want Jesus to die to fix this broken relationship? In what way was Jesus, the itinerant rabbi of the first century, “God?”What can it mean for contemporary Catholics operating out of a brand new cosmic story when the Vatican says that the church is reliant on Jesus being "an innocent lamb meriting life for us by his blood which he freely shed?' The author believes that contemporary theologians are not undermining Christian life and in fact the “good news” can become “better news.” |
JASON MCCOOL Jason McCool is originally from Brockton, MA. Jason holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (jazz trumpet) and the University of Maryland(musicology). Now a part of the vibrant theater community of Washington, DC, Jason’s recent work includes the title role in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, by Stephen Adly Guirgis, named as the “Audience Favorite Play” for 2008 on DCTheatreScene.com, and remounted last December after a successful run the previous Spring. Other favorite work includes Scenes from the Big Picture (Solas Nua—Helen Hayes Award nomination for ensemble), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Catalyst Theater—winner, Helen Hayes Award for ensemble), and Dancing at Lughnasa (T. Schreiber Studio). Jason studied acting at the T. Schreiber Studio in NYC and The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory in DC, where he also recently completed a six-month directing seminar with Studio Theatre founder Joy Zinoman. Jason thanks CORPUS for this great opportunity, and his family for their continual support. |
James Carroll was born in Chicago in 1943 and raised inWashington,DC, where his father, an Air Force general, served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Carroll attended Georgetown University before entering the seminary to train for the Catholic priesthood.He received BA and MA degrees from St. Paul's College, the Paulist Fathers' seminary inWashington, and was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in 1969. Carroll served as Catholic Chaplain at Boston University from 1969 to 1974.
