Thursday, April 29, 2010

Dean Brackley, S.J.

Today, The University of Scranton honored Dean Brackley, S.J. of the University of Central America Jose Simeon Canas with the 2010 Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Award for distinguished contributions to Ignation mission and ministries.

Father Brackley is a professor of Theology and Philospohical Ethics.  He currently serves as the rector of the UCA in San Salvador, a position he has held since he volunteered to go to El Salvador following the deaths of the six Jesuit martys in 1989.

Father Arrupe was the twenty eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus, serving from 1965 until 1983.  In speaking of education, Arrupe said
  
Today our prime educational objective must be to form men-and-women-for-others; men and women who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ—for the God-human who lived and died for all the world; men and women who cannot even conceive of love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men and women completely convinced that love of God which does not issue in justice for others is a farce. (Pedro Arrupe: Essential Writings, Kevin Burke, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books 2004, p. 173)



A well-deserved honor.  Congratulations.