CUA

 

 

The  Catholic University of America

 

School of Philosophy

  

 

Formation of the Fulton J. Sheen Center in the School of Philosophy

With the approval of the president, the Very Reverend David O’Connell, and the provost, Professor James Brennan, the School of Philosophy is pleased to announce that the Fulton J. Sheen Center is being formed within the school for the advancement of teaching and learning excellence in philosophy.

 

The Fulton J. Sheen Center will house current and expanded programs of the School of Philosophy for the formation of its doctoral students who serve as graduate instructors within the university.  Its director is the Rev. Kurt Pritzl, O.P., dean of the school, and its program director is Dr. Marian Brady, S.P.  When it is fully established, the Sheen Center will also offer lectures, conferences, and other programs in the teaching and learning of philosophy and support graduate students and junior faculty members of the School of Philosophy in their development as scholar-teachers.

 

The Fulton J. Sheen Center is named for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the great teacher of the nation and innovative communicator on radio and in the early days of television, who was a professor in the School of Philosophy for almost twenty-five years from 1926 until 1950.   The School of Philosophy continues the tradition of classical and Thomistic philosophical learning that was the basis for Archbishop Sheen’s prodigious accomplishments and unsurpassed success as a teacher, writer, and broadcaster.

 

Support for the full establishment of the Fulton J. Sheen Center within the School of Philosophy in Aquinas Hall on the campus of the university is a special project of the Board of Advisors, the development and advancement committee of the School of Philosophy, comprised of eighteen distinguished leaders in business and the professions.

 

 

September 9, 2008