Academy Meeting in Toronto
January 3-7, 2007
Candidate for NAAL Delegate for Membership: William C. Graham
William C. Graham, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth in Minnesota where
he served for 10 years as a pastor, is professor of Theology and Religious
Studies and director of the emerging Braegelman Catholic Studies program
at Duluth’s College of St. Scholastica. He had been chair of
the Theology Department at Lewis University in suburban Chicago and founded
the Master of Arts program in pastoral ministry at Caldwell College in
New Jersey. He was director of liturgy at St. Paul the Apostle Parish,
the mother church of the Paulist Fathers at Columbus Circle in New York
City. He was the Bookshelf columnist for the National
Catholic Reporter. His publications include Paulist Press’s
popular Catholic Wedding Book. The second edition
of his Sacred Adventure: Beginning Theological Study was
released in April by the University Press of America. He is co-editor
with Timothy Backous, OSB, of Common Good, Uncommon Questions:
A Primer in Moral Theology, released by The Liturgical Press. His Half
Finished Heaven: The Social Gospel in American Literature was
published by University Press of America in 1995. Also, he has edited More
Urgent Than Usual: The Final Homilies of Mark Hollenhorst, published
by The Liturgical Press in 1995. He holds the B.A. from the University
of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN, the M.A. from St. John’s University
in Collegeville, Minnesota, and an M.A. in Liturgy from the University
of Notre Dame, as well as the Ph.D. in historical theology from Fordham,
the Jesuit University of New York City.
Encouraged by former NAAL President Doris Donnelly to seek this office, he believes that membership in the Academy is both a privilege and a responsibility; working with the members of the committee to bring more partners to dialogue is a task he would be pleased to share.