Born in Burbank CA in 1958, Paul earned a B.A. in History from ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ in 1980. Two years later he entered the Jesuits at Montecito CA. He studied at the Hochschule fuer Philosophie in Munich, Germany, from 1984-1986, earning a Ph.B. and then taught French and German as a regent at Jesuit High School, Sacramento.
He earned an M.Div. degree (1991) and a Licentiate at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge MA (1993). After a short stint as an adjunct lecturer at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, he attended the University of Paris IV - La Sorbonne - for a Docteur ès Lettres in the Sociology of Religion and simultaneously earned a Pontifical Doctorate in Ecclesiology at the Institut Catholique de Paris.
He served as an Assistant, then Associate Professor, Associate and then Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ (1997-2008). He was Provost and Professor at Fairfield University, Connecticut for five years. He was USF 28th president, serving from 2014 to 2024.
Currently he is a faculty member at the Jesuit School of Theology of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. His areas of research and teaching include Practical Theology, Historical Ecclesiology, Theology of the Laity, Catholic Social Doctrine, and other questions of Contextual and Systematic Theology.
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- Theological Project
Book:
L'Église comme lieu de formation d'une conscience de la concitoyenneté. Lille, France: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1999.
Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
“Private property, the market, and the common good – The Global Financial Crisis seen through the lens of Catholic Social Doctrine,” in The Global Financial Crisis: Values, Behavioral Finance, Social Justice, Oxford University Press, 2016, 399–412.
“Finding God in All Things: an Ignatian Environmental Ethos,” in Habiter le monde selon le désir de Dieu - Melanges Medevielle. Desclee de Brouwer: Paris, 2015, 181-194.
“Married in the Eyes of God: a Spirituality for Inter-faith Marriage” in INTAMS Companion to Marital Spirituality. Peeters: Leuven 2008, 327-342.
“Seduction” in The Encyclopedia of Love in the World Religions. Ed. Yudit Kornberg Greenberg. ABC-Clio (2007), II, 539-542.
“Cathédrales des temps presents: San Francisco” Etudes 4,024 (April 2005) 520-522.
“Arnold au pays des merveilles.” Projet 279 (March 2004) 77-78.
“The Americanization of Europe?” “Amerykanizacja Europy?” Horyzonty Wychowania 14 (2/2002) 195-223. Reprinted as a book chapter entitled “Amerykanizacja Europy?” in Czlowiek w jednoczacek sie Europie. Krakow: Ignatianum, 2004, 103-114.
"Aux USA, la culture populaire des jeunes." Mission de l'Eglise - Le Supplément 136 (July-September 2002) 36-39.
"Quand la doctrine sociale Catholique rencontre la religion civile Nord-Américaine sur l'économique." Revue d'éthique et de théologie morale- Le Supplément 220 (March 2002) 79-99.
"ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ and the Jesuit Tradition of Education." In Telling the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Story: Sesquicentennial Voices (ed. Russell Skowronek; ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½: City of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ and ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, 2002) 105-118.
With Kieran Sullivan, "Preparing for Marriage: What Pastoral Marital Counselors Should Know About Religious Belief, Psychological Health, and Marital Outcome." International Academy for Marital Spirituality (INTAMS) Review 7 (2001) 68-77.
"Doing Theology in the City." Crosscurrents 51 (2001) 83-94.
"Faithful Sociology: Peter Berger's Religious Project." Religious Studies Review 27 (2001) 10-17.
"La spiritualité des jeunes Américains: Culture pop et quête religieuse." Christus 187 (2000) 375-82.
"Zonder Dialoog Geen Communio - Een Initiatief Van Kardinaal Bernardin." Streven 67 (4 2000) 312-20.
"A Christian Ethos for Multicultural Marriage." International Academy for Marital Spirituality (INTAMS) Review 5 (Spring, 1999) 27-35.
"A Model for Dialogue: Cyprian of Carthage on Ecclesial Discernment." Theological Studies 59 (1998) 236-53.
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