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Active Membership Applications 2025-2026

Last name	First name	DegreeofSacredTheology	DegreeYear	GrantingInstitution	DissertationTitle	Membership level
Ahanihu	Sr. Chioma	Doctor of Ministry (D.Min)	2024	Catholic Theological Union	Religious Women as Global Migrants to the United States: Critical Conversations about Spirituality, Mental Health, and Vocational Identity.	Active Member Applicant
Antonio	Melicia Marie Lundy	Ph.D. - Moral Theology / Christian Ethics	2025	University of Notre Dame	The Renewal of Moral Authority Through Audacious Prudence: Lessons from the Experience of Cardinal Vicente Enrique y Tarancón	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Barry	Wayne	Ph.D. - Education	2008	University of Virginia	Emotional Intelligence and Relational Trust	Active Member Applicant
Boguszewski	Mariusz	Ph.D. - Theology	2017	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw, Poland)	Media Communication in the Pastoral Care of the Drohiczyn Diocese. A Theological and Pastoral Study.	Active Member Applicant
Carney	Jay	Ph.D. - Church History	2011	Catholic University of America	"From Democratization to Ethnic Revolution: Catholic Politics in Rwanda, 1950-1962" (published as Rwanda Before the Genocide: Catholic Politics and Ethnic Discourse in the Late Colonial Era)	Active Member Applicant
Cipolla-McCulloch	Caitlin	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	2025	University of Dayton	Mary As Nurturer: A New Model for Contemporary Times	Active Member Applicant
Cohen	Will	Ph.D. - Systematic & Historical Theology	2010	The Catholic University of America	The Concept of 'Sister Churches' in Catholic-Orthodox Relations since Vatican II	Active Member Applicant
Condyles	Christina	Ph.D. - Liturgical Studies / Sacramental Theology	2024	The Catholic University of America	Sacramental Personhood: Forming Identity through the Sacraments of Initiation	Active Member Applicant
Cornish	Sandra	PHD - Practical Theology	2016	Australian Catholic University	How Catholic Social Teaching and Ignatian Spirituality interact within the Praxis of the Jesuit Conference Asia Pacific Social Apostolate Network in relation to Vulnerable Migrants in and from Asia	Active Member Applicant
Cremer	Douglas	Ph.D. - History	1993	University of California, San Diego	"Cross and Hammer: The Catholic Workingmen's and Workingwomen's Associations in Germany, 1891-1933" https://www.proquest.com/openview/214ccef6e031b1441c6d79b3624eee1c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y	Active Member Applicant
da Silva Monteiro	Sonia	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	2026	Fordham University	"Forgiveness: The Human-Divine Ladder in the Abyss of Sin: A Philosophical, Theological and Political Investigation"	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
DeBrabander	Firmin	Ph.D. - Philosophy	2002	Emory University	Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Passion, Politics	Active Member Applicant
Diaz	Israel	Doctor of Ministry (D.Min)	2019	Barry University	Can Digital Technology Enhance Christian Religious Education? Exploring the Efficacy of Digital Pedagogical Methods at St. Thomas Aquinas High School.	Active Member Applicant
Duggan Lemos	Catherine	Ph.D. - Moral theology	2025	University of Notre Dame	Positive Human Law and the Cultivation of Civic Virtue, Contemporary and Thomistic	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Fortier	William	Doctor of Ministry (D.Min)	1994	Andover Newton Theological School	Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Direction: An Experimental Integration	Active Member Applicant
Groth	Rev. Benjamin	Ph.D. - History	2025	Tulane University	The Black Sacrament: How Baptism Created Race in New Orleans and the Atlantic World	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Hayes-Mota	Nicholas	Ph.D. - Theological Ethics	2024	Boston College	Practicing the Common Good: Catholic Social Thought, Community Organizing, and the Virtues of Democratic Politics	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Holland, II	M. Roger	Ph.D. - Pastoral Music	2025	Perkins School of Theology, SMU	Voice of My People: An Expression of Welcome and Liturgical Justice in North American Catholiicism	Active Member Applicant
Hunt	Jodi	Ph.D. Religious Education	2017	Fordham Univeristy	Exposing the Darkness — (Re)Lighting the Way: Cyberbullying as a Religious Educational Issue in aCatechetical Context	Active Member Applicant
Lim	Joshua	Ph.D. - History of Christianity / Medieval	2020	University of Notre Dame	Vidimus eum plenum gratiae et veritatis: Thomas Aquinas on the Co-Assumed Perfections	Active Member Applicant
Mathy	Pamela	Ph.D. - Christian Spirituality	2026	Oblate School of Theology	“Re-enchanting Life and the World: The Radical Challenge of Contemplative Practice in a Secular Age.”	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
McKay	Meredith	Doctor of Ministry (D.Min)	2025	Emory University - Candler School of Theology	Ministry in the Messy Middle: Developing an Approach for Implementation of Trauma-Informed Care in the College Campus Ministry Context	Active Member Applicant
McLaughlin, S.J.	Brett	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	2025	Boston College	A Reign over Envy: The Kingdom of God's overturn of Conflictual Desire	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
McLean	Tom	Ph.D. - Sacramental Theology	2025	KU Leuven	Liturgy: Given, Celebrated, Internalized: Connecting Theology, Performance and Prayer in the Sacramental Vision of Edward Schillebeeckx	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Middleton	Kate Kelly	Ph.D. - Religion and Culture	2025	Catholic University of America	Cultivating Hope and Fear: an Applied Christian-Muslim Comparative Theological Framework	Active Member Applicant
O'Beirne	Ann-Maree	Ph.D. - Ecological Theology	2025	Australian Catholic University	Graced Encounters in the Community of Creation: An Ignatian Motif of "Finding God in All Things" for Twenty-First Century Theology	Active Member Applicant
Onyumbe	Jacob	ThD - Theology / Old Testament	2017	Duke University Divinity School	Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses. Reading Prophetic Poetry and Violence in African Context.	Active Member Applicant
Padillia	Estela	Ph.D. - Theology	2006	De La Salle University Manila	Daupang-palad sa Katawan ni Kristo at ang Teolohiya sa Ministri ni E. Schillebeeckx: Isang Pag-uusap	Active Member Applicant
Palmieri	David	Doctor of Ministry (D.Min)	2026	The Catholic University of America	A Pastoral Framework for Decreasing Risk and Increasing Support for Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Catholic High Schools	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Plewka	Daniel	Ph.D. - Theology	2024	Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University (Warsaw, Poland)	Działalność duszpasterska i kulturotwórcza polskojęzycznych parafii w Archidiecezji Chicago. Studium Misyjno-Pastoralne (1946-2021) / Pastoral and Cultural Activities of Polish-Speaking Parishes in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Missionary and Pastoral Studies (1946-2021)	Active Member Applicant
Puig Jordan	David	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	2013	University of Hamburg, Germany	„Memoria subversiva: Untersuchungen zu der politischen Theologie auf Kuba im Dialog mit Johann Baptist Metz’ Theologie nach Auschwitz“	Active Member Applicant
Szymanowski	Pawel	STD - Moral Theology	2025	Accademia Alfonsiana - Pontifical Institute of Moral Theology (Rome)	Augustinian Necessitas Caritatis: A Christian Ethics of Citizenship	Active Member Applicant
Tang	Flora X.	PhD - Systematic Theo & Peace Studies	2026	University of Notre Dame	Multidirectional Pasts, Diasporic Futures: An Eschatology from the Middle	Associate Member Applying For Active Membership
Van Rompaey	Jens	STD - Systematic Theology	2025	KU Leuven	The Synodal Church. A Miracle Solution from a Contemporary Perspective or Not? Opportunities and Challenges of Synodality in the Catholic Church.	Active Member Applicant
Walker	Becky	Ph.D. - Historical Theology	2018	Saint Louis University	Almsgiving as the Essential Virtue: A Study of the Homilies of John Chrysostom (book title) "Queen of the Virtues": Pastoral and Political Motivations for John Chrysostom's Exaltation of Almsgiving (dissertation title)	Active Member Applicant

Associate Membership Applications 2025-2026

Last name	First name	DegreeofSacredTheology	DegreeYear	GrantingInstitution	DissertationTitle	Membership level
Ali	Nnaemeka	Ph.D. - Indigenous Theology	Exp. 2028	St. Paul University Ottawa	Kuekuatsheu and the Rebirth of Indigenous Mission Theology	Associate Member Applicant
Antony	Jins	STD - Historical Theology	Exp. June 2027	KU Leuven	Beyond 'Through the Eye of the Needle': A Historical, Literary and Theological Analysis of Clement of Alexandria's Quis dives salvetur?	Associate Member Applicant
Brendan	Mujah	Ph.D. - Practical Theology	Exp. 2028	Palm Beach Atlantic University	Charismatic Outbreaking and the Catholic Response: A Crucial Theological Challenge for the Catholic Church in Nigeria	Associate Member Applicant
Candy	Alice	Ph.D. - Feminist Theology	Exp 2027 or 2028	Saint Paul University	She Who Could Be: Deification as a Resource for Reconstructive Feminist Theologies	Associate Member Applicant
Cuypers-Parsch	Oscar	Th.D.- Dogmatic Theology	Exp. Mar 2027	University of Bochum	Übersetzungsprozesse zwischen Popkultur und Theologie. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit menschlichen Denk- und Lebenswelten	Associate Member Applicant
Delgado	Yenny	Ph.D. - Psychology of Religion	Exp 2027	University of Lausanne (Switzerland)	Religious and Spiritual Aspects Influences on the Construction of Psychological Identity in Spanish-Speaking Christians in the United States.	Associate Member Applicant
Dinsmore	Michael	Ph.D. - Early Christianity	Exp. May 2027	Boston College	The Missing Heretic: Origen in Jerome's Commentaries on the Prophets	Associate Member Applicant
Edmonds	Dartanyan	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	Exp. Aug 2026	University of Notre Dame	Father, Glorify Me with the Glory that I Had: Trinity and Paschal Mystery in Matthias Joseph Scheeben	Associate Member Applicant
Fraler	Amy	Ph.D. - Holocaust and Genocide Studies	Exp. May 2027	Gratz College	Forming Saints: An Empirical and Theological Approach to Integrating the Righteous Among the Nations into Catholic Religious Education	Associate Member Applicant
Frey	Reed	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	Exp. May 2027	University of Notre Dame	A Christian Vision of the Human Person in the Mature Work of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)	Associate Member Applicant
Frolov	Albert	Ph.D. - Comparative Theology	Exp. Nov. 2026	Toronto University	Religous-mystical Experience in the Works of Bernard Lonergan and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi: A Comparative Study	Associate Member Applicant
Haworth	Marcus	Ph.D. - Ecclesiology	Exp. 2027	University of Notre Dame	A People's Document: History, Theory, and Practice	Associate Member Applicant
Imo Donald	Fr. Basols	PhD - Dogmatic Theology	Exp 2027	Tangaza University (Nairobi, Kenya)	Credibility of the Church in the Theology of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger(Pope Benedict XVI)	Associate Member Applicant
Job Alves	Jansen Jackson	STD - Liturgical Theology	Exp. May 2027	University of Notre Dame	Liturgical Renewal and Pastoral Practice in Contemporary Parishes	Associate Member Applicant
Kallukulangara	Linto Francis	Ph.D. - Epistemology & Metaphysics	Exp. 2025	KU Leuven	Fideistic Epistemology in Analytic Philosophy	Associate Member Applicant
Keller	Alaina	Ph.D. - Comparative Theology/Mariology	Exp. 2027	Georgetown University	The Handmaid is Emptiness, Emptiness is the Handmaid: A Critical Study of the Virgin Mary as "Handmaid of the Lord"	Associate Member Applicant
Klee	Kelly	Ph.D. - Liberation Theology	Exp. Aug. 2026	University of Notre Dame	From Nature-Grace to Liberation-Salvation: Genealogy and Originality of Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Liberation Theology	Associate Member Applicant
Kondaveti	Anitha	Ph.D. - Theology	Exp. June 2027	KU Leuven	The Salvation of Souls and the Religious Apostolate: A Theological Reflection on the Religious Apostolate Today	Associate Member Applicant
Korb	Samuel	Ph.D. - Systematic	Exp. August 2028	University of Notre Dame	From Dialectic to Analogy: Logic, Metaphysics, and Theology in G.W.F. Hegel and Erich Przywara, S.J.	Associate Member Applicant
Koshy	Jayan	Ph.D. - Ecclesiology	Exp. June 2031	Durham University	Ecclesial Learning and the Limits of Kenosis in the Life of Doctrine	Associate Member Applicant
Kuriakose	Linta	STD - Theology	Exp 2028	KU Leuven	A Theology of Ministry for the Laity: Reception of Edward Schillebeeckx by Women Theologians	Associate Member Applicant
Le	David	Ph.D. - Theological Studies	Exp. 2027	Emory University	Words Made Flesh: Theological Anthropology after Race and Supersessionism	Associate Member Applicant
Maliyeckal Saviour	Rineesh	Ph.D. - Canon Law	Exp. 2027	KU Leuven	The Status of the Sacrament of Confession as a Privileged relationship of confidentiality in Continental and Common Law Systems in Child Abuse Cases in the Light of Mandatory Reporting Laws with a Special Mention to the POCSO Act of India	Associate Member Applicant
Mammoottil	Jason Mary Joseph	Ph.D. - Ecclesiology	Exp 2028	KU Leuven	Episcopate and Episcopal Powers in Thomas Aquinas and Vatican II	Associate Member Applicant
Matous	Mannes	Th.D. - Theology	Exp. May 2028	Duke University	A Catholic Theological Analysis of the Medicalization of Anxiety	Associate Member Applicant
Momanyi	Oscar	Ph.D. - Ecclesiology	Exp. 2027	Marquette University	A Reimagined African Ecclesiology: Pope Francis, Bernard Lonergan, and Laurenti Magesa on Ecclesial Renewal	Associate Member Applicant
Okafor	AnthonyJude	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	Exp. 2027	KU Leuven	Abundant Life: A Theology of Migration in the light of the Resurrection	Associate Member Applicant
Paluch	Brandon	Ph.D. - Theology and Education	Exp. May 2028	Boston College	Learning from Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institutions to Advance Synodality	Associate Member Applicant
Scordino	Anthony	Ph.D. - Systematic Theology	Exp. May 2028	University of Notre Dame	Body of Adam, Body of Christ: Original Sin in Contemporary Catholic Theology	Associate Member Applicant
Seager	Allison	Ph.D. - Theological Anthropology	Exp. Spring 2026	Saint Louis University	Psychological Healing and Growth: An explanatory account of grace's operations	Associate Member Applicant
Thiele	Michael	PhD - Systematic Theology	Exp. May 2027	Saint Louis University	Ecological Counsels: Monastic Wisdom for a World In Crisis	Associate Member Applicant
Thomas	Shinu	STD - Dogmatic Theology	Exp 2027	Pontificia Università Urbaniana	Union with the Triune God and Communion with Others: Towards a renewed understanding of Theosis in the trinitarian theologies of Catherine Mowry Lacugna and John Zizioulas	Associate Member Applicant
Vinciguerra	Anthony	Ph.D. - Catholic Social Thought	Exp. Dec. 2026	Boston College	Just Engagement?: Catholic Social Thought and Engaged Scholarship in Catholic Higher Education	Associate Member Applicant

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