Rev. Michael E. Connors, C.S.C., Th.D.

Associate Professional Specialist, Department of Theology
Director, John S. Marten Program in Homiletics and Liturgics, in service to the Master of Divinity Program
Ordained to the priesthood in 1984 in the Congregation of Holy Cross, the United States Province.

Current CV.

Office phone: (574) 631-3006

E-mail: mconnors@nd.edu
 

Educational Background

Th.D., Regis College/Toronto School of Theology/University of Toronto, Pastoral Theology, 1997.  Dissertation: "The National Pastoral Plan for Hispanic Ministry as a Strategy for Inculturation among Mexican Americans."  Director: Prof. Carl Starkloff, S.J.

M.Div., University of Notre Dame, 1983.

B.A., Illinois College, History/Political Science, 1977.

Forthcoming monograph: “Put Out into Deep Water”: Deepening Parish Discipleship through Preaching with the Rites and Seasons of Christian Initiation. Chicago, Illinois: Liturgy Training Publications, 2018.

Edited volume: What We Have Seen and Heard: Fostering Baptismal Witness in the World (papers from the 2015 Notre Dame preaching conference).  Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017.

Edited volume: To All the World: Preaching and the New Evangelization (papers from the 2014 Notre Dame preaching conference).  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2016.

Edited volume: We Preach Christ Crucified (papers from the 2012 Notre Dame preaching conference).  Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2014.

Monograph: Inculturated Pastoral Planning: The U.S. Hispanic Experience.  Rome: Gregorian University Press, 2001.  Vol. XXI of the series Inculturation: Intercultural and Interreligious Studies; Arij A. Roest Crollius, S.J., and Daniel Madigan, S.J., eds.

Book chapter: “Romero: A Homiletic Saint for Our Times,” in Robert S. Pelton, ed., Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World (Lexington Books, 2015).

Book chapter: “Doctrine and Preaching,” co-authored with Ann M. Garrido, to appear in a handbook on preaching edited by Edward Foley et al. (Liturgical Press, forthcoming).

Encyclopedia entries: “Bessette, Alfred”; “Burghardt, Walter”; “Congregation of Holy Cross”; “Craddock, Fred”; “Hesburgh, Theodore”; “Long, Thomas G.”; and “Sorin, Edward”; to appear in the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, edited by Mark Lamport and George Thomas Kurian (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming).

Article: “Preaching as Worship: Progress and Ongoing Issues in Roman Catholicism.”  Church Life 2:3 (2013), 23-36.

Article: “A Future for Initiation? Some Challenges on the Road Ahead.”  Catechumenate 27:1 (January 2005), 2-17.

Article: "A Case Study Method for Theological Reflection in Field Education."  Co-authored with Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C.  Journal of Supervision and Training in Ministry 22 (2002) 131-46.

Article: "The Experience of God in History: A Personal Journey into Liberation Spirituality."  Grail: An Ecumenical Journal (Waterloo, Ontario) 7:4 (December 1991) 48-68.

Book review of Stephen B. Bevans, Models of Contextual Theology, rev. ed. (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2002), Mission Studies, January 2005.

Book review of Conrad Cherry, Betty A. DeBerg, and Amanda Porterfield, Religion on Campus (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), in Horizons 30:1 (Spring 2003) 174-5.

Book review of Kenneth G. Davis and Jorge L. Presmanes, Preaching and Culture in Latino Congregations (Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 2000), in Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology 10:1 (August 2002) 78-80.

Book review of Joan H. Timmerman, Sexuality and Spiritual Growth (N.Y.: Crossroad, 1992), in the Toronto Journal of Theology 10:1 (Spring 1994) 146-7.

 
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