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Faculty and Administration News (FAN)  

First issued in November 2009, Faculty & Administration News (FAN) is a quarterly publication of Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology. The aim of this newsletter is to share with readers the many accomplishments of ICSST's faculty and administrators.

In This Issue:

  • Reverend Roberto Ortiz, S.T.L., S.T.D. (Cand.), begins service as Vice Rector of Immaculate Conception Seminary.
  • Ellen R. Scully, Ph.D., promoted to Full Professor, effective beginning with AY 2025-2026; featured as a speaker at Annual Meetings of Academy of Catholic Theology and North American Patristics Society.
  • ICSST’s Preaching as Hospitality Formation Program, funded by $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., engages thousands from the SHU and broader communities, through website launch; Advent and Lenten reflection series; Wisdom Figures of Preaching series; Many Faces of Hospitality series; and day of reflection:  The Hospitality of God in the Gospel of Luke.
  • Through 4:12 Pathway for Pastoral Leadership project, funded by $989,384 grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., Deacon Andrew E. Saunders, M.A. ’08, leads ICSST in developing digital resource hub database, Diaconal Formation and Leadership Today, and in hosting diaconal leadership forum colloquy.
  • The Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas (Rome) and ICSST at SHU collaborate with St. Paul Inside the Walls Evangelization Center (Diocese of Paterson) to present A Day of Reflection:  Evangelization and Catechesis at the Beginning of the Pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, on SHU’s South Orange campus.
  • Reverend Joseph R. Laracy, S.T.D., awarded $10,000 SHU Research Council Summer Stipend to support his project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Human Person.
  • Jamie Boulding, Ph.D., nominated for, and accepted for membership in, Faculty Academy for External Recognitions and Awards (FAERA).
  • Justin M. Anderson, Ph.D., publishes co-edited book on Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Canon Law.
  • Joseph P. Rice, Ph.D., delivers to 2025 Hildebrand Society Summer Residency in Austria presentation on the role of AI in higher education, incorporating elements of the Church’s social doctrine, as well as works of several philosophers.
  • As Chair of the Censores Librorum, Reverend Monsignor C. Anthony Ziccardi, S.S.L., S.T.D., reviews a dozen books submitted to the Archbishop of Newark for his certification that they are free from Catholic theological error.
  • Reverend Christopher M. Ciccarino, K.C.H.S., S.S.L., S.T.D., begins service as appointed member of the Board of Control of the New American Bible.
  • Dianne M. Traflet, J.D. ’88, S.T.D., inspires nearly 800 people through ten recent retreats and presentations on themes such as Marian spirituality, Eucharistic spirituality, and the lives and examples of Saints Edith Stein and Titus Brandsma.
  • Timothy P. Fortin, Ph.D., continues service as prison minister, offering Bible studies and outreach to county, federal, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees, and as coordinator of prison ministry religious services for the Archdiocese of Newark.
  • Reverend Paweł Tomczyk, Ph.D., develops two courses to serve the growing Spanish-language and English-language cohorts of permanent diaconate students in ICSST’s Center for Diaconal Formation, which continued, for a second consecutive year, to teach the largest number of permanent diaconate candidates in the nation.

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