Father Hehir to teach at Harvard on religion and public life

Published: 2004-02-24

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (CNS) -- Father J. Bryan Hehir has been named the Parker Gilbert Montgomery professor of the practice of religion and public life at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Father Hehir, a priest of the Boston Archdiocese who is former president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, recently returned to Boston to head the Catholic Charities agency in that archdiocese. He will take the Harvard post next fall. From 1993 to 2001, he was a professor of the practice of religion and society at the Harvard Divinity School and chairman of that school's executive committee, as well as a member of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. "Father Hehir has dedicated his career to exploring the role and impact of religion in social policy and international affairs," said Joseph S. Nye, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, who announced the appointment. "We are very fortunate to have his experience and depth of knowledge" at the school.

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