CRS official to take peace studies post at University of San Diego

Published: 2007-05-14

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Spiritan Father William Headley, currently counselor to the president at Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, has been appointed the founding dean of the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego, scheduled to open in the fall. Father Headley will assume the new post at the Catholic university Aug. 1. For CRS, he has helped to oversee its relief, development, and justice and peace programs, as well as participate in critical decision-making activities to establish strategic directions for CRS, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency. In a May 11 telephone interview from Baltimore with Catholic News Service, Father Headley said one thing he would miss about his CRS experience is "hands-on service to the poor in a peace-building capacity." He added, "I am not unhappy at CRS. There is a great sadness at leaving here." One concept he has in mind with his new ministry, though, is "bridging the work at the university and the work we do here."

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