Theology faculty gets new leaders; cornerstone laid for new building

Published: 2007-09-14

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Dominican friars of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington installed new leaders and laid the cornerstone Sept. 8 for the school's new, $18 million academic center, currently under construction. The new leaders, Dominican Fathers Steven Boguslawski, Gabriel O'Donnell and Joseph Fox, were installed by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, at a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington. The Washington school is one of seven papally recognized faculties of theology in the United States. The new academic center will house the Dominicans' theology library, as well as the administrative offices and classrooms of the pontifical faculty. "We see the construction of the new academic center as being tangible evidence of our commitment to these new efforts," said Dominican Father Dominic Izzo, provincial superior of the Dominicans in Washington.

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