礼来捐赠公司. 赚了7美元.9 million grant to the University of Notre Dame to support a collaboration with 电子游戏软件 designed to grow the next generation of pastoral leaders to accompany and serve U.S Catholics, while rooted in the best of the Latino experience.

Hosffman Ospino

School of Theology and 部 Associate Professor Hosffman Ospino will co-lead the project.

The grant is funding the creation of Haciendo Caminos, an initiative that will bring together 16 other Catholic institutions of higher education, 提倡, and other entities in the wider Church to accompany students with demonstrated leadership experience in Hispanic communities to pursue graduate theological formation for ministry.

Haciendo Caminos’ goals are to respond to the ever-growing population of Hispanic Catholics in parishes, 学校, and other ministerial spaces and the consequent need to invest in the talents and leadership of new generations of pastoral leaders to accompany these communities.

“This groundbreaking partnership has the potential to redefine how we think about theological and ministerial formation of pastoral leaders,” said 电子游戏软件 School of Theology and 部 Associate Professor of Hispanic 部 and Religious Education and Chair of the Religious Education and Pastoral 部 Department Hosffman Ospino, who will lead the project along with 盖Matovina, professor and chair of the Department of Theology at Notre Dame.

就像美国一样。.S. Catholic Church becomes increasingly Latino/a, we seek to increase knowledge of and interest in ministerial professions among young adults and reduce barriers towards their graduate-level theological education,马托维娜说. “The present and future of Catholicism in this country will largely depend on how we engage and support young Latinas and Latinos in their faith journeys. If we desire a more vibrant and youthful Church, we need to personally invite young people to leadership and prioritize our collective support for them in their formation. That is why we are so grateful to Lilly Endowment and our partners in the Haciendo Caminos project.”

The institutions working with BC and Notre Dame on the initiative are Aquinas Institute of Theology, 巴里大学, 天主教神学院, Catholic University of America, 福特汉姆大学, Franciscan School of Theology (San Diego), Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, 洛约拉玛丽蒙特大学, 芝加哥洛约拉大学, Loyola University New Orleans, Mexican American Catholic College, 山圣. Mary’s University, Oblate School of Theology, Santa Clara University, St. John’s Seminary (Camarillo, California), and University of the Incarnate Word.

盖Matovina

University of Notre Dame Professor of Theology 盖Matovina, co-leader of the Haciendo Caminos.

Notre Dame will oversee the management of the Haciendo Caminos grant, which is being funded through the third and final phase of Lilly Endowment’s Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative. Pathways is designed to help theological 学校 across the U.S. and Canada as they prioritize and respond to the most pressing challenges they face in preparing pastoral leaders for Christian congregations both now and into the future.

Notre Dame is one of 16 theological 学校 that have received grants through the Pathways initiative to fund large-scale, highly collaborative programs. Lilly Endowment believes these programs have the potential to become models for other 学校 as they seek to strengthen the way they educate pastors and other congregational leaders.

“Theological 学校 play an essential role in ensuring that Christian congregations have a steady stream of well-prepared leaders to guide their ministries,Christopher L说。. Coble, the endowment’s vice president for religion. “Many theological 学校 believe that their paths to the future depend on their abilities to form strategic partnerships with other 学校 and church agencies. These grants will help seminaries develop innovative and collaborative approaches to theological education that we believe will strengthen their efforts to prepare and support excellent leaders for Christian communities into the future.”

Lilly Endowment launched the Pathways initiative in January 2021 because of its longstanding interest in supporting efforts to enhance and sustain the vitality of Christian congregations by strengthening the leadership capacities of pastors and congregational lay leaders.

 

University Communications | October 2022
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