The Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture Series
The Inaugural Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 25, 2007
Speaker: Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel
"Liturgy, Forty Years after Vatican II"
4:00 PM, Caldwell Hall Auditorium
Reception to follow
For more information, please contact The School of Canon Law.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Msgr. Frederick R. McManus, 82, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston and professor emeritus of The Catholic University of America, died on November 27, 2005 in Boston, Mass. of heart failure.
Msgr. McManus began his undergraduate studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. before attending St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Mass. where he received a BA in 1947. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of Boston that same year. Msgr. McManus continued his studies in canon law at The Catholic University of America where he received the J.C.B. degree in 1952, the J.C.L. in 1953, and the J.C.D. in 1954.
From 1954 to 1957 Msgr. McManus served as a professor of Canon Law and Moral Theology at St. John’s Seminary. He joined the faculty at Catholic University in 1958 and filled many roles at the University during his tenure. He served as Dean of the School of Canon Law from 1967 to 1973, as Vice Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies from 1974 to 1983, and as Academic Vice President from 1983 to 1985. Msgr. McManus retired in 1993 but continued to teach until 1997 as a professor emeritus.
Msgr. Frederick R. McManus was a distinguished canonist and a major expert in the postconciliar reform and renewal of the Roman Catholic Liturgy. He initiated a graduate program in liturgical studies and participated in ecumenical dialogues at both national and international levels. A peritus at the Second Vatican Council, he was involved in the implementation of the Sacred Liturgy, and assisted with the establishment of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL). Msgr. McManus received awards too numerous to list here from universities, professional societies, commissions, and associations that recognized his unique and scholarly contributions to the liturgical prayer of the Church.
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The James H. Provost Memorial Lecture Series
The Fifth Annual James H. Provost Memorial Lecture - April 3, 2008
Speaker: Rev. James A. Coriden, J.C.D., J.D.
"Enduring Parishes, Emerging Ministries"
4:00 PM, Caldwell Hall Auditorium
Reception to follow
For more information, please contact The School of Canon Law.
202-319-5492
cua-canonlaw@cua.edu
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Rev. James H. Provost, 60, a priest of the Diocese of Helena, Montana, and ordinary professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, died on August 26, 2000 in Washington, D.C. of complications from lymphoma.
Father Provost did his undergraduate studies at Carroll College in Helena and his theological studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, earning an M.A. and S.T.B. He was ordained at the American College in June, 1963. In 1967 he received a doctorate in canon law from the Lateran University in Rome.
From 1967 to 1979 Father Provost served as Chancellor and Officialis of the tribunal for the Diocese of Helena. He served as a member of the Canon Law Society of America, in 1977-1978 and as its Executive Coordinator from 1980 to 1986. The Society awarded him its highest honor, the Role of Law Award, in 1991.
In 1979 he joined the faculty of canon law at the Catholic University of America and served as Chair of the Department from 1987-1998. Since 1980 until his death, he served as the managing editor of the faculty's journal, The Jurist.
Father Provost published scholarly, pastoral and popular articles in a variety of publications, including national and international canon law journals. He also lectured frequently on canonical and pastoral topics in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. He was a member of the board of directors of the Consociation Internationalis Studio Iuris Canonici Promovendo. For ten years he served as one of the directors for the Church Order section of the international theological journal Concilium. Since 1997, he had been a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States.
