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Speaker: Bryan Hehir - Professor; Harvard Divinity School, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Father Hehir is the Dean of the Harvard Divinity School, where he has been teaching courses on ethics, politics and international relations since 1992. Previous to joining the faculty at Harvard, he served in Washington at the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops and at Georgetown University. At the Conference of Bishops, he was variously director of the Office of International Affairs, secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace and counselor for social policy. At Georgetown, he was the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the School of Foreign Service at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. His writing and research engage issues of ethics, foreign policy and international relations, as well as Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics. Father Hehir's recent publications include scholarly articles titled "Religious Ideas and Social Policy", "The Moral Dimension of the Use of Force" and "Strategy and Ethics in World Politics". Recent courses he has taught at Harvard have covered such topics as bioethics and the political and moral criteria for the use of military force. Father Hehir was recently named President and Chief Executive Officer of Catholic Charities USA, an organization that provides leadership, technical assistance, training, and other resources to local charity organizations in order to help them better devote their own resources to serving their communities.

Related Readings:
Response to Father Hehir's remarks*, Lamin Sanneh, Professor of Missions and World Christianity, Yale Divinity School.
What Can Be Done? What Should Be Done?, America Press, October 8, 2001
Priorities in a Time of Crisis, Catholic Charities USA, October 25, 2001
Lecture focuses on morality of terrorism, Yale Daily News, October 29, 2001