A source tells NCR that the CUA Board selected John Garvey, currently Dean of the Law School at Boston College. Garvey will take over the leadership of the nation's only pontifical university from Bishop-elect David M. O'Connell who will be ordained Coadjutor Bishop of Trenton on July 30.
...the president-elect will be formally presented at a 10am press conference in the Great Room of the Brookland campus' Pryzbyla Center -- the same venue where Pope Benedict addressed the nation's Catholic educators in April 2008. A meeting with the university community has likewise been scheduled for 10.30.
As a song goes, "Where have all the flowers gone ..." here in the nation's capital, we Catholics and other religious brethren might be asking, "Where have all the priests and religious gone ...? Now the three Roman Catholic higher education institutions have laity at the helm! We have witnessed the success of a laywoman and a layman at Trinity College and Georgetown University ... with no little success. President-elect Garvey will be arriving with much recognition and success from Boston's Jesuit seat of higher education, Holy Cross College . Most may immediately think of the land of famed quarterback, Doug Flutie. As well others in our city may also recall Fr. Robert Drinan ... one of the new President-Elect Garvey's predecessors in the Dean's chair at the Boston College Law School.
As Whispers in the Loggia bannered: "Eagle to Cardinal." Maybe the new leader at CUA can bring as well a surprise to the quarterback position of the Cardinal's football team.
