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| Fr. Dennis D. McManus |
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Fr. Dennis D. McManus, a priest of the Archdiocese of Mobile, will be the co-presenter at both the Interfaith Dialogue Community Day and Clergy Day. McManus will present alongside Rabbi James A. Rudin.
McManus is currently the Consultant to the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affair of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), where he assists in Catholic-Muslim and Catholic-Jewish relations. He is also the Assistant Director of the Intercultural Forum at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center that specializes in interreligious dialogue. At present, he is a visiting Assistant Professor of Theology at Georgetown University.
McManus received his bachelor’s degree in Classical Languages and Philosophy from St. Mary’s College of California in 1975. He completed a master’s degree in historical ethics at Georgetown University and a doctorate in historical theology (patrology) at Drew University. He has taught in secondary schools and universities for thirty years, including courses in theology, liturgy, medieval literature and inter-religious dialogue.
From 1993 to 2008, McManus served as Managing Editor of Paulist Press’ Ancient Christian Writers series, a patristics publication of over fifty volumes. Together with Rabbi Leon Klenicki of the Anti-Defamation League of New York, he co-edited the first volume of a new series from the Stimulus Foundation entitled, The Word Set Free: Preaching the Lectionary Free of Anti-Judaism. From l995 to 1998, he was translation editor of Drew University’s patristic commentary on the bible, The Ancient Christian Commentary, published by Varsity Press. McManus is also a member of the editorial board of Ephemerides. He has written and lectured widely on liturgy and interreligious dialogue. From 1993 until 2006, he was Vice President of the Stimulus Foundation of New York, which publishes major works dealing with the Jewish-Christian dialogue. He is also a founding member of the board of the Institute for International Criminal Investigation, which examines forensic evidence of genocides world-wide. In 2005-2006, McManus held the Smilow Chair in Catholic-Jewish Relations at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, DC.
McManus is a resident of Washington, D.C., where he served as Associate Director of the Secretariat for the Liturgy at the USCCB from l997 to 2005. He belongs to the USCCB dialogue with the Reformed Churches and the Vatican dialogue with Baptist Churches, and is a member of the pontifical Vox Clara commission of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. |
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