Human Rights Professor appointed to Georgetown

Professor Jack Mahoney SJ has been appointed Distinguished Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, for an initial period of two years to take effect from this summer.

Lanarkshire-born Prof Mahoney has had quite a long association with Georgetown, going back to the part of his Jesuit formation spent in America in 1963-4, when he spent some weeks as resident hospital chaplain in the Georgetown University Medical School.  Since then he has been invited over to Georgetown on several occasions to deliver special lectures on moral theology, at the last of which, a few years ago, he was presented with the President's Medal for his services.

Prof Mahoney entered the Society of Jesus in 1951 and has spent much of his ministry lecturing in moral theology at Heythrop College, of which he was Principal between 1976 and 1981.  He says he is looking forward to returning to some University teaching, opening with a course in Business Ethics, and he aims to devote most of his time and research to a study of the history of Christian social thought.  His recent book, The Challenge of Human Rights, is selling well in both its hardcover and paperback Blackwell editions, and is proving a popular text book on the subject.


 Georgetown University

 Heythrop College

 Challenge of Human Rights: Blackwell Publishers