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24 Oct Congratulations to our Honorary Doctorate Recipients: Dr. M. Shawn Copeland and Fr. J.M. Jack Lynch SFM!

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Regis College is pleased to confer honorary doctoral degrees at its 2024 convocation upon two distinguished individuals, Dr. M. Shawn Copeland and J.M. Jack Lynch SFM.

Dr. M. Shawn Copeland, professor emerita of systematic theology at Boston College, is renowned for her groundbreaking work in theological anthropology, political theology, and African-American Catholicism. Completing her doctorate at Boston College in 1991, Dr. Copeland has since taught at Yale Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School, Marquette University, and Boston College. Her scholarship centers on the lived experiences of those enduring violence and oppression, addressing how “God, in persons, is offended” by such “sins against the divine image in each human being.”

Selected Publications:

Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Fortress Press, 2010).

The Subversive Power of Love: The Vision of Henriette Delille: The Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality (Paulist Press, 2009).

Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience. With LaReine-Marie Mosely and Albert Raboteau (Orbis Books, 2009).

Dr. Copeland will deliver the 2024 Chancellor’s lecture entitled, “The Political Vision of Jesus of Nazareth: Imagination, Mission, and the Reign of God” on November 22 at 7 pm, The event is free and in-person only. Registration is required. Click here to register
Fr. Jack Lynch SFM, a priest of the Scarboro Foreign Missions Society, has devoted his life to ministry across China, Asia, and Latin America. His journey, beginning in Toronto in 1968, has seen him serve as executive director of the Interamerican Cooperative Institute and as the leader of the Scarboro Foreign Missions Society. Grounded in a commitment to social justice, Fr. Lynch reflects, “People say I evangelized, but I was also evangelized every moment I spent in Latin America. The Spirit of God is present in the other, not just in me or my reality.” Looking forward, Fr. Lynch said, “We want to encourage young people and anybody who’s searching to try to live out the Gospel.”
The conferral of these honorary doctorates is a witness to Dr. Copeland and Fr. Lynch’s dedication to the service of the Church, social justice, journeying with youth, and walking with the excluded.