Theologians struggle to tie together roles in church, academia

Theologians struggle to tie together roles in church, academia

NCR

Duquesne University Professor George Worgul remembers well a conversation he had with Cardinal Donald Wuerl in 1989. The professor had just been appointed chair of the theology department at Pittsburgh's largest Catholic university. Then-Bishop Wuerl had taken the reins of the diocese the year before. Worgul says the bishop reached out to talk about how bishops and theologians can work together.

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