J. Bryan Hehir

Joseph Bryan Hehir (born 1940) is an American Catholic priest, philosopher, and theologian in the United States. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.

Career

Hehir has served as the Secretary of Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. He was also the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government until his retirement in 2021.

Hehir was formerly a faculty member at Georgetown University and at the Harvard Divinity School.

Hehir was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995. He became a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2002.

In 2004, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, the oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics.

References

1. Consistent life ethic
2. Catholic Charities USA
3. Hard Choices (Moore book)
4. Seán Patrick O'Malley
5. Pacem in terris
6. Charles Taylor (philosopher)
7. Harvard Kennedy School
8. MacArthur Fellows Program
9. Catholic social teaching
10. Laetare Medal
11. Catholic Guardian Services
12. Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award
13. Chelmsford High School
14. The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response
15. List of American Academy of Arts and Sciences members (1994–2005)
16. 2012 Massachusetts Question 2
17. List of documentary films
18. List of American films of 1991
19. List of Hollyoaks characters (2018)
20. List of American films of 1979