School of Theology and Seminary Graduate Papers/Theses
Submissions from 1975
(Graduate Paper) Didache Chapters Nine and Ten: A Eucharistic Prayer?, Mary Alice Piil CSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Development of the "Hymn" in Western Liturgical Prayer from Apostolic Times to the Beginning of the Seventh Century, Gregory Polan OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Eucharist as a Confession of Faith in John 6, Gregory Polan OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Parable of the Sower and the Seed in Matthew 13: A Study in Redaction-Criticism, Gregory Polan OSB
(Graduate Paper) Lay Priesthood in Church Worship, Colleen A. Reddy
(Graduate Paper) Infant Baptism? Meaning and Implications of the Question, Angelina Rispoli OP
(Graduate Paper) A Study in Qoheleth, Christine Marie Rody VSC
(Graduate Paper) Ritual and Christian Identity, Michael J. Sadusky
(Graduate Paper) Sacraments and the Experience of God, Kieran Sawyer SSND
(Graduate Paper) Women and the Service Ministry of the Diaconate, Stephen R. Schmidt
(Graduate Paper) Table Fellowship in Luke, Phillip R. Smith CPPS
(Graduate Paper) Eucharist Implications in John VI, Laura Jean Spaeth SSND
(Graduate Paper) Morning Prayer in the Early Christian Church, Kateri Starczewski CSJ
(Graduate Paper) Confirmation: Age Is Not the Problem, Mary Christopher Strackhouse
(Graduate Paper) Anointings, Imposition of Hands, and Sealing with the Sign of the Cross in the First Five Centuries of the Christian Church, Kay Tardiff SC
(Graduate Paper) The Role of the Choir in the Church, JoAnn Timmerman OP
(Graduate Paper) An Exegesis of John 4:46-54, Miriam Vos OSB
(Graduate Paper) Proclamation of the Dominion of Christ in the Colossian Hymn: An Exegesis of Colossians 1:15-20, Sandra Ann Weinke SSND
(Graduate Paper) Catholic Church Music: Spring of '75, Robert L. Wurm
Submissions from 1974
(Graduate Paper) The Resurrection of Christ: a Biblical and Theological Perspective, James Barry
(Graduate Paper) Eucharist: the Primary Sacrament of Reconciliation, Rosalie Barsotti RSM
(Graduate Paper) A Study of Isaiah 30:15-17, Marietta Bertelsen OP
(Graduate Paper) A Study of the Directory of Masses for Children Regarding Its Application to Children in the Intermediate Grades, Marietta Bertelsen OP
(Graduate Paper) A Study of the Paraclete, Stephen J. Bird
(Graduate Paper) Constantine and the Council of Nicaea 325, Mary Ann Budka OP
(Graduate Paper) Sacramental Symbolic Activity, Mary Ann Budka OP
(Graduate Paper) Yves Congar's Understanding of Tradition: Toward a New Metaphysic of Time, Robert J. Burke OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Three New Eucharistic Prayers, Kathleen Carey RSM
(Graduate Paper) Binding and Loosing, William Connell
(Graduate Paper) Current Thinking on Glossolalia, Malcolm Cornwell OP
(Graduate Paper) He Healed All, Shane Curran
(Graduate Paper) Prayer: a Response of Poverty and Praise, Claire Marie Czerwiec SSND
(Graduate Paper) Prayer: A Response of Poverty and Praise, Claire Marie Czerwiec SSND
(Graduate Paper) Sterilization: A Contemporary Moral Problem, Teresa Disch OP
(Graduate Paper) Mixed Marriage and Pastoral Care, Robert W. Donnelly
(Graduate Paper) Baptism and Grace in the Fathers of the Church, Neysa Emmons OSF
(Graduate Paper) Priest as Liberator, Jack Fabian
(Graduate Paper) The "Son of Man" Controversy: A Critique and Reassessment, Thomas J. Fisch
(Graduate Paper) The Eucharist: A Memorial Sacrifice, Patricia Ellen Gallagher RSM
(Graduate Paper) The Formative Nature of the Early Christian Catechumenate, Patricia Ellen Gallagher RSM
(Graduate Paper) The Interpretation of the Psalms in the Development of Johannine Christology, Patricia Ellen Gallagher RSM
(Graduate Paper) The Laying on of Hands: The History and Significance of the Rite, William C. Graham
(Graduate Paper) Notions of Faith as Found in "A New Catechism", Mary Louisa Heinl SND
(Graduate Paper) The Early History of Morning Prayer, Mary Louisa Heinl SND
(Graduate Paper) Marcan Usage of the Book of Psalms, Joann Heinritz OSF
(Graduate Paper) To Be Church Is To Do Eucharist, Joann Heinritz OSF
(Graduate Paper) Poverty and the Poor in Proverbs, Lorraine Henry CSJ
(Graduate Paper) Berakah: The Stance of Contemplative Prayer, Ephrem Hollermann OSB
(Graduate Paper) Psalmic Typology in the Book of Revelation, Ephrem Hollermann OSB
(Graduate Paper) Play: Man's Religious Response to His Experience of the Sacred, Edward Kalkman
(Graduate Paper) The Glory of Yahweh: A Study in the Book of Numbers, Augusta Kerschen
(Graduate Paper) The Significance of the Sphragis in Baptism, Specifically with Regard to Saint John Chrysostom, Gregory M. Kwapisz OFM Conv
(Graduate Paper) Manichaeism Is Not Fundamentally a Christian Heresy, Robert Legowski
(Graduate Paper) Reflections in Support of Women in Ordained Ministry in the United States Catholic Church, Patricia Lieb SSND
(Graduate Paper) Eucharistic Prayer II in Perspective, Barbara Maher CSJ
(Graduate Paper) I Met a Man Once ... : A Study in the Christian Dimensions of Conscience and Responsibility, Charles Mason
(Graduate Paper) The Funeral Liturgy and Its Communal Participation: Their Historical and Theological Development, Charles Mason
(Graduate Paper) Euthanasia: Some Moral Perspectives, Anthony C. May
(Graduate Paper) Abraham Joshua Heschel: Prophetic Moment in the Twentieth Century, Diane McCalley OSB
(Graduate Paper) Conscientization and the Liturgy, Lorraine Meyer ASC
(Graduate Paper) Tax Collectors in the Synoptic Gospels, Brian Miclot
(Graduate Paper) Newman's Theory of the Development of Doctrine, Bernard Montgomery OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Synod of Whitby: An Historical Analysis of Events and People, Bernard Montgomery OSB
(Graduate Paper) Development of Family Life: Challenge to the Church in the Bahamas, Preston A. Moss
(Graduate Paper) The Apophatic Tradition of Contemplative Prayer in The Cloud of Unknowing and Some Pastoral Implications for Contemporary Spirituality, John O'Brien CP
(Graduate Paper) Local Church as Sacrament, Edward A. O'Melia
(Graduate Paper) Ritual Action as Prayer, Joan Penzenstadler SSND
(Graduate Paper) Women in the Presbyterate, Mary Alice Piil CSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Symbolism of Water in Baptism, Colleen A. Reddy
(Graduate Paper) Truth in Community: An Approach to the Infallibility Question, Kieran Sawyer SSND
(Graduate Paper) Responsible Obedience and Dissent in the Church Today, Mary Jo Schilling OSM
(Graduate Paper) A Theological Reflection on Social Justice in the Puerto Rico of 1974, Idalia Seijo
(Graduate Paper) Prophetism, Phillip R. Smith CPPS
(Graduate Paper) The Liturgy of the Hours: A Sacrifice of Praise, Phillip R. Smith CPPS
(Graduate Paper) Roots of the Priesthood in Church Documents of the First Four Centuries, Judith Smits CSA
(Graduate Paper) The Interpretation of the Psalms in the Gospel of St. John as Illustrative of Predominant Sacramentary Themes, Laura Jean Spaeth SSND
(Graduate Paper) Use of Psalter in I, II Peter, Maria Tasto OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Reality of Sacramental Power, Rose Ann Trzil OSF
(Graduate Paper) The Authenticity and Meaning of the Yahweh Speeches in the Book of Job, Patricia Vanden Bergh CSJ
(Graduate Paper) The Office of Deaconess in the First Five Centuries of the Church, Miriam Vos OSB
Submissions from 1973
(Graduate Paper) Pelagius Revisited, James Barry
(Graduate Paper) Man: Enabled to Confront Life and Death: the Social Function of Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Rosalie Barsotti RSM
(Graduate Paper) The People of God and the Church's Official Prayer Life, Eulalia May (LeMay) Wagner Bechtold
(Graduate Paper) Before the Non-Violent Cross: a Study of Pacifism, Mary Bequette
(Graduate Paper) Ontological Pneumatology: an Appraisal of Paul Tillich's Doctrine of the Spiritual Presence, Colin F. Bircumshaw
(Graduate Paper) Jewish Berakah: Roots of Christian Eucharist, Diane Boutet OP
(Graduate Paper) The Sacrament of Penance Today: Reasons for Decline, Signs of Hope, and Possible Future Directions, Michael C. Braun
(Graduate Paper) The Origin and Development of Papal Political Power, Paschal Brisson OSB
(Graduate Paper) Worship and/or Celebration, Maria Bruck CSJ
(Graduate Paper) Sacrament of the Sick or of the Dying, Basil St. John Carew
(Graduate Paper) The Problem of Evil Encountered in Personal Moral Guilt, Charles Ceronsky
(Graduate Paper) Faith Today, William Connell
(Graduate Paper) Paul's Reaffirmation of Bodily Resurrection in Chapter Fifteen of First Corinthians, Jane Connors OSU
(Graduate Paper) The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Call to Faith, Jane Connors OSU
(Graduate Paper) A Theology of Play as Applied to Vatican II's Concepts of Religious Life, Mary Grace Crowley OP
(Master's Thesis) Legem Credendi Lex Statuat Supplicandi: Liturgical Two-Edged Sword, John W. Curran OFM Conv
(Graduate Paper) Thomas More, Humanist and Martyr, Michael Anthony DiMaio
(Graduate Paper) Mithraic and Christian Cult: An Analogy, Julian Duerbeck OSB
(Graduate Paper) Taboo and Leviticus, Julian Duerbeck OSB
(Graduate Paper) The Symbolism of Water in John 3,4 with Reflections on Visits in Israel, January 1971 and July 1972, Regina C. Ecker SSND