Our Greek professor wrote the Bible
Although you may not have heard of it, Catholic U is a fairly prestigious school in the world of Catholic theology. We remind ourselves of this whenever we think about the cost or the difficulty. It is very difficult, btw, far more so than NCC, WSU, or GU (at least for the programs that we were in there and are in here). To prove this, here are some examples of relatively important or interesting professors here:
Clyde Cowan (deceased), co-discoverer of the neutrino in 1956 who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it some 40 years later in 1995.
Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB syp who was sentenced in asbentia to 14 years in prison for treason in 2002. The US has, understandably, refused to extradite him.
Closer at hand, today my substitute teacher was Fr. Paul McPartlan, who in 2004 was named to the International Theological Commission, which advises the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (its most important and controversial congregation). It is made up of only 30 theologians around the world so that's not too shabby. He has a delightful British accent that reminds me of Hugh Grant.
Perhaps even cooler, though, is our super-tough, fast-talking Greek professor. Sometimes when translating in my wife's class, he likes to consult "our translation" to see what he put for a given verse. He then proceeds to pull out THE BIBLE. He was the Chairman of the Board of Editors, as well as one of the revisers himself, of the New American Bible's (the most commonly used English Catholic Bible) Revised New Testament which they translated 20 years ago.
Clyde Cowan (deceased), co-discoverer of the neutrino in 1956 who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for it some 40 years later in 1995.
Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB syp who was sentenced in asbentia to 14 years in prison for treason in 2002. The US has, understandably, refused to extradite him.
Closer at hand, today my substitute teacher was Fr. Paul McPartlan, who in 2004 was named to the International Theological Commission, which advises the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (its most important and controversial congregation). It is made up of only 30 theologians around the world so that's not too shabby. He has a delightful British accent that reminds me of Hugh Grant.
Perhaps even cooler, though, is our super-tough, fast-talking Greek professor. Sometimes when translating in my wife's class, he likes to consult "our translation" to see what he put for a given verse. He then proceeds to pull out THE BIBLE. He was the Chairman of the Board of Editors, as well as one of the revisers himself, of the New American Bible's (the most commonly used English Catholic Bible) Revised New Testament which they translated 20 years ago.