VCU’s Bishop Walter Sullivan Inaugural Lecture features University of Notre Dame President Emeritus

By Mike Porter

Virginia Commonwealth University's Bishop Walter Sullivan Inaugural Lecture will be presented by the President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.

The Rev. Edward A, "Monk" Malloy, C.S.C., Ph.D., will speak on April 8, 2008, at 7:30 p.m. in the VCU Student Commons Commonwealth Ballrooms, 907 Floyd Ave.  His lecture is titled "Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Ethics of Warfare." The lecture is free and open to the public.

A professor in the Department of Theology and a member of the University of Notre Dame faculty since 1974, Malloy served as the university's 16^th president from 1987 to 2005 and now serves as president emeritus.

Malloy earned his doctorate in Christian ethics from Vanderbilt University in 1975, and Vanderbilt honored him in 1998 with the establishment of a chair in Catholic studies in his name. He has also been awarded 24 honorary degrees. Malloy has published two books, has edited or co-edited six books and has written more than 50 articles or book chapters.

Malloy earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Notre Dame in 1963 and 1967, and a second master's degree in Theology in 1969. He was ordained to the priesthood in Sacred Heart Basilica on that campus in 1970. An ethicist by training, he is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Society of Christian Ethics.

Malloy led Notre Dame at a time of rapid growth in its reputation, faculty and resources and helped foster its unique identity as a Catholic University.   

The lecture program is named in honor of Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, who headed the Catholic Diocese of Richmond from 1974 to 2003.