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	Author ,fr. Joseph Chinnici to Speak at SLU St. Louis Review February 3, 2011 http://stlouisreview.com/article/2011-02-02/author-fr-joseph Franciscan Father Joseph P. Chinnici will present “Politics and Abuse: Creating an Ethical Space in a Public Church” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 8, at St. Louis University’s Busch Student Center, St. Louis Room, 20 N. Grand Blvd. in Midtown St. Louis. The Department of Theological Studies at SLU will present the 16th Annual DeLubac Lecture featuring Father Chinnici, a professor of Church history at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, Calif. An Oxford-educated historian initially mentored by John Tracy Ellis, Father Chinnici is a scholar, teacher and speaker in the history of American Catholicism and the development of Franciscan theology and spirituality. His most recent book is “When Values Collide: the Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse and the Challenges of Leadership,” published by Orbis books. Father Chinnici, as head of the California Province of the Franciscans in the early 1990s, responded when news of 34 boys abused by 11 friars at St. Anthony Seminary in the early 1960s was brought to light. His book, according to a report in St. Anthony Messenger magazine, seeks to move national discussion and action surrounding the complex issue of sexual abuse beyond partisanship and polarization to a new “ethical space” that fosters respectful, mutual and fraternal relationships. Father Chinnici’s ground-breaking work “Living Stones: The History and Structure of Catholic Spiritual Life in the United States” has been followed by numerous articles in U.S. Catholic Historian, the co-edited “Prayer and Practice In the American Catholic Community” and studies on the history of prayer and on the reception of Vatican II in the United States. He is currently working on Church, Society, and Change, 1965-1996, a history of the post-conciliar period in American Catholicism. He served nine years as provincial minister for the Franciscan Friars of the Saint Barbara Province; two stints as academic dean at the Franciscan School of Theology and in numerous other positions. He has called for a high-quality education for the laity alongside those in religious life.
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