Reverend Francis X. Meehan
Assoc. Prof. of Moral Theology

Academic
BA, St. Charles Seminary, Philadelphia, 1958
STL, Gregorian University, Rome, 1962
STD, Academia Alfonsiana (An affiliate of the Lateran Univ.),1965
Post-Doctoral Study in Spirituality at St. Louis Univ., 1973-74.

Vocational
Entered Seminary after High School, 1954 and was ordained a priest in St. Peter's Basilica on December 20, 1961 while at the North American College.  Pastoral assignments have included Catholic High School teaching, Archdiocesan Administration of Religious Education (1969-73), seminary teaching, college teaching, and parish ministry.

Associate Professor and Professor
Assoc. Prof. of Moral Theology, St. Charles Seminary (part time 1966-73 and full time 1974 -83).

Taught several years in the Religious Studies Division : Between 1970 and 1982

Assoc Professor of Theology at Immaculata College 1983-84

Promoted to Professor of Theology 1984-87

Also have taught in the Graduate Summer Programs of Lasalle University (1967-69) and The Catholic University of America 1983. 

Professional Organizations and Activities.
Catholic Theological Society of America:  Have given presentations as well as published in their Proceedings. 

Active member of the College Theology Society and have give a lecture at one of their regional meetings.

Active member of The Society of Christian Ethics

Pax Christi USA and Pax Christi International:  Have given lectures ; participated in International Meetings ; was an elected member of the National Council of Pax Christi USA for two terms.

Vatican and NCCB  Consultations and Participations :
Invited to Rome as one of nine participants at a Colloquium of the Vatican's Pontifical    Commission on Justice and Peace entitled "The Human Person: Criteria for Development," 1981

Invited as a Consultant on the moral theology of disarmament for the NCCB Ad Hoc Committee on Peace, February 12, 1982 in preparation for the       Bishops' Pastoral on Peace

Invited to critique papers and participate in a special meeting of the NCCB Priestly LIfe and Ministry Committee 1979

Invited Participant of NCCB Colloquia between Bishops and Scholars sponsored by The NCCB Doctrine Committee 1979, '80, '81, '82, '83.

Invited Lecturer to the Ongoing Education Workshop for Bishops sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, Dallas, Texas, February 1981.

Publications and Lectures for The Respect Life Committee of the NCCB

Consultative Paper written at the request of the Secretary of the NCCB for Bishop Malone's participation in the 1985 World Synod of Bishops.

Consultation for Individual bishops on various issues in medical-moral, sexuality, and social justice issues.

Elected Offices, Appointments and Awards
Elected to the Council of Priests three times.

Elected twice for two separate three-year terms to the National  Council of Pax Christi USA 1981-84 and 1984-87

Elected to the Steering Committee for the Moral Theology Seminar of The Catholic Theological Society of America for the term 1986-88.

Received the SIGN (Service in God's Name) Award from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Community Service Corps 1984-85.

Appointed to the Medical-Moral Committee of Mercy Catholic Medical and have served since 1986.

Invited lecturer for the Introductory Talks at a meeting of Pax Christi International and the Delegates of the Russian Orthodox Church in Odessa, USSR, November 1985.

Workshops, Lectures, Retreats, Programs.
Over the years I have spent a great deal of time in ongoing education for priests.  For example, moral theology workshops for the Dioceses of Pittsburgh, Greeensburg, Orlando, Camden, Allentown, Charlotte and Raleigh,  Detroit,  Miami,  Wilmington, Cincinnati
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I have given retreats to priests, sisters and to seminaries both in the Philadelphia area and in other areas such as, Boston, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Priest of Institute of the Cor Jesu, Camden priests, Newark Priests.

1972-73 I served as Director of a year-long program entitled The Archdiocesan Youth Conference, a process of dialogue between young adults and the Church.

Talks and workships in behalf of my work as Coordinator or Religious Education, in Office of Catholic Education from 1969-73

Lectures to Seminary and College Facultys, for example, St. Joseph's University faculty, Villanova Theology faculty, the Board of Rosemont College, the faculty of Mary Immaculate Seminary, Northhampton, and to the students of North American College, Mount Airy Lutheran Seminary, and talks to students of area Colleges.  Also lectures at Conventions of the NCEA, the Catholic Theological Society of America, Pax Christi National Assemblies 

Many talks  to Philadelphia parishes and groups, including the Philopatrian Society, Serra Clubs, Catholic Physicians Guild, Home and Schools, faculties of high schools, and elementary schools, Archdiocesan Religious Education Conventions, Pro-Life Conventions and Pro-Life groups in the area.

Lectures on Catholic Teaching on War and Peace, Immaculata University 2003, and St Margaret, Narberth 2005

Ecumenical
Archdiocesan representative on team of priests in a one-year dialogue with Episcopal Priests 1967-68

Participant in Lecture Exchange program, Lutheran Seminary, Mount Airy

Talks and lectures with several Ministeriums in area

Member of Doylestown Ministerium 1987 and Religious Council of West Chester from 1992 through 2007

Lectures at Crozer Baptist Seminary 1968-69.

Publications:
Book entitled A Contemporary Social Spirituality, published by Orbis Press, 1982. 
Pamphlets:

Pro-Life Work and Social Justice published by the NCCB,

Abortion and Nuclear War, Liguori Press, 1984 

Booklet of Homilies entitled Preaching the Peace Pastoral, (in Collaboration with Thomas Heron and William Mattia), published by the Chicago Office of Liturgy and Training Publications. 1985

Several statements written for Pax Christi and published in pamphlet form, e.g.  "A Statement on Civil Disobedience," 1988 and a "Five Year Assessment Statement of the Bishops' Pastoral Teaching On Deterrence."

Encyclopedias and Dictionary
--for the New Catholic Encyclopedia, entry entitled "Sexual Morality," Volume 17
--for the New Catholic Encyclopedia, entry entitled "Peace," Volume 18 (upcoming 1988)
--for the New Dictionary of Theology, entry entitled "Peacemaking." published 1987 by Glazier Press.

Articles in major periodicals. 
--( From 1978 onward some 25 articles in other periodicals such as America, Emmanuel, The Priest, Linacre Quarterly, Catholic Mind, The Living Light, Review for Religious, Marriage and Family Living, ) 
--Some more recent sample articles.
--"Evangelization, Violence and Liberation in Catholic Thought," Living LIght, Vol. 23 No. 1 (October 1986) pp.7-21
--"Peace Teaching: A Chronicle,"  The Harvard Educational Review, August 1984
--"The Bishops Pastoral, Nonviolence and the Development of Doctrine," in Thought, March, 1984; Also published in Dwyer (ed.) The American Bishops and Nuclear War, Georgetown Univ. Press, 1984.
-- Book Reviews published in Horizons, The Living Light, Review for Religious, Emmanuel, the Catholic Standard and Times.
--From 1986 onward a monthly column written for The Catholic Standard and Times.
--Also from 1986 through 1989, a bi-monthly column written for the Pax Christi Newsletter. 
--Doctoral Dissertation published privately entitled A Theological Evaluation of Client-Centered Therapy in the Writings of Carl R. Rogers

Parish Priest
--1987-89 Assoc Pastor, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Doylestown
--Spring and summer of 1989 Administrator of St Justin Martyr Parish
--Pastor, SS Simon and Jude 1989 to June 2007.