Richard M. Liddy
University Professor of Catholic Thought and Culture
Seton Hall University
Richard Liddy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, is the director of Seton Hall's Center for Catholic studies and is also Senior Fellow of the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. From 1990 to 1994 he was a professor of religious studies at Seton Hall, and during 1990 he was Acting Chancellor of Seton Hall University. He has also served as Rector of Immaculate Conception Seminary/School of Theology at Seton Hall. From 1980 to 1984 he was the Spiritual Director of the North American College in Rome. Monsignor Liddy's doctoral dissertation at Gregorian University in Rome was on the work of the American philosopher, Susanne K. Langer. In 1993 he published a work on the Canadian philosopher-theologian, Bernard Lonergan, entitled Transforming Light: Intellectual Conversion in the Early Lonergan (Liturgical Press). In 2006, he published another book on the personal appropriation of Bernard Lonergan's Insight entitled Startling Strangeness: Reading Lonergan's Insight. He has also written on the thought of John Henry Newman and is interested in art, education, formation, and leadership.
Liddy appeared on our "Culture of Life" program, speaking on the promise of Catholic studies.
