J Leon Hooper
J. Leon Hooper, S.J., has been a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) since 1962. He received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Gonzaga University (Spokane) and, after receiving a M.Div. at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1975. In 1982 he completed a theological ethics Ph.D. with specialization in Religion and Society from Boston College.
From 1986 through 2011, Dr. Hooper worked at the Woodstock Theological Center, a social ethics research institute at Georgetown University, on a range of social ethical issues. Following from his dissertation study on John Courtney Murray, S.J. (the principal American framer of the Roman Catholic Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Religious Freedom), in the late 1990s he directed a project on Murray that was funded by the Lilly Endowments, Inc., which yielded two collections of primary Murray sources and a collection of secondary essays. For six years Hooper coordinated a workshop for the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America on the legacy of John Courtney Murray for emerging interfaith issues.
Besides continuing as a fellow of Woodstock Theological Center, in 2003 Hooper became and continues as Director of the Woodstock Theological Center Library, located Georgetown University. For six of the past ten years he served as book review editor for the Jesuit journal Theological Ethics.
From 1986 through 2011, Dr. Hooper worked at the Woodstock Theological Center, a social ethics research institute at Georgetown University, on a range of social ethical issues. Following from his dissertation study on John Courtney Murray, S.J. (the principal American framer of the Roman Catholic Second Vatican Council’s Decree on Religious Freedom), in the late 1990s he directed a project on Murray that was funded by the Lilly Endowments, Inc., which yielded two collections of primary Murray sources and a collection of secondary essays. For six years Hooper coordinated a workshop for the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America on the legacy of John Courtney Murray for emerging interfaith issues.
Besides continuing as a fellow of Woodstock Theological Center, in 2003 Hooper became and continues as Director of the Woodstock Theological Center Library, located Georgetown University. For six of the past ten years he served as book review editor for the Jesuit journal Theological Ethics.