The Catholic University of America SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES GRADUATES 2006-2007 Saturday, May 12, 2007   DOCTOR OF SACRED THEOLOGY Rev. Clifford Ndu Aniefuna, B.A., S.T.B., S.T.L. Dissertation:  The Christian Family as the Path to a Culture of Life in the Teaching of Pope John Paul II:  Implications for Igbo Christian Marriage and Family Life (Director:  John S. Grabowski) Rev. Stephen J. Sauer, S.J., B.S., M.A., S.T.B., S.T.L. Dissertation:  Naming Grace:  A Comparative Study of Sacramental Grace Language in Edward Kilmartin, S.J. and Louis-Marie Chauvet  (Director:  Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin) Raphael Gao Chao Peng, B.A., S.T.L. Dissertation:  A Christian Understanding of Becoming Parents:  A Study of Lisa Sowle Cahill’s and John Paul II’s Moral Analyses of Reproductive Technologies and the Application of These Perspectives to the Situation of Contemporary China (Director:  John S. Grabowski)   DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Benjamin J. Brown, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  Raymund Schwager’s Dramatic Soteriology:  Analysis and Evaluation  (Director:  John P. Galvin) Anthony Tyrus Gaines Cirelli, B.A., M.A.R. Dissertation:  Form and Freedom:  Patristic Retrieval and the Liberating Encounter Between God and Man in the Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar (Director:  Peter J. Casarella) David J. Endres, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  Under the Cross and the Flag:  The Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade and the American Quest to Christianize the World, 1918-1971 (Director:  Christopher J. Kauffman) Oleh Kindiy, S.T.B. Dissertation:  Christos Didaskalos:  The Christology of Clement of Alexandria  (Director:  Robin Young, Co-Director: Peter J. Casarella) Brendan Ignatius McGroarty, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  A Study of Walter Hilton’s Reformation in Faith and Feeling from the Perspective of Affect Theory  (Director:  Raymond Studzinski) Geoffrey David Miller, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  A Study of Marriage in the Book of Tobit  (Director:  Alexander A. Di Lella) Oswald John Nira, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  Mexican-American Lay Leadership in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin, 1947-1990  (Director:  John T. Ford) Denis J. Obermeyer, B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  The Relationship of Theology and Literary Form in “The Dream of the Rood”  (Director:  Peter J. Casarella) Theodore James Whapham. B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  The Term “Person” in the Trinitarian Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg  (Director:  John P. Galvin) Qiu-Lin Zhang, B.A., M.A., M.Div. Dissertation:  Liturgical Inculturation:  A Comparative Study of Catholic Funeral Rites and Chinese Death Rituals: Toward Developing a Chinese Catholic Funeral Liturgy  (Director:  Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin)   DOCTOR OF MINISTRY Rev. Kwen Sik Yang, Th.B., M.A. Dissertation:  A Contemporary Theology of Priesthood:  A Continuing Education Program for Priests of the Archdiocese of Seoul, Korea  (Director:  Msgr. Kevin W. Irwin) Sr. Paulina Hurtado, O.P., B.A., M.A. Dissertation:  Promoting the Spirituality of the Permanent Deacon by Means of Theological Reflection in Small Faith Communities  (Director: Gerard Sloyan) Rev. Kevin Carlin Kennedy, B.B.A, M.S.M. Dissertation:  The Use of Focus Groups in the Process of Pastoral Planning  (Director: Charles G. Gravenstine) LICENTIATE IN SACRED THEOLOGY Rev. I. Michael Bellafiore, S.J., B.S., M.F.A., M.A., M.Div., S.T.B. Peter J. Dugandzic, B.S., M.Div. Cristobal Fones, S.J., B.A. Rev. Daesup Kim, B.S., B.A., M.A. Vaidotas Labašauskas, S.T.B. Rev. Kenneth D.O. Richards, B.A. Rev. Gary Brian Selin, B.A., M.A., M.Div. MASTERS OF ART Patrick S. Danner, B.A. Mark Joshua DeCelles, B.A. Daniel Vincent Frascella, B.A. Andrew Tomislav Glicksman, B.A. Rev. Brent A. Kruger, CSC, B.A., M.Div. James K. Lee, B.A. Jason Matthew Lewis, B.A. Donna Marie Moga, B.A. Bekeh Ukelina Utietiang, B.A. MASTERS OF DIVINITY  Michael Gregory Cambi, B.A., B.S. Rev. Jose Raul DeLeon, B.A. Gregory Peter Dube, B.S. Rev. Grantley Gaskin, B.A. Rev. Thomas Michael Lawless, B.B.A. John Tung Nguyen, B.A. Bro. Michael Thomas Rubus, O.F.M. Cap., B.A. Jeffrey Scott Tunnicliff, B.S., B.A. BACHELOR OF SACRED THEOLOGY Rev. William Daniel Beeman, B.A. Jan Dolny, B.A. Dominique Melhem Hanna, B.A. Ignatius Joseph Kury II, B.A. Rev. Paul LaBree, B.A. Nathan Daniel March, B.S. Mariusz Marek Olbryś, B.A. Pavlo Popov, B.A. John Anthony Rossi, B.A. Rev. Kevin L. Segerblom, B.S., M.S. Vsevolod Shevchuk, B.A.