IPS Visiting Professors

2010 – 2011 Term	2011 – 2013 Term
Rev. Brett C. Hoover, CSP	Rev. William A. Clark, SJ

Rev. Brett C. Hoover, CSP (2010 – 2011)

Brett C. Hoover spent the 2010-2011 academic year as the first of two Visiting Research Faculty at Loyola University Chicago. He currently teaches practical theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He received a Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Dr. Hoover is a Paulist priest, having served several multicultural parishes across the United States. He founded the internet ministry for young seekers, Busted-Halo.com. Dr. Hoover’s first article informed by his INSPIRE research at Loyola University Chicago is called “When Work Culture and Ministry Collide,” and was published in the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) Seminary Journal.

Rev. William A. Clark, SJ (2011 – 2013)
William A. Clark is a priest of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He holds a Doctorate of Sacred Theology (STD) in systematics from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. His work in ecclesiology has focused on the role of local church communities in the authority of the Church. He lectures widely on local community and the role of the laity in the Church, and is regularly involved in parish pastoral ministry and retreat direction in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. He currently holds a Visiting Research Professor position at the Loyola University Chicago Institute of Pastoral Studies (IPS) during the 2011-2013 academic years. Rev. Clark is researching collaborative pastoral leadership, as expressed during the tenure of INSPIRE in the Archdiocese of Chicago, toward an ecclesiology of Catholic parish.