Last updated on:
5/2/2013 |
Author: ProCon.org
Raymond A. Schroth, SJ Biography
- Title:
- Jesuit Priest and Professor of the Humanities at St. Peter's College
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Allowed?"
- Reasoning:
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“The traditional justification for both the death penalty and just war is the right of self-defense. That is the only justification. Not that the killer is someone who, as a killer, ‘deserves to die.’ He remains a human being with a right to die only when God calls him.”
“On One Thing Obama is Wrong,” nj.com, Feb. 29, 2008
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to death penalty issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to death penalty issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Jesuit Priest, 1967-present
- Professor of the Humanities at St. Peter’s College, 1997-present
- Assistant Dean, Fordham College, Rose Hill, 2003
- Professor, Loyola University at New Orleans, 1986-1996
- Named, Journalism Educator of the Year, Southeast Journalism Conference, 1995
- Will and Ariel Durant Chair in the Humanities, St. Peter’s College, 1985-1986
- Former Academic Dean, Rockhurst College
- Former Academic Dean, College of the Holy Cross
- Former Director, Matteo Ricci Society
- Ordained Jesuit Priest, 1967
- Joined, Society of Jesus, 1957
- Former Antiaircraft Artillery Officer, United States Army
- Published articles in the Columbia Journalism Review, Commonweal, America, National Catholic Reporter, Los Angeles Times, New York Newsday, Kansas City Star, Newark Star Ledger, The Boston Globe, and NJVoices.com
- Education:
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- PhD, American Thought and Culture, George Washington University, 1967
- SJ (Society of Jesus), Fordham University and Woodstock College
- Attended, Fordham University
- Other:
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- Although ProCon.org normally adds all earned advanced degrees after the individual’s name, Rev. Schroth specifically asked to exclude it from his title and we obliged.
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