Catholic Theological Union

Catholic Theological Union

Motto	Preparing effective leaders for the Church, ready to witness to Christ's good news of justice, love, and peace.
Type	Private graduate school of theology
Established	1968
Accreditation	ATS
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic
Academic affiliations	Association of Chicago Theological Schools (ACTS), DePaul University, Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary, University of Chicago Divinity School
Endowment	$41.7 million (FY23)[1]
President	Sr. Barbara E. Reid, OP
Dean	Ferdinand Okorie
Academic staff	16 full-time, 20 full-time equivalent[2]
Administrative staff	42[3]
Postgraduates	193, 127 full-time equivalent[4]
Location	Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
Campus	Urban
Website	ctu.edu

Catholic Theological Union (CTU) is a Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was formed in Hyde Park as a union of schools from three Catholic religious institutes and has since been sponsored by 24 institutes and Catholic faith communities. It is one of the largest Catholic graduate schools of theology in the English-speaking world, training men and women for both lay and ordained ministry within the Catholic Church.^[5]

It was founded in 1968, when three religious institutes—the Franciscans, Passionists, and Servites—united their separate theology programs to form one school. The institution has since gained the sponsorship of twenty-three religious communities.^[6]

CTU is run and staffed by religious and lay men and women. International students constitute nearly one-third of the student body.^[7]

The main library of CTU is the Paul Bechtold Library, named after CTU's founding president.^[8] Distinctive collections in the library include in Catholic religious communities, dialogue across ecumenical and inter-religious lines, and pastoral theology.^[9]

• New Theology Review (NTR)
• Theophilus: The Student Journal of Catholic Theological Union

• Claude Marie Barbour, scholar of world mission
• Stephen B. Bevans, scholar of mission and culture
• John Dominic Crossan, scholar of the New Testament
• Edward Foley, scholar of spirituality, liturgy, and music
• John Jefferson Gros, scholar of Christian ecumenical studies (adjunct faculty member)
• Leslie J. Hoppe, scholar of the Old Testament
• Daniel P. Horan, scholar of systematic theology and spirituality
• Kevin J. Madigan, scholar of church history
• Steven P. Millies, professor of public theology
• John T. Pawlikowski, scholar of social ethics
• Robert J. Schreiter, scholar of theology and culture
• Wayne Robert Teasdale, scholar and practitioner of interreligious dialogue (adjunct faculty member)
• Zachary Hayes, professor of systematic theology

• Pope Leo XIV, MDiv 1982, 267th pope
• Saleha Jabeen, MA 2014, MDiv 2020, first female Muslim chaplain in the United States Department of Defense

• Official website

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