- Robert Faricy
Robert Faricy, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and theologian who is an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality and lives at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
The subjects of Faricy’s teaching and writing include theology, philosophy, general spirituality, comparative spirituality, ecotheology, contemplative prayer, spiritual discernment, and the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Merton, and Flannery O’Connor. He has also written extensively on Marian apparitions, especially at Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina. He has written over thirty books, most of them originally in English and most translated into several languages, as well as several hundred articles in journals, magazines, encyclopedias, and dictionaries of theology and of spirituality. Faricy has given talks and retreats in Italy, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, and many other countries, speaking at conferences and conventions and in churches. He as been active in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, acting as Spiritual Director of the Italian Charismatic Renewal for its first eleven years, and in the renewal of the religious life for Catholic priests, brothers, and sisters. He has been a program innovator and speaker for the Catholic cable television network EWTN and president of Southern California Renewal Communities (SCRC). Brief biographies can be found in Who's Who, in Who's Who in the World, in Contemporary Authors, in The Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, in Who’s Who in Catholic Life, and in other reference works.
External links
* [http://www.robertfaricy.org RobertFaricy.org – the official web page of Robert Faricy]
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