John Courtney Murray

John Courtney Murray was born in New York City in 1904 and attended Xavier High School. In 1920 he entered the Society of Jesus, and he studied classics and philosophy at Boston College, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1926 and his master's in 1927. He then taught Latin and English literature at the Ateneo de Manila in the Philippines. After theological studies he was ordained a priest in 1933 and earned a doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome. From 1937 he taught theology at Woodstock College in Maryland, and he edited the journal Theological Studies. Murray wrote on the relationship between the Catholic Church and modern democratic states, arguing that the American system of religious freedom was compatible with Catholic teaching. In the 1950s church authorities asked him to stop writing on the subject. His book We Hold These Truths (1960) examined the moral foundations of the American public order. At the Second Vatican Council he served as an adviser and helped draft the Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis Humanae, adopted in 1965. He died in New York in 1967.

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Faith: American Jesuit priest and Catholic theologian. Source: Wikipedia