Music: Its Theologies and Spiritualities

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Duns Scotus Professor Emeritus and retired Professor of Liturgy and Music at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Edward Foley is the Duns Scotus Professor Emeritus of Spirituality and a retired Professor of Liturgy and Music at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. A member of the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order since 1966, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1975. He holds multiple graduate degrees in music, ministry and theology, including a Ph.D. in Theology (1987) from the University of Notre Dame. An award winning author, he currently has 30 published authored or edited books to his name; some of his most recent works are Catholic Marriage: A Pastoral-Liturgical Handbook, Defragmenting Franciscanism: Collaboration in a post Ite Vos era, and Preaching as Paying Attention: Theological Reflection in the Pulpit. Foley has also authored over 300 chapters in books, scholarly and pastoral articles, and reviews. His current writing projects include a new work on Eucharistic worship after Vatican II. He was a recent recipient of grants from various foundations, including a major grant from the John Templeton foundation on preaching and the sciences. A well known speaker and teacher, he has lectured in over 60 dioceses throughout the English speaking world. He was granted the mandatum as a teacher of Roman Catholic theology from Francis Cardinal George. He received of the Jubilate Deo award from the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, and a Lilly Faculty Fellowship. Foley was awarded the life-time achievement Berakah award by the North American Academy of Liturgy in 2013, and the McManus Award from the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions in 2020. He currently serves his community as the vice-postulator for the canonization cause of Blessed Solanus Casey. He preaches and presides at Old St. Patrick's Church in Chicago and St. Mary's Church in Riverside.