Duquesne University Professor George Worgul remembers well a conversation he had with Cardinal Donald Wuerl in 1989.
The professor had just been appointed chair of the theology department at Pittsburgh’s largest Catholic university. Then-Bishop Wuerl had taken the reins of the diocese the year before. Worgul says the bishop reached out to talk about how bishops and theologians can work together.
Recalling the meeting as “very positive,” Worgul says he walked away impressed with how the bishop appreciated the “complexity of the role of the theologian.”
