Reverend James V. Schall S.J.

James V. Schall, S. J. has had a venerable career in teaching and publishing. He is Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His books include: Another Sort of Learning, At the Limits of Political Philosophy, On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs, Schall on Chesterton, Idylls and Rambles, What Is God Like? and Jacques Maritain: A Philosopher in Society. Father Schall was born in Pocahontas, Iowa, January 20, 1928. He attended public schools in Iowa and graduated from Knoxville High School in 1945. He then attended the University of Santa Clara. In addition Schall served in the U. S. Army from 1946-47. In 1948 he entered the California Province of the Society of Jesus at Los Gatos, California. Schall received a bachelors degree and a masters degree in philosophy from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. He earned a doctorate degree in political philosophy from Georgetown University, Washington, D. C., in 1960.

Schall was ordained to the Priesthood in 1963. He worked as Assistant Professor for Istituto Sociale, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, Associate Professor for the University of San Francisco, and as a Professor, at Georgetown University. He was granted tenure in the spring of 1983 and full professorship in August, 1988. Schall was a member of the Pontifical Commission on Justice and Peace, the American Political Science Association, the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, the American Maritain Association and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. In addition he served as President to the National Council on the Humanities, of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1984 to 1990.