[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 172 (Monday, November 30, 2015)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1671-E1672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         TRIBUTE IN HONOR OF REVEREND MICHAEL C. McCARTHY, S.J.

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                           HON. ANNA G. ESHOO

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 30, 2015

  Ms. ESHOO. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the work of Father 
Michael C. McCarthy, S.J. and wish him every blessing as he begins a 
new and challenging chapter in his life.
   Father McCarthy, known affectionately to all as ``Father Mick'' has 
served with great distinction as Edmund Campion University Professor at 
Santa Clara University and Executive Director of the University's 
Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education for five years. In January, 2016, 
Father McCarthy will begin a new career at Fordham University as Vice 
President for Mission Integration and Planning and as Presidential 
Assistant for Planning.
   Father McCarthy was born on July 20, 1964 in San Francisco, was 
raised in the City of St. Francis, and is the youngest of six children. 
He is a graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco where he 
received the Ignatian Award. He began his college career at Stanford 
University, but after entering the Jesuit Novitiate a year later he 
continued his education at Santa Clara University. He

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earned his Master of Divinity at the Jesuit School of Theology in 
Berkeley, his BA/MA in Philosophy and Classical Literature at Oxford 
University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. He took his 
First Vows in August, 1985, was ordained Deacon in March 1996, 
Presbyter in June 1996, and served as House Consultor of the Jesuit 
Community from 2007 to 2010.
   During Father McCarthy's stellar years at Santa Clara he founded the 
``Thriving Neighbors Initiative'', a community based program that 
serves low income minorities by providing university students to mentor 
and tutor elementary school children and their parents. He was also 
Director of the Catholic Studies Program and Associate Professor with a 
joint appointment in the Religious Studies and Classics Departments. He 
has published countless articles and book chapters and has made 
numerous presentations, most of them in his chosen research areas of 
early Christianity, early Biblical exegesis, St. Augustine, and early 
asceticism and spirituality.
   Mr. Speaker, I ask the entire House of Representatives to join me in 
honoring Father Michael McCarthy for his extraordinary leadership at 
Santa Clara University and wishing him well in his new position at 
Fordham University where he will undoubtedly have an exceedingly bright 
future. Santa Clara's great loss is Fordham's enormous gain. 
California, and especially Father McCarthy's 95-year-old mother, will 
miss him greatly, but his star is bright enough to shine on all of us 
from wherever he is.

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