CORRECTION: Villanova University Professor Dr. Bernard Prusak Honored at College of Saint Elizabeth

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Villanova professor Dr. Bernard Prusak was honored with the Servant Leadership Award from the College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown, N.J.

MORRISTOWN, NJ (05/09/2013)(readMedia)-- The College of Saint Elizabeth, 2 Convent Road, Morristown, N.J., honored Dr. Bernard Prusak, professor for historical and systemic theology at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania, with the Servant Leadership Award at a special presentation that took place during We Are God's People, the College's Annual Spirituality Convocation, sponsored by the CSE Center for Ministry and Spirituality on Saturday, April 20, 2013. More than 500 people attended the event that brought together leading theologians and educators for a day of spiritual renewal and formation.

The Servant Leadership Award was established to celebrate the 110th Anniversary of the College of Saint Elizabeth in 2009.

"Jesus taught the disciples that leadership involves a willingness to be 'servant of all,'" explains Carol Pisani, director of the CSE DePaul Center for Ministry and Spirituality and special assistant to the president for mission and values. "We find our common ground in this understanding with many different cultures and faith traditions all over the world. The embodiment of servant leadership entails the ability to change hearts, heal divisions, and build community, and the virtues of courage, foresight, empathy, and stewardship."

Dr. Bernard Prusak, professor for Historical and Systemic Theology at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, is also the former chair of theology and religious studies department at Villanova University. He is the author of The Church Unfinished: Ecclesiology through the Centuries, as well as numerous articles. He has lectured extensively on both the historical and theological perspective of the Second Vatican Council and its continued influence and challenges with hope for new possibilities.

"Dr. Bernard P. Prusak would be known to many who have been his privileged students that he is the hearer of the story, the keeper of the story and the bearer of the story in our world today," read his citation." Certainly, he has done so in his very being as he profoundly lives the Gospel in our world. However, in addition to that, he has been the bearer of the good news of Vatican II since his own experience of that aggiornamento many years ago. With faithful courage and love, Bernie has kept before us that vision of church that came from the 'community of unexpected persons' whom Jesus gathered around himself and how that church was shaped over the course of centuries, by human decisions made in the spirit. He challenges all of us to understand the complexity of the development of the church while at the same time also challenging us to the openness to the future in which God may be calling the Church to new possibilities."

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, N.J., the College of Saint Elizabeth enrolls more than 1,700 full- and part-time students in more than 25 undergraduate, 10 graduate and two doctoral degree programs; an Ed.D.in educational leadership and a Psy.D. in counseling psychology. For information on other activities or programs, visit the College of Saint Elizabeth web site at www.cse.edu.