Two Saint Paul Seminary Faculty Bibliographies

John A. Ryan
A prominent American Catholic of the first half of the 20th century, Msgr. John Augustine Ryan spent his life integrating Christian social principles and economic issues.  When the St. Paul Seminary opened in 1894 he was one of its first students, being ordained 1898. He taught moral theology at the Seminary from 1902 to 1915, when he joined the faculty at Catholic University.

His best-known work is Distributive Justice. Fr. Ryan was an avid "New Dealer" and an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1937 he became the first Catholic to deliver the benediction at an inauguration. He died in 1945.

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Jerome D. Quinn 

Msgr. Quinn was a well known Biblical scholar and teacher at the Seminary where he was the Old and New Testament professor from 1961.  He received his degree from the Pontifical Biblical Institute (Rome).  He was a past president of the Catholic Biblical Association and one of the editors of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 

Fr Quinn has a memorial plaque in the Reference Room at Ireland Library, one of his favlorite haunts, where he did much of the research for his volume on the Letter to Titus in the respected Anchor Bible commenatry series, published posthumously in 1990.

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Compiled by Dr Michael Patrick O'Oconnor with the assistance of Betty Bigelbach, Then Reference Librarian, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, University of St. Thomas. St. Paul, Minnesot,1995.