Stephen Morgan

Rector

Stephen Morgan has been Rector of the University of Saint Joseph since 2020. Originally from Wales in the UK, he is an Associate Professor of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.After a career in finance in the City of London and Hong Kong, he spent fifteen years as the CFO/COO of a large not-for-profit in the UK. Returning to academic work in 2009, he read for a DPhil in Theology at the University of Oxford, where he was a Post Doctoral Research Associate between 2013 and 2015. He has been a member of the academic staff of the Maryvale Institute of Higher Religious Sciences since 2011. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. In addition to his duties as Rector of USJ, he teaches 19th and 20th Century Church History and supervises doctoral students in Religious Studies and History.In 2022 he was elected Vice President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities, That same month he was also elected President of the Executive Secretariat of the Association of South East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific since 2022, and First Vice President since 2024, and was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Quarterdeck Lecture Series at the UK Defence Academy from 2016 until 2022.In October 2021, Catholic University of America Press published his “John Henry Newman and the Development of Doctrine”, which has been described as "The best work I've seen on the development of Newman's own thought on development of doctrine." (Professor David P. Deavel, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota); and as "a definitive reading of Newman’s Anglican path to his 1845 theory of development—and for that, a brilliantly written one—that this reviewer regards as a “must-read” for everyone who is seriously interested in Newman’s theology." (Prof Reinard Hütter, Catholic University of America, in Nova et Vetera, English Edition, Vol. 20, No. 4 (2022): 1335–1359).His spare time is divided between rugby, cricket, baseball, good beer, fine wine, early music and deep sleep.https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9013-259X

Cyril Law

Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7474-1573Rev. Dr. Cyril Jerome Law, Jr., BA, MA, STB, JCL, MCL, PhD (London), FRAS 劉偉傑神父Dean & Assistant Professor, Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy, University of Saint Joseph, Macau 澳門聖若瑟大學宗教研究及哲學學院院長及助理教授Director, Catholic Institute of Theology in Macau 澳門天主教神學院院長Chancellor, Catholic Diocese of Macau 天主教澳門教區秘書長PhD Theology, Heythrop College, University of London 倫敦大學海斯羅珀學院神學系哲學博士JCL, St. Paul University, Canada 加拿大聖保祿大學教會法律執業碩士MCL, University of Ottawa, Canada 加拿大渥太華大學教會法律碩士STB, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome 羅馬宗座額我略大學神學學士MA Philosophy, Holy Apostles College & Seminary, USA 美國聖宗徒學院修院哲學文碩士BA Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA 美國施道本維爾方濟會大學哲學文學士Certificate of English Language Teaching, SPACE University of Hong Kong 香港大學持續進修學院英語教學証書Member, Canon Law Society of America 美國教律學會成員Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 英國皇家亞洲學會院士Previous Positions:Member, Screening Committee, The XXII Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (2019) 第十二屆國際比較文學大會審議委員會成員 (Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature), MacauLecturer, City University of Macau (History of Social Philosophy) 澳門城市大學講師 (社會哲學史)Tutorial Assistant, Heythrop College, University of London (Church History) 倫敦大學海斯羅珀學院神學系研討教學助理 (教會史)

Andrew Leong

Assistant Professor | Head of the Department of Catholic Theology | Coordinator for the Master of Christian Studies and Bachelor of Christian Studies Programmes

2004—2008: Bachelor of Science in Hotel Management at Instituto de FormaçãoTurística, , Macau2008—2012: Bachelor of Christian Studies at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau/ Sacrae Theologiae Baccalaureus at Universidade Católica Portuguesa2012—2013: MA in Theology and Religious Studies at Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven, Belgium2013—2014: Master of Advanced Studies in Theology and Religious Studies /Sacrae Theologiae Licentiatus at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium2014—Feb 2019: Doctor of Theology / Sacrae Theologiae Doctor at KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, BelgiumSep 2019—Present: Assistant Professor at FRSP, USJMay 2023––Present: Head of Department of Catholic Theology; Programme Coordinator of Bachelor of Christian Studies and Foundation Year in Philosophy

Franz Gassner

Associate Professor | Coordinator for the Master of Philosophy and Bachelor of Philosophy Programmes

1964: born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Lower Austria1979-1984: Professional School for Electrical Engineering1984-85: Civil (Alternative) Service as fire-fighter in Krems an der Donau1985-86: Studies in Technical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna1986-89: Studies in Religious Pedagogic at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna.1989-1991: Novitiate in St. Gabriel (Austria) and joining the Divine Word Missionaries1991-1994: Theological studies at the School of Theology in St. Gabriel.1994: M.A. thesis in Catholic Theology: Psalm 139 Horizon and Theology.1995: Ordination to Catholic Priesthood1995-1999: Pastoral service at the Holy Trinity Parish in Vienna 10 (Favoriten) and teaching Religious Education in a Secondary School in Vienna;1994 to 1999: Coordinator of Justice-Peace-Integrity-of-Creation (JPIC) of the Austrian/Croatian province of the Divine Word Missionaries;1999-2000: Assistant priest in the parish St. Genevieve, Lafayette/Louisiana, USA;2000-2002: Graduate Studies (M.A.) in Philosophy at Boston College, USA;2002-2011: Formator at the International Formation Community, SVD in Vienna;2003-2005:  Hospital Chaplain at the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital in Vienna;  2005-2009: University Assistant at the Institute of Social Ethics of the University of Vienna, Austria (teaching courses; supervision of M.A. thesis; research on my PhD-thesis);2010-2011: Lecturer at the Institute of Social Ethics, University of Vienna;January 2012-April 2013: Visiting Professor, USJSince April 2013: Assistant Professor for Christian Studies, USJSince January 2020: Associate Professor;From May 2020 to May 2023: Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy;Orcid-ID: 0000-0002-7815-1146Membership: World Council of Churches (WCC), Committee for Mission and Evangelization (2023-2030);Society for Catholic Social Ethics of Middle Europe;Provincial Council of the Divine Word Missionaries (Societas Verbi Divini, SVD), Province ChinaAreas of Research:  ethics of consumption (social ethics), ethical principles for sustainable patterns of production and consumption; contributions of religion and spirituality for sufficient and sustainable lifestyles and institutions and bearing of the Catholic Social Teaching;Scientific & Technical Committee Member:ICEER 2024 - The 11th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research, July 24 – 26, 2024 | Coimbra, Portugal, https://www.iceer.net/index.htmlCEEGE 2024 - The 7th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Green Energy (CEEGE 2024), Los Angeles, USA, June 28-July 1, 2024, https://www.ceege.org/CEEGE 2023 - The 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Green Energy, Grimstad, Norway, June 6-9, 2023. http://ceege.org/CEEGE 2022 - The 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Green Energy, June 8-11, 2022, Berlin, Germany.ICEER 2022 - The 9th International Conference on Energy and Environment Research “Greening Energy to Shape a Sustainable Future”, 12-16 September 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.

Jaroslaw Duraj

Assistant Professor

My name is Jarosław Marek Duraj, S.J. I come from Poland. I majored in philosophy (Cracow) and theology (Warsaw). Later, I earned a postgraduate licentiate (S.T.L) in Missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, after which I pursued Mandarin Chinese language studies, first in Taipei, and then in Beijing. In 2008, I obtained an M.A. in Buddhist Studies (with distinction) from the University of Hong Kong. Moreover, I pursued postgraduate research on Chinese Buddhism at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. In 2017, I earned my Ph.D. in political philosophy from the Pontifical Gregorian University (PUG) in Rome. Currently, based in Macau, I work at the Macau Ricci Institute (MRI) and as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy at the University of St. Joseph (USJ). My research interests focus on political philosophy, interreligious dialogue, intercultural philosophy, missiology, sinology, and Buddhology. I am the author of The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin (New York: Peter Lang, 2021).ORCID: 0000-0002-9350-0324https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9350-0324ResearchGatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jaroslaw-Duraj

Thomas Cai

Assistant Professor | Research Coordinator for the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy

Dr. Thomas Yilun Cai (Ph.D, KU Leuven; Master of Studies in Theology, University of Oxford; MA in Religious Studies, Fudan University) teaches courses in dogmatic theology. Before coming to USJ, he was a research fellow at Sun Yat-sen University. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the idea of natura pura in Robert Bellarmine’s commentary on the Summa. Dr. Cai’s work is broadly engaged with the theology of Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic school in the 16th and 17th centuries.ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2409-1010SCOPUS: 55620333100

Sonja Xia

Assistant Professor

Sonja Xia has obtained her Ph.D. in theology from K.U.Leuven, Belgium. Her research is on the formation of doctrines in the early Church. Before joining USJ, she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow in the project of Intellectual Humility at the Faculty of Philosophy, St. Louis University MO, and research fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University. She has taught courses on the Bible and world religions. Currently, she teaches the history and theology of the early Church as well as Mariology. She serves as the Chair of the Pedagogical Council and a member of the Board of Examiners of FRSP.Her research field covers the doctrinal development in the Early Church and the mystical tradition in the Early Church.

Ian Alabanza

Assistant Professor

Ian Shelley Alabanza was awarded summa cum laude honors for his PhD from the University of Saint Joseph. He has been lecturing at the university for 10 years and has taught 23 different course modules on topics related to philosophy, theology, and psychology. His main research is on migrant religiosity while his other academic interests include the psychology of religion and spirituality as well as cultural anthropology.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4003-8957

Martyn Percy

Professor

Martyn Percy is Professor of Religion and Culture in the Faculty of Theology. He is Honorary Provost Theologian at Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, Senior Research Associate at the James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen, UK) and a Professor of Theology at Institut für Christkatholische Theologie (Faculty of Theology), University of Bern, Switzerland.Martyn was Principal of Cuddesdon from 2004-2014, and then served as Dean of Christ Church Oxford (i.e., the Head of the College and Cathedral) until 2022. From 2023-24 he was Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Virginia Theological Seminary. Martyn's research and writing span various disciplines, including theology, religion, education, cultural theory, anthropology, and sociology.  His early work on power in fundamentalism helped to establish and crystallise the work of critical ecclesiology and congregational studies in the UK. He has taught at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, working on moral and social values in public life. His work in contextual theology and critical ecclesiology pays particular attention to the identity, performance, and development of churches and denominations in the 21st century. With the Faculty of Theology (USJ) and its Xavier Centre for Memory and Identity, he undertakes PhD supervision for Southeast and East Asian students, working in research on ecclesiology and ecumenism. At the James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen, UK), his work focuses on religious responses to climate change, ecology, sustainability, and local and global challenges of the 21st century.  In addition to his scholarly output, he also writes, preaches, and teaches on Christian spirituality. His sermons and meditations are published globally (several volumes with Canterbury Press), and his homilies and reflections have appeared in the UK secular press for over thirty years.  He also contributes to Prospect Magazine, The Guardian, and The Times.Martyn's professional contributions extend well beyond academia. He has held numerous roles in public life, demonstrating his ability to contribute to a variety of spheres. These roles include Director of the Advertising Standards Authority, Adjudicator for the Portman Group (the self-regulating body for the alcoholic drinks industry), Commissioner of the Direct Marketing Authority, and Advisor to the British Board of Film Classification. His diverse expertise is further demonstrated by his role as a Home Office-approved advisor for ethical screening in research science, Chair of the University of Oxford’s Committee for Reviewing Donors (2017-2021), and Panel Assessor for Social Services in adoption and fostering.Martyn holds a unique distinction in the theological world, being the only living theologian to be featured in Dan Brown’s 2003 The Da Vinci Code. This intriguing fact and other notable achievements led Theology Journal to describe him as “the British Theologian closest to being a missionary anthropologist”. His writings have been the subject of an academic study, Reasonable Radical: Reading the Writings of Martyn Percy (Pickwick Publishing: Edited by Ian Markham & Joshua Daniels, 2016). He is the General Editor of Orientis Aura, the journal of religion and culture for East and Southeast Asia.

Anna Chan

Emeritus Professor | Coordinator for the Chinese Programme of the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy

1985 Master (S.T.L.) (Spirituality), Pontificia Studiorum Universitas Salesiana Romae. 1986 Master (S.T.L.) (Sacred Liturgy), Pontificia Athenaeum Anselmianum Facultas Liturgiae seu Pontificium Institutum Liturgicum Romae. 1993 Doctorate (S.T.D.) (Sacred Liturgy), Pontificia Athenaeum Anselmianum Facultas Liturgiae seu Pontificium Institutum Liturgicum Romae. 2008 Diploma (Archivistica), Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica. Her teaching experience includes: From 1996 to 2007, she taught theology at the Holy Spirit Seminary College of Theology and Philosophy of Hong Kong, and she was appointed as one of the members of the editorial board of the Theology Annual of the College during the same period. She was invited also to teach in the various seminaries in Mainland China from 1998 to 2006. She joined the University of Saint Joseph in January 2011 and held the position of Vice-Rector of the University from October 2011 to September 2014, when the mandate terminated. At present she is teaching theology in the Faculty of Religious Studies.

Peter Stilwell

Emeritus Professor

PETER DAMIAN FRANCIS STILWELL Born in 1946. Ordained priest for the Diocese of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1973. 1993 - DOCTORATE IN THEOLOGY at the Gregorian University, in Rome, with a thesis entitled A Condição Humana em Ruy Cinatti - uma aventura poética e religiosa. ------------ 2012 (May) - RECTOR of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), Macau. 2008-2012 - VICE-RECTOR of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) 2002-2011 - DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF THEOLOGY of the Catholic University of Portugal (UCP) from 2002 to 2011. 2001-2012 - Commissioned by the Patriarch of Lisbon do oversee the interreligious dialogue in the diocese. 1997-2012 - Spiritual Advisor to the Portuguese national Catholic radio station, Radio Renascença. 1995-2012 - Taught modules of Fundamental Theology, Christology, and History and Theology of Religions at the Faculty of Theology (UCP), in Lisbon.

Fausto Gomez

Emeritus Professor

    CURRICULUM VITAE: FAUSTO GOMEZ BERLANA     FAUSTO GOMEZ BERLANA, OP, is a Spanish Dominican (born in El Oso, Avila, Spain: December 4, 1937). He was ordained priest on June 14, 1962 at St. Dominic’s Church in Washington, D. C. He holds a Licentiate in Theology (1963) from the Dominicans’ Pontifical Faculty of Theology in Washington, D. C., and an M. A. in Philosophy (1975) and a Doctorate in Theology (1971) from the University of Santo Tomas, Manila. He has also taken postgraduate courses in bioethics at Loyola University in St. Louis, Missouri. (Summer, 1990 and 1991).             Fr. Gomez has worked at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila for forty four years (since 1965) as a Professor and an Administrator. As professor, he has taught in the University of Santo Tomas and in other theological institutions of Manila Fundamental Moral Theology, Grace, Virtues, Justice, Social Doctrine of the Church, and Bioethics.             Among the positions he has held in the University of Santo Tomas are the following: Secretary General (1966-1977), Dean of the Faculty of Theology (1979-1985, 1998-2004), Director of the Social Research Center (1979-1991), Regent of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (1988-1998), Founder and Chairman of the Department of Bioethics (1991-2001) and Regent of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences (1989-1994; 2004-2009). He was the editor of UNITAS, the UST Faculty Journal (1970-1977), and the editor of Bioethics Notes and News (2000-2009)             He has authored a number of books, including the following collections of essays: The Praxis of Justice and Solidarity (1988), Social Ethics: Doctrine and Life (1991), Promoting of Justice, Love, Life (1998), A Pilgrim’s Notes: Ethics, Social Ethics and Bioethics (2005), The Journey Continues: Notes on Ethics and Bioethics (2009), and Vatican II at Fifty Moral and Social Teachings (2013).             At present, Fr. Gomez is professor emeritus at the Catholic University of Saint Joseph in Macao, China, and professor at the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines. He is  a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and the Editorial Board of the (USA) National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.    

Albert Ho

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Visiting Academic)

Albert HO Ka-Fai, SDB, is a Salesian priest who has been appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Co-Director of the Chinese Programme in the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Saint Joseph, a Master's degree in Social Science specializing in Youth Counselling from Hong Kong Baptist University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from Hong Kong Baptist University.He has been providing teaching services at the University of Saint Joseph for over seven years. His contributions span the School of Education, the Faculty of Health Sciences, and the Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy, where he has taught various modules and supervised students. Additionally, he has conducted seminars on suicide prevention organized by Direcção dos Serviços de Educação e Juventude and Catholic schools. Beyond his academic responsibilities at USJ, he has over ten years of teaching experience in Catholic secondary schools. Furthermore, he has provided clinical supervision services at Hong Kong Shue Yan University and Hong Kong Baptist University.His research interests include the spiritual analysis of dreams, incorporating psychological references, and exploring Cognitive Therapy.

Chieng Wei Shieng

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Eduardo Aguero

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Visiting Academic)

Felipe Bacalso

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Visiting Academic)

Javier Gonzalez

Adjunct Full Professor (Visiting Academic)

Javier González is a Dominican priest, born in Spain on 19 July 1949. He studied Philosophy and Theology in Madrid (1966-1973) earning there his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1974. Then he got his Doctorate in Canon Law at the Angelicum, in Rome, in 1981. Combining pastoral work with academic activity, Fr Javier spent 27 years in the Philippines, at the University of Santo Tomas [UST] in Manila, in whose Faculty of Canon Law he taught from 1984 to 2009 and became its Dean for nine years (1997-2006). He was also Editor of the Journal Philippininana Sacra (1991 to 2008) and of Philippine Canonical Forum (1999 to 2009). By reason of his office he moved to Hong Kong in 2009 and from there he started teaching at the FCS of the University of St Joseph (Macau) in 2012 as Visiting Professor. Since 2017 fr Javier resides in Macau, at St Dominic’s Priory [39-41, Avenida Sidonio Pais], in charge of the Dominican students’ formation.

Jose Mandia

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Visiting Academic)

Judette Gallares

Adjunct Assistant Professor (Visiting Academic)

Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Religious Studies from 2015-present Teaching the following Subjects: Aesthetic Theology Theological Anthropology

Matthew Jones

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Paul Kwong

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Philip Wickeri

Adjunct Professor

Rowena Chen

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Stephen Lim

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Zhao Jianmin, Peter

Adjunct Professor (Visiting Academic)

CV (100 words): Fr. Dr. Peter ZHAO Jianmin, born on 1st January 1964 in Zhengding, Hebei Province, P.R.China, was entered Beijing Archdiocesan Seminary in Sept.1984 and ordained to priesthood on 21 Dec.1989. He worked as dean of the study of the Seminary and parish procurator of Yongning, Xihulin and Qiuxian. In Sept.1992 he worked as assistant priest of the Cathedral and in March 1994 as procurator of North parish. From Nov. 1994 to Sept.1995 he studied in U.K. and from Sept.1995 to Oct. 2002 studied in K.U.Leuven, Belgium, and graduated with his doctorate in Canon Law. On 8 Dec.1998 he was appointed as director of Sapientia Press of the archdiocese. On 3 Aug.2002, he founded the Beijing Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture for academic works. In Nov.2007 he was nominated vicar general of the archdiocese.