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James (Jim) A. Coriden - d. Feb. 7

02/10/2025 9:21 AM | Anonymous

The CTSA remembers and prays for longstanding member and the 2011 Recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award  James (Jim) A. Coriden who died on Friday, February 7.

Eternal rest grant unto Jim, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen

Awards:

Recipient of the John Courtney Murray Award for Theology in 2011, 
Citation (June 11, 2011)

Fox, Thomas C., James A. Coriden Receives John Courtney Murray Award, National Catholic Reporter, June 11, 2011.

Recipient of the 1987 The Role of Law Award, The Canon Law Society.

CTSA Proceedings:

The Sacrament of Marriage—A Discipline in Search of a Theology (Seminar Paper) Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 34 (1979).

Ecclesiology/Canon Law Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 51 (1996).

(Convener) Peter and Paul Seminar Proceedings of the Catholic Theological Society of America, 61 (2006).


Jim's funeral arrangements are pending; a Celebration of Life will likely be held in the spring.

Comments

  • 02/10/2025 11:28 AM | Anonymous
    Condolences to us all. Jim was a great help to me when, as dean, he welcomed me to the Washington Theological Union and squired me through two years of teaching there.

    Bob Doud
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  • 02/10/2025 11:28 AM | Anonymous
    May he rest in peace. He demonstrated the essence of a canon lawyer--compassion and intellectual integrity.

    Susan Rakoczy
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  • 02/10/2025 4:29 PM | Jon Nilson
    Among Jim’s many gifts was a delightfully and appropriately irreverent sense of humor which skewered any kind of pomposity or pretentiousness.
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    • 02/10/2025 9:06 PM | Lisa Sowle Cahill
      What Bob, Susan, and Jon have offered is so very true. Jim was smart, he was acute, he was witty. He knew canon law very well; he also knew how to use that knowledge to defeat any ultra-traditionalist interpretations of what Catholicism teaches. While being faithful to the best of the tradition, its wisdom and its continuity. Thank you Jim!
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  • 02/11/2025 10:25 AM | Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak
    Jim Coriden and Jim Provost were among the chief figures in the renewal of canon law studies after the Council, hosting symposia and study-projects that were for decades the most important contributions to ecclesiology made in the US.
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  • 02/11/2025 11:04 AM | Dr Edward Jeremy Miller
    To see and chat with Jim Coriden and Tom Green, distinguished members of the Canon Law Society, at our annual theological meetings was a great affirmation of their sense of the connection between theology and canon law.
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  • 02/11/2025 11:23 AM | Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM
    Jim Coriden was a dear friend and mentor. He received the John Courtney Murray award on "my watch." A prophetic and able canon lawyer, a real Mensch with a wonderful sense of humor. His kind does not come around often enough! May he rise in glory!
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  • 02/12/2025 10:10 AM | C Colt Anderson
    I will miss Jim.

    Though I had met him at some of the Franciscan Symposiums, I got to know him well when I was the Dean at Washington Theological Union. He had been a Dean previously and was a mentor. Jim never presented his advice as the only or even best course to take. Most of the time I followed his advice, but when I didn't take his advice he didn't take offence. When he was right and I was wrong, he did not say that he told me so. Instead, Jim would say, "You win some and you lose some." Having moved on to Fordham University, I recognize how rare such graciousness is in higher education.

    He was, as everyone has noted, extremely fun to be with. He was witty and charming. My daughter and I visited Jim with John Burkhard a year ago and he was as sharp as ever.
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