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...Bryan Hehir, who in 1999 became the highest-ranking Catholic administrator in the Divinity School’s history, will take a part-time position at the Kennedy School in September while retaining his current full-time post as president of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Boston...
...Hehir led the Divinity School through a period of tumult after his predecessor, Ronald F. Thiemann, stepped down in the fall of 1998. Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran, was forced to resign from his deanship after technicians found pornography on a computer at his University-owned mansion...
...When Hehir, a 1977 graduate of the Divinity School, succeeded Thiemann, he declined to take the title of “dean” or live in University housing in order to show that his first duty was to the Catholic Church...
...Hehir left the school in 2001 to become president of Catholic Charities USA and teach at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service...
...expert in international relations, Hehir helped orchestrate an effort among Catholic leaders to advocate nuclear disarmament in the early 1980s, winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant for his work...