J. Bryan Hehir

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Joseph Bryan Hehir (born 1940) is an Roman Catholic priest and theologian. Hehir was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.
Career.
Hehir serves as the Secretary for Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. He is also the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Hehir was formerly a faculty member at Georgetown University and at the Harvard Divinity School.
In 2004, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, the oldest and most prestigious award for American Catholics.