Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J.

Director, McNamara Center for the Social Study of Religion and Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Fr. Patrick Gilger is a Jesuit priest and Assistant Professor of Sociology at LUC. He was a co-founder of The Jesuit Post, and currently serves as the consulting editor for culture at America Media. His dissertation was a comparative study of three of the new ecclesial movement in the Catholic Church — the Focolare, Sant’Egidio, and Communion and Liberation — and here at Loyola he teaches and studies about religion, secularism, and social theory. He tweets at @paddygilgersj.