Lawrence J. Madden

Jesuit Father Madden is the founder of the Georgetown Center for Liturgy in Washington, D.C., and has been its director since it began in 1981. He has served as director of campus ministry and as a member of the theological faculty at Georgetown University. He has been adjunct professor of pastoral theology at the Washington Theological Union and the Catholic University of America, and has served as an advisor to the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.

A frequent speaker at conferences and parish programs, he has written numerous articles and edited and co-authored several books on liturgy and American spirituality, including The Joseph Campbell Phenonmenon and Celebrating Marriage.

He served as pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Church from 1993 to 2000 and, within the Society of Jesus, has served as religious superior for three communities. Father Madden is a member of the Studies in Jesuit Spirituality Seminar and the North American Academy of Liturgy, on whose governing committee he has served. He earned a doctorate in theology and a diploma in liturgy from the University of Trier, in Germany.