CANADIAN IS MADE RECTOR

A 45 YEAR OLD A-ACanadian Jesuit sociologist, Fr. Nerve Carrier, has been appointed Rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome's internationally famous centre of Catholic ecclesiastical scholarship.
Fr. Carrier has been a member of the Gregorian's Institute for Social Sciences for the past seven years. Before that, he taught at the Institut Catholique in Paris, in which city he also gained a doctorate in sociology at the Sorbonne.
Fr. Carrier succeeds as Rector of the Gregorian Belgianborn Jesuit Fr. Edward Dhanis, who will return to a teaching post as Professor of Theology at the university after he has had a muchneeded rest.
Announcing Fr. Carrier's appointment, Fr. Francis McColl, American scripture expert and new delegate of the Jesuit Superior general for affairs of the order's several international institutions in Rome, said that the new rector would bring to the Gregorian a broad range of educational experience as well as his recognised competency in the sociology of religion.
He made his ecclesiastical studies at the Jesuit theological seminary in Montreal, and received his early training in social sciences at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, and at Harvard University. Fr. Carrier is' particularly well qualified for his new post at a time when all major Catholic training and research centres in religious studies must undertake sweeping revisions in the light of the Vatican Council's norms for intellectual and religious renewal in the church.