Rev. Msgr. Joseph Chapel , S.T.D.
Associate Spiritual Director, Immaculate Conception Seminary; Director of Permanent
Diaconate Formation, Archdiocese of Newark
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
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Rev. Msgr. Joseph Chapel, S.T.D.
Associate Spiritual Director, Immaculate Conception Seminary; Director of Permanent
Diaconate Formation, Archdiocese of Newark
Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology
Reverend Monsignor Joseph R. Chapel, S.T.D., Associate Spiritual Director, earned an M.A. in International Relations from the Paul S. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University. He also earned an S.T.B. from The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, and an S.T.L. and an S.T.D. from Accademia Alfonsiana (Lateran University), Rome. His doctoral dissertation is titled "Why Confess Our Sins Out Loud? An Analysis Based on the Dialogical Philosophy of Ferdinand Ebner in Light of the Philosophy of Language and the Symbolic Sacramentology of Louis-Marie Chauvet." Ordained to the priesthood in 1992, Monsignor Chapel has taught Moral Theology, Reconciliation & Anointing and Preaching Practicum and has served as a member of the theological faculty of the Pastoral Provision. His research and writing have focused on the intersection of Dialogical Personalist Philosophy with Sacramental Theology.
Monsignor Chapel has served the Seminary in varied capacities, among them as professor, mentor, spiritual director, confessor, Associate Dean, Co-Director of the Institute for Christian Spirituality and Director of the Center for Diaconal Formation. In Spring 2009, he was named Chaplain to His Holiness with the title of Monsignor. In 2014, Monsignor Chapel accepted the appointment as Spiritual Director of the Casa Santa Maria in Rome, Italy. In 2017 he became Pastor of Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Park Ridge, NJ and subsequently, Pastor of St. Andrew Church, Westwood, NJ. He currently serves as Director of Permanent Diaconate Formation for the Archdiocese of Newark.
Education
- S.T.D., Accademia Alfonsiana (Lateran University), Rome
- S.T.L., Accademia Alfonsiana (Lateran University), Rome
- S.T.B., The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
- M.A., International Relations, Paul S. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
- B.A., Rutgers University
Scholarship
- Introduction and General Editor, with Harold J. Green, trans., and Kryzsztof Skorulski, The Word and the Spiritual Realities, translation, Ferdinand Ebner, Das Wort und die geistigen realitäten (Vienna, 1921). (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2021).
- “Ferdinand Ebner: na początku było słowo” [“In the Beginning Was the Word”], in Paedagogia Christiana 35, no. (2015): 99-109
- “Das Wort im Sakrament der Beichte” [“The Word in the Sacrament of Confession”], trans. Markus Flatscher, in Ermenegildo Bidese, Richard Hörmann, Silvano Zucal, eds., Pneumatologie als Grammatik der Subjektivität: Ferdinand Ebner (Wien/Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2012), 181-192.
- "Philosophy as Preparation for Sacramental Theology and Moral Life", Seminary Journal, March 2011
- “Philosophy in the Ongoing Renewal of Moral Theology: Dialogical Personalism Revisited,” Studia Moralia 40 (June, 2002): 205-236.
- "Dialogical Personalism Revisited" (Studia Moralia)