Francis A. Sullivan

Francis Aloysius Sullivan, S.J. (born May 21, 1922) is a Catholic theologian and a Jesuit priest. He is best known for his research in the area of ecclesiology and the magisterium. Francis "Frank" A. Sullivan was born in Boston on May 21, 1922 to George Edward and Bessie [Peterson] Sullivan, the second of four boys. Raised in an actively Catholic household, Sullivan became interested in the possibility of life as a Jesuit and as a teacher through... more

Francis Aloysius Sullivan, S.J. (born May 21, 1922) is a Catholic theologian and a Jesuit priest. He is best known for his research in the area of ecclesiology and the magisterium. Francis "Frank" A. Sullivan was born in Boston on May 21, 1922 to George Edward and Bessie [Peterson] Sullivan, the second of four boys. Raised in an actively Catholic household, Sullivan became interested in the possibility of life as a Jesuit and as a teacher through the influence of Jesuit instructors he admired at Boston College High School, as well as his uncle Louis Sullivan, a Jesuit teaching at what was then known as Weston College (now the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry). Because Sullivan had been passed up two grades early in his education, he finished at Boston College High School when he was barely 16 years old, and immediately entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1938, which then allowed entry as early as the age of 15. The Jesuits' novitiate at that time was in the donated Berkshire... less