Edward B. Arroyo, S.J.
Loyola University New Orleans, Box 24
6363 St. Charles Ave.
New Orleans, LA
70118
Phone: 504-861-5736; Cell: 504-261-5736; Fax: 504-861-5414
Send me e-mail arroyo@loyno.edu
Ted Arroyo, S.J. currently edits the monthly Blueprint for Social Justice at Loyola University New Orleans as part of his social justice ministry at Loyola's Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice. He serves as resident chaplain in Loyola's Cabra Hall, and occasionally offers courses at Loyola, especially in Catholic Social Thought. He also serves as minister of the Jesuit Community at Loyola University, and as New Orleans support person for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
On a quarter time basis, Ted also directs a research project on Ethics in Public Policy in collaboration with the Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University, coordinating a team of scholars and practitioners with the goal of developing a set of ethical guidelines for the profession of public policy advocacy (a.k.a. "lobbying"). Georgetown University Press published the first book coming from this project, The Ethics of Lobbying: Organized Interests, Political Advocacy, and the Common Good in September, 2002. You may want to download an order form for the book. You can also read a summary of the Woodstock Forum on this topic, as well as an article from Loyola Today about this project. There is also a recent article about this project in the National Jesuit News.
Prior to this ministry at Loyola, Ted has served as provincial of the New Orleans Province Jesuits, superior of the Jesuit formation community and the Loyola University faculty community in New Orleans, missionary in Paraguay, and professor of sociology at Loyola University.
He has a Ph. D. in Sociology from Duke University, and theological degrees from Woodstock College when it was affiliated with Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He did his undergraduate studies in sociology and philosophy at Spring Hill College.
Ted was ordained a Jesuit priest on June 7, 1975. In the summer of 2000 he celebrated his 25th anniversary as a priest.
Ted is particularly interested in furthering the Jesuit mission of faith doing justice through his research and activism at Loyola's Twomey Center. A man of many hobbies, his current personal avocations include bicycling, cooking, genealogy, photography, short wave radio and watercolors.
