Berkley Center

Rev. Dennis D. McManus is professor of theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Since 2009 he has served as delegate for Jewish affairs for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. From 2012 to 2021, he was visiting professor and associate director of the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, where he continues as senior research fellow. McManus has written widely on the intersection of Catholic liturgy and Judaism, highlighting the unfinished business of the implementation of Nostra Aetate in the Roman Rite. In 1997, he helped found the Anti-Defamation League’s program of Holocaust education for Catholic teachers in the United States, Bearing Witness, and continues teacher education on Jews, Judaism, and Catholic-Jewish relations with new programs through the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights.