David W Tracy was born on 1939 and is an American theologian and Roman Catholic priest.
16 Facts About David Tracy
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David Tracy is Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Catholic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
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David Tracy was born on January 6,1939, to John Charles Tracy and Eileen Marie Tracy in Yonkers, New York.
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David Tracy's father was a union organizer who liked to read Henry Adams to his children.
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David Tracy was ordained in Rome on December 18,1963, and served in the diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1963.
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David Tracy received his Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Gregorianum in 1964, after which he spent one year at a parish in Stamford, Connecticut.
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David Tracy has said that he had always wanted to work in a parish, but during his one year of doing so, he felt a strong call to the academic life.
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David Tracy returned to Rome and received his doctorate from the Gregorian University in 1969.
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David Tracy's first academic teaching appointment was a lectureship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he began in 1967.
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In 1968, David Tracy joined with Bernard McGinn and twenty other professors at CUA in rejecting Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae vitae.
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In 1985, David Tracy was named a Distinguished Service Professor there, and in 1987, a Distinguished Service Professor of Roman Catholic Studies.
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David Tracy held the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professorship in Roman Catholic Studies, which was established in 1984 by Roman Catholic priest, sociologist and novelist Andrew Greeley.
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David Tracy served on Chicago's Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and Methods and the Committee on Social Thought.
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David Tracy remained at the Divinity School until his retirement in late 2006.
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David Tracy served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America from 1976 to 1977.
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In 2018, David Tracy contributed an essay to the catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.