Loyola Papers Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023)

In this issue of Loyola Papers, we humbly pay tribute to one of our former editors who was also the first Dean and later on President of Loyola School of Theology: Rev. Fr. Catalino G. Arévalo, S.J. (1925-2023) who passed away at the ripe age of 97 on January 18, 2023.

Hailed as the “Father of Asian Theology” by the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference, he was the secretary of the 1970 meeting of the Asian bishops with Pope Paul VI in Manila and served the Federation since then as its main theological peritus. He was the mind behind the programmatic document “Evangelization in Modern Day Asia” of the first FABC Plenary Assembly in 1974 and headed its “Theological Advisory Commission” for more than a decade.