El Salvadorian priest to speak at Fairfield

PRESS RELEASE Father Dean Brackley, S.J., Ph.D. whose ministry has led him from Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the South Bronx to the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in El Salvador, Central America, spoke at Fairfield University and received an honorary doctor of laws degree on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Kelley Theatre of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. At UCA he teaches theology and ethics and does pastoral work in an urban community. The UCA is where Salvadoran armed forces in 1989 killed six Jesuit priests, including the university president, and their housekeeper and her daughter. In the 1970s and 1980s, Fr. Dean Brackley worked in social ministry and popular education on Manhattan¹s Lower East Side and in the South Bronx. He taught briefly at Fordham University from 1989-90 before joining the staff of the UCA.