近日，敦伯学院联盟校、北美耶稣会大学协会（AJCU）成员校——波士顿学院，举办第148届毕业典礼。中国香港教区主教周守仁枢机受邀在典礼上发表致辞，波士顿学院校长William P. Leahy向周枢机及其他四位杰出人士颁发荣誉学位。以下是周枢机的学位颁授词。
周守仁枢机（前排左一）、波士顿学院校长William P. Leahy（前排中）、波士顿助理主教Cristiano G. Borro Barbosa（后排右一）以及其他四位荣誉学位获得者
周守仁枢机一生致力于教育、天主教信仰及社会公益事业。作为中国香港教区主教，他2023年9月被教宗方济各任命为枢机，肩负促进梵蒂冈与中国文化交流的重要使命，努力改善梵蒂冈与中国长达70多年的无外交关系状况。为实现这一目标，周枢机积极推动中国香港与北京之间的主教交流活动，希望自己的家乡中国香港能够成为连接罗马和北京的桥梁。2023年4月，他曾访问过北京，成为近40年来首次访问大陆的中国香港主教。晋升为枢机不久，他便邀请北京总主教区的李山主教于11月访问中国香港，成功促成了北京主教首次访港，促进了双方的接触与交流。
周枢机热衷于教育事业，曾任香港两所耶稣会学校的校监、耶稣会中华省教育委员会主席，现为香港教区圣神修院客座教授。2018年至2021年担任耶稣会中华省省会长期间，他与TBC合作，秉承16世纪中西文化交流使者利玛窦的传统，加强中国与其他文化之间的对话和友谊。
周守仁枢机（左）与TBC执行总监古嘉文
作为一名学者，周枢机曾获明尼苏达大学心理学学位、爱尔兰耶稣会米尔敦神哲学院哲学学位、香港圣神修院神学学位、芝加哥洛约拉大学组织发展学位，并于2006年获得哈佛大学人类发展与心理学博士学位。由于周守仁枢机致力于通过天主教信仰激励和鼓舞他人，促进不同文化的合作，波士顿学院特授予他荣誉法学博士学位，以表彰其杰出贡献。
Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., has dedicated his life to promoting education, the Catholic faith, and the common good. As the bishop of Hong Kong, named cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023, he has worked diligently to improve relations between the Vatican and China, which have lacked diplomatic ties for more than 70 years. Longing for his native Hong Kong to be a bridge-building church between Rome and Beijing, he became the first Hong Kong bishop in nearly four decades to visit the Chinese capital, and hosted Beijing’s Archbishop Joseph Li Shan in the first-ever visit by a Beijing bishop to Hong Kong. A devoted supporter of education, he has served as the supervisor of two Jesuit colleges in Hong Kong, chair of the Commission for Education of the Jesuit Province in China, and as a professor of psychology at the Holy Spirit Seminary of Hong Kong. While province superior of the Chinese Jesuits from 2018 to 2021, he worked with The Beijing Center to enhance dialogue and friendship between China and other cultures—in the tradition of 16th-century Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, S.J. A renowned scholar, he earned degrees in psychology from the University of Minnesota, philosophy from Dublin’s Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, theology from the Holy Spirit Seminary, organizational development from Loyola University of Chicago, and human development and psychology from Harvard University, where he received a doctoral degree in 2006. For his commitment to the Catholic faith as a means to inspire and unite, Boston College awards Cardinal Stephen Chow, S.J., the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
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北美耶稣会大学协会（AJCU）：是美国历史悠久、极具规模的教育联盟组织，在世界上久负盛名。其成员院校包括乔治城大学、波士顿学院、圣塔克拉拉大学等28所北美知名大学和学院。敦伯学院所隶属的北京中国学中心（TBC）是AJCU全球合作伙伴、是中国大陆唯一的一所耶稣会高等教育学府。
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