Jesuit Saturdays: Sharing the Ignatian Spirit with Friends and Colleagues
William J. Byron, SJ, is University Professor of Business and Society at  St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He served as Distinguished Professor of  the Practice of Ethics in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown  University, rector of the Georgetown Jesuit community (1994–2000), president of  the Catholic University of America (1982–1992), president of the University of  Scranton (1975–1982), and dean of arts and sciences at Loyola University of New  Orleans (1973–1975). He has held faculty positions at Scranton Preparatory  School, Loyola College in Maryland, and Woodstock College. He entered the  Society of Jesus in 1950, was ordained to the priesthood in 1961, and received a  doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland in 1969.