About Fr. Gillgannon
My goal
Fr. Gillgannon's goal is to provide ethical and religious insights from personal experience and scholarly work into contemporary processes of globalization, particularly in Latin America, and to raise epistemological, theological and ethical questions important for human development.
My faith
Father Michael was ordained in 1958. He served in various parishes. He was Chaplain at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, 1965-1974.
My involvement
Father Michael was National Secretary of the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, 1972-1974. He served in La Paz, Bolivia as a missionary, 1974-2012; he was a parish priest with native Amarya people, 1974-1994. In 1994, he co-founded the Campus Ministry at the State University of La Paz, Bolivia. He has two honorary doctorates from universities in the USA. He continues to write on Latin American issues of human development and human rights. He speaks and lectures in both the United States and Latin America on Catholic social ethics and on economic development. He is particularly concerned with the consequences of globalization.