Preserving the Catholic and Jesuit Intellectual Tradition in the 21st Century
The Los Angeles Lonergan Center was established by Dr. Mark D. Morelli, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, in June of 1995 with the assistance and support of Rev. Thomas P. O'Malley, S.J., then President of Loyola Marymount University. The assembly of the Center's holdings was begun in the early 1980s by Rev. Timothy P. Fallon, S.J., a student of Bernard Lonergan and Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University. The Center was located at Santa Clara University and directed by Fr. Fallon from 1982 until 1995. After Fr. Fallon's death, the Center and the annual conference associated with it were transferred to Loyola Marymount University.
Upon Professor Morelli’s retirement in the Spring of 2022, the remainder of the Center’s holdings was digitized or transferred. In the Summer of 2022, Dr. Scott J. Roniger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, took over as Director of the Lonergan Center in order to continue its mission of handing on the Catholic intellectual tradition.