Father Terry Tekippe This is Me

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1. 1. Msgr. Tekippe does unexpectedly during Greek stay

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   Published on: 7/13/2005   Last Visited: 8/8/2005

   To listen to his seminary classmates talk, Terry Tekippe was one of those students who might have been easy to dislike - except for the fact everybody loved him.
   
   Photographic memory. Instant recall. An IQ of 187. A real know-it-all - who never tried to impress anyone with his awesome intellect.
   
   Msgr. Robert Massett, who studied for the priesthood with Msgr. Tekippe at St. Joseph Seminary College and at Notre Dame Seminary, remembered getting a religion book on the first day of class at St. Ben's. By the next day, Msgr. Tekippe had read the entire book.
   
   "When Father would teach from the book, Terry knew it already," Msgr.
   ...
   Tekippe could speak.
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   Tekippe, who was appreciated for his kindness and gentleness as well as for his brainpower.
   ...
   Tekippe was among those identified early on for advanced studies. Archbishop John Cody came to New Orleans in 1961 and arranged for Msgr. Tekippe, a second-year philosophy student at Notre Dame, to study at the North American College in Rome. He was eventually ordained in Rome on July 11, 1965.
   
   "They called the North American students the 'episcobili,'" Msgr. Massett said, referring to the likelihood that many of the Rome seminarians would go on to become bishops. "When Terry got to the North American, he wowed them with his mental prowess.
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   Tekippe in the early 1990s, said the professor always had his positions scoped out but was willing to listen to theological arguments.
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   His father Walter was a sales executive with Catholic Extension, a magazine highlighting the church's work in poor and rural dioceses in the U.S., who moved his family, which eventually numbered eight children, to New Orleans.
   
   He attended St. James Major Elementary School. His studies in Rome led to a licentiate in sacred theology from Gregorian University. In 1972, he earned a doctorate in theology from Fordham University and in 1980 he received a doctorate in philosophy from Tulane University. He was a parochial vicar at St. Rita Church, New Orleans, and served from 1986-88 as the director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education.
   
   He also taught at the Gregorian, Boston College and St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y., and was a scholar in residence at the North American College. He served on the U.S. Bishops' Committee on the Catechism and was named a monsignor in 1999.
   
   He wrote extensively on Father Lonergan, including "Papal Infallibility: An Application of Lonergan's Theological Method" in 1983.
   
   Msgr. Massett said just as St. Paul (2 Cor 5) had great courage and confidence that God "was with him every step of the way," Msgr. Tekippe showed the same courage in the 1960s when he walked with an African-American woman down the midway of Pontchartrain Beach during the time of segregation. That was the same time persons picketed in front of the archbishop's residence criticizing Archbishop Joseph Rummel for integrating Catholic schools.
   
   "Another sign of his courage and confidence was after Vatican II when he maintained a traditional approach to theology even though a lot of new ideas and a lot of psychology were floating around," Msgr. Massett said. "Terry really stuck with tradition and was very loyal to the teachings of the fathers of the church."
   
   Msgr. Massett said Msgr. Tekippe lived his life "as a real friend of Jesus who lifted up the world in which he lived, and now the Father was keeping his promise to reward anyone who would make the effort to become a man or woman after the manner of Jesus himself. ... (He lived) the life of what the modern theologian would call a 'resurrection man,' someone who is able to live life to the fullest on earth but with that great vision of what is really still to come."

2. 2. Clarion Herald - Vol. 43 No. 4 - February 11, 2004 - Official Catholic Newspaper of the Archdiocese of New Orleans

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   Published on: 2/11/2004   Last Visited: 8/27/2004

   Terry Tekippe, a professor at Notre Dame Seminary, have been researching the early life of Msgr.

3. 3. Msgr. Tekippe does unexpectedly during Greek stay

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   Published on: 7/13/2005   Last Visited: 9/5/2005

   To listen to his seminary classmates talk, Terry Tekippe was one of those students who might have been easy to dislike - except for the fact everybody loved him.
   
   Photographic memory. Instant recall. An IQ of 187. A real know-it-all - who never tried to impress anyone with his awesome intellect.
   
   Msgr. Robert Massett, who studied for the priesthood with Msgr. Tekippe at St. Joseph Seminary College and at Notre Dame Seminary, remembered getting a religion book on the first day of class at St. Ben's. By the next day, Msgr. Tekippe had read the entire book.
   
   "When Father would teach from the book, Terry knew it already," Msgr.
   ...
   Tekippe could speak.
   ...
   Tekippe, who was appreciated for his kindness and gentleness as well as for his brainpower.
   ...
   Tekippe was among those identified early on for advanced studies. Archbishop John Cody came to New Orleans in 1961 and arranged for Msgr. Tekippe, a second-year philosophy student at Notre Dame, to study at the North American College in Rome. He was eventually ordained in Rome on July 11, 1965.
   
   "They called the North American students the 'episcobili,'" Msgr. Massett said, referring to the likelihood that many of the Rome seminarians would go on to become bishops. "When Terry got to the North American, he wowed them with his mental prowess.
   ...
   Tekippe in the early 1990s, said the professor always had his positions scoped out but was willing to listen to theological arguments.
   ...
   His father Walter was a sales executive with Catholic Extension, a magazine highlighting the church's work in poor and rural dioceses in the U.S., who moved his family, which eventually numbered eight children, to New Orleans.
   
   He attended St. James Major Elementary School. His studies in Rome led to a licentiate in sacred theology from Gregorian University. In 1972, he earned a doctorate in theology from Fordham University and in 1980 he received a doctorate in philosophy from Tulane University. He was a parochial vicar at St. Rita Church, New Orleans, and served from 1986-88 as the director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education.
   
   He also taught at the Gregorian, Boston College and St. Joseph Seminary, Dunwoodie, N.Y., and was a scholar in residence at the North American College. He served on the U.S. Bishops' Committee on the Catechism and was named a monsignor in 1999.
   
   He wrote extensively on Father Lonergan, including "Papal Infallibility: An Application of Lonergan's Theological Method" in 1983.
   
   Msgr. Massett said just as St. Paul (2 Cor 5) had great courage and confidence that God "was with him every step of the way," Msgr. Tekippe showed the same courage in the 1960s when he walked with an African-American woman down the midway of Pontchartrain Beach during the time of segregation. That was the same time persons picketed in front of the archbishop's residence criticizing Archbishop Joseph Rummel for integrating Catholic schools.
   
   "Another sign of his courage and confidence was after Vatican II when he maintained a traditional approach to theology even though a lot of new ideas and a lot of psychology were floating around," Msgr. Massett said. "Terry really stuck with tradition and was very loyal to the teachings of the fathers of the church."
   
   Msgr. Massett said Msgr. Tekippe lived his life "as a real friend of Jesus who lifted up the world in which he lived, and now the Father was keeping his promise to reward anyone who would make the effort to become a man or woman after the manner of Jesus himself. ... (He lived) the life of what the modern theologian would call a 'resurrection man,' someone who is able to live life to the fullest on earth but with that great vision of what is really still to come."