Rev. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., the Francis C. Wade, S.J., Chair at Marquette and professor of history at Boston College, will deliver the 2025 Rev. Francis Wade, S.J., Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. in the Raynor Library Beaumier Suites BC. A reception will follow.
Gallagher is interested in religion and right-wing movements, the Holocaust, American Catholicism, Vatican diplomacy and the intersection of religion and espionage. His current Wade Chair project looks at how German intelligence recruited, retained and used Catholic clerics to act as spies in the United States during World War II.
Gallagher has written multiple award-winning books. He was honored with the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for “Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII” (Yale University Press, 2008) and received a Catholic Press Association Award for History for “Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten History of the Christian Front” (Harvard University Press, 2021).
In 2017, Gallagher was the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust and the Jews at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Rev. Francis Wade, S.J., was a longtime member of the Marquette Jesuit community and Department of Philosophy. Arriving at Marquette in 1945, he became and remained a beloved professor and esteemed role model for students, a diligent and student-oriented scholar who supported other faculty while guiding Marquette’s Department of Philosophy to a position of significant stature. In 1988, the university received a gift from the Marquette Jesuit community endowing a chair in honor of Father Wade and in recognition of his contribution to the university and Jesuit community.