Robert Lassalle-Klein is the grandchild of Basque migrants and co-founder of the Oakland
Catholic Worker, providing hospitality and family services to Spanish-speaking migrants since
1986. He is a lecturer in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries at Santa Clara University,
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Philosophy (Holy Names University), and Associate
Director of Deacon and Lay Formation for the Diocese of San Jose. He has the following degrees:
Ph.D. (Systematic Theology and New Testament), Graduate Theological Union; M.Div. and
S.T.L., Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara; M.S.W., San Jose State; M.A. (Phil), Gonzaga;
Lic. Phil.., St. Michael’s Institute; B.A. (English), SCU.
Bob has taught at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, the Jesuit School of Theology of
Santa Clara, DePaul University in Chicago, Santa Clara University, and the Universitat Ramon
Llul, in Barcelona, Spain.
He did his dissertation with Jon Sobrino, S.J., survivor of the Jesuit
assassinations at the University of Central America in 1989, and published Blood and Ink:
Ignacio Ellacuría, Jon Sobrino, and the Jesuit Martyrs of the University of Central
America (Orbis 2014; Spanish, U. Iberoamericana 2024). Other publications include Jesus of
Nazareth Among the Nations: One Gospel, Many Voices (Crossroads/ Herder, 2020), Jon
Sobrino: Spiritual Writings (Orbis, 2018), Jesus of Galilee: Contextual Christology for the 21st
Century (Orbis, 2011), The Galilean Jesus (Theological Studies, 2009), and Love That Produces
Hope: The Thought of Ignacio Ellacuría (with Kevin Burke, S.J., Liturgical/Glazier, 2006).
Bob is a deacon assigned to the Spanish-speaking community of San Jose and serves as
consultant for Higher Education for the USCCB Region XI Seminar on Formation of Hispanic
Ministry. His current projects include Voices of Migrants and Refugees; Jesus the Migrant; and
Hiroshima and God.