Past Events

2007-2008 Programs and Events

Fall 2007 Lecture: After Regensburg: Where Catholic-Muslim Dialogue is Today
Nov. 8, 2007, Dr. Sandra Keating for more info.  View Dr. Keating's lecture.

Spring 2008 Lecture: Going After a Life: The Myth and Mystery of Vocation
March 27, 2008, Dr. Anne Patrick more info.  View Dr. Patrick's lecture.

Discussion Series: Engaging the Tradition
November 29, 2008
Education within the Benedictine Wisdom Tradition
Statement of the Association of Benedictine Colleges and Universities (ABCU), August 2007, more info

March 3, 2008
The Benedictine Wisdom Tradition Meets the Catholic Intellectual Tradition: Shall We Gather at the Altar
Paper presented by Mary Collins, OSB, of Mount Saint Scholastica Monastery, Atchison, Kansas, at the annual meeting of the ABCU, June 2007, more info

Past Events

"World Christianity and Christian Mission:  Being Church in Asia"  with Peter Phan, Ellacuria Chair in Catholic Thought at Georgetown University.  More info

"God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It", with Jim Wallis, founder and director of Sojourners,  first annual Heritage Day at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University.  More info

"Environmental Justice:  Making Our Cities Green"  with John Coleman, Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University.  More info

"Is Your Spirituality Violent?"  with Tom Beaudoin, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. More info

"Vatican II to the Blogosphere:  Church and Politics today" with John Thavis, Vatican News Bureau Chief. More info

"The Vital Vote? Thinking Catholics and Politics" with Joe Feuerherd, Washington correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. More info

In spring 2003, Professor David O'Brien, Holy Cross College, a nationally recognized historian of American Catholicism and culture, spoke to faculty and students, as the first Koch Visiting Professor.

John T. McGreevy, noted Catholic historian from the University of Notre Dame, presented "The Eliot School Rebellion, Boston, 1859: Education, Slavery and the Nineteenth Century Catholic Revival." He is the John A. O'Brien Associate Professor of history and chair of the department. More info