Dr. Melanie L. Harris presents an approach to climate change that centers the voices of women of African descent. Specifically, it highlights the contributions that black women environmental scientists, researchers, religious leaders and spiritual activists make to the environmental justice movement. [...]
From filming the poor to living with the poor, Gerard Thomas Straub (gerardstraub.com) discovered a wisdom that can only be learned by living the Gospel in a radical way. [...]
Catholic Social Thought & our Complicity in Harms to Distant Others Presented by Dr. Daniel FinnMonday, September 30, 2024 Daniel K. Finn is Professor Emeritus of Theology and Clemens Professor Emeritus of Economics at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict. [...]
A Conversation with Dr. Myriam Wijlens Tuesday, April 9 in Emmaus Chapel & Dining Room Myriam Wijlens, PhD, official consultor to the Synod on Synodality, is a professor of Canon Law in the faculty of Catholic theology at the University of Erfurt and co-moderator of the Peter and Paul Seminar. [...]
What has the church heard in the worldwide synod? Where will this process take the church in the future? How will the synod impact the way the church sees itself and how it operates? Luncheon Interview with Cathy Clifford & Kristin Colberg 12:00-1:15 p.m.Thursday, February 22, 2024Room 120, Gorecki Center at Saint Ben’s Dr. [...]
In Catholic discourse, concern for racial justice and LGBTQ inclusion are often treated in isolation. This presentation offers an intersectional approach to racial and sexual justice by exploring the challenge that white Christian nationalism poses to both our democracy and to vulnerable populations. [...]
In this workshop, Kristin Heyer will discuss the common good tradition in Catholic social thought with special attention to its ‘growing edges’ and curricular implications. [...]
Dr. Christopher Southgate joins faculty and staff to discuss with us the perennial question: How do we understand divine presence in the context of extreme suffering? We will read a chapter written by Chris entitled “God’s Involvement in Events that Cause Great Suffering. [...]
Redrawing Line(s) in a Post-Truth Empire where the Bad Guys are Winning Dr. Jon Pahl Globally, authoritarian regimes have increasingly employed religion to reinforce nationalism – in Russia, India, Turkey, Brazil, and the United States, for just a few examples. [...]
Dr. David Hollenbach will deliver the annual College of Saint Benedict Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture Lecture, “The Global Common Good in a World of Rising Nationalism.” Dr. [...]
Dr. Elizabeth Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, explored the idea that God creates by empowering the evolving world of species to make itself, all the while accompanying this world through its suffering and emergence into endless forms most beautiful, in her presentation, “Creation and Evolution: Darwin and God Today. [...]
Dr. Traci West, a prominent womanist Christian ethicist, delivered the MLK keynote address on Monday, January 21, 2019. A book discussion luncheon with Dr. West was held to discuss her scholarship on gender violence and the possibility of an antiracist liberative social ethic. The luncheon was held on Monday, January 21, 2019 in Gorecki 120 at 12:00 noon. [...]
Teresa Delgado, Speaker for the 2018 Koch Chair Lecture The Koch Lecture was held on September 20, 2018 in Gorecki 200 at 7:30 p.m. “Reimagining Decolonial Futures: Puerto Rico, God-Talk and Seeking the Common Good. [...]
I am happy to announce that Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Kate Hennessy, will be delivering a lecture, “The World Will Be Saved by Beauty” on April 17, 2018 in Gorecki 204. [...]
Thursday, January 18, 2018 7:00pm, Gorecki 204 A&B, CSBA Conversation about Economic Justice Tuesday, February 13, 2018 7:00pm, Quad 264, SJU A Conversation about Immigrants in the Public Arena Tuesday, March 13, 2018 7:00pm, Gorecki 204 A&B, CSB View the videos of these Conversations here. http://www.csbsju. [...]
Dr. Bryan Massingale, a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University and Catholic priest, will be the keynote speaker for Martin Luther King, Jr. week. His talk, “Redeeming the Soul of America: The Challenge of King’s Vision to the Faith Community” will take place on Tuesday, January 16 at 7 p.m. [...]
Christopher Pramuk is currently associate professor of theology at Xavier University. In August 2017, he will move to Regis University and begin a new role as the University Chair of Ignatian Thought. [...]
The following event was cosponsored by the Koch Chair for Catholic Thought & Culture: The film Silence, based on a novel written by Shusaku Endo [...]
Author and theologian M. Shawn Copeland will deliver the Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 26, in room 204, Gorecki Center, College of Saint Benedict. Her lecture, entitled “Compassion Matters,” is free and open to the public. [...]
In his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis challenges us to respect the environment and attend to the needs of the poor, but are these goals even compatible? According to the dominant iew of our age, economic growth is the best remedy for poverty, yet a strong economy compromises the environment. In Laudato Si, Dr. [...]
Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology at Brown University discussed the tendencies of evolutionary science being at leggerheads with religion.Miller set fourth his own ideas about increasing public understanding of science with the knowledge that evolution can be seen as a result of God’s creative work. [...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. in Gorecki 204B This event was co-sponsored by CSB Sustainability, CSB Campus Ministry, the Department of Peace Studies, the Department of Environmental Studies, the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, and the Catholic Climate Covenant. [...]
The College of Saint Benedict Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture hosted its annual fall lecture featuring Kristin Heyer, Bernard J. Hanley Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University. Dr. [...]
Book-Lunch Discussion Group: Mary Syzbist, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for poetry, discusses her most recent work: Incarnadine. Friday, October 3, 2014 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. In her gorgeous second collection, Mary Szybist blends traditional and experimental aesthetics to recast the mysth of the Biblical Mary for this era. [...]
An engaging discussion with Bishop Kettler was held in Brother Willie’s Pub. All majors and ages were invited and pizza was served. This event was co-sponsored by The Eugene J. [...]
Sallie McFague Luncheon Book Discussion Group: Blessed are the Consumers, Climate Change and the Practice of Restraint by Sallie McFague February 5 and February 19, 2014 “Given our twin planetary crises of climate change and unjust financial distribution, what is needed is not more information but the will to move from belief to action, from denial to… [...]
Professor Stephen Pope of Boston College delivered his lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22 in Quadrangle Building 264, Saint John’s University. Pope is a professor of theology at Boston College, where he has taught since receiving his Ph.D. in theological ethics at the University of Chicago in 1988. [...]
“Forgiveness in the Service of Justice”Lecture by Dr. Margaret FarleyWednesday, September 11, 7:30 p.m.Gorecki 204, College of Saint Benedict This lecture addressed key societal and interpersonal issues regarding the meaning and appropriateness of “forgiving” and “being-forgiven.” Against backgrounds of violence, oppression, fractured relationships, the 21st century has seen unprecedented concern for these issues. [...]
