A FAME, PESTE ET BELLO, LIBERA NOS, DOMINE
Religious Orders, Public Health, and Disease
Thursday, May 20th, and Friday, May 21st
8:45 - 11:45 am, US Central Standard Time (CST)
In the current Covid-19 pandemic context, the symposium will consider how religious orders have played a key role in societies that had to deal with diseases that disrupted their lives or were part of their almost everyday life. Many paths will be explored to promote religious orders' dynamic historiography by emphasizing a comparative and transnational approach to their history.
The scope of the symposium will range from the Black Death to the present day.
Free and open to the public
The event will be held via Zoom (video conference)
Nonviolent Democratic Insurrection: The People Power Revolution in the Philippines, 1986.
Monday, February 1st, 2021, at 6:30 pm
Via Zoom (video conference)
In 1986, a nonviolent uprising over three days put an end to the right-wing military dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. The Catholic Church played a crucial role in the "People Power" revolution--images of nuns blocking tanks spread around the world. Catholic theologian Agnes Brazal took part in the uprising as a young person. In this online conversation, she will tell her story of those dramatic days, and discuss the wider implications for the Church's nonviolent defense of democracy in a world where democracy is increasingly threatened.
Free and open to the public
The event will be held via Zoom (video conference)
Zoom Conversation with Professor Zena Hitz
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020, at 6 pm
Via Zoom (video conference)
Professor Hitz teaches at St John's College in Annapolis, MD.
In her new book Lost in Thought: the Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life she argues that one of the most important things we can do as human beings is cultivated a life that sets aside time for us to think through essential questions about ourselves and our world.
We will be talking about her book and she came to connect the intellectual life with loving service. We will also discuss some of her intellectual and spiritual role models.
Free and open to the public
The event will be held via Zoom (video conference)
The Beauty of Faith
Interpreting Religious Art in a Public Museum
Thursday, May 21, 2020, at 6 pm
Via Zoom (video conference)
Like a well-mannered dinner guest, a museum curator avoids the public discussion of money and religion. Yet, much of the art in museum collections was shaped by faith and made for a religious purpose. Interpretations that focus solely on stylistic aesthetics leave much about the beauty and purpose of the piece unexplained. In this talk, I shall discuss the challenges of interpreting Christian art to a secular audience in a public museum.
Free and open to the public
The event will be held via Zoom (video conference)
Dignity - A Conversation with Chris Arnade
Thursday, May 7, 2020, at 6 pm
Via Zoom
After abandoning his Wall Street career, Chris Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens in McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. As Taskeesha, a woman in the Bronx told Arnade, she wants to be seen shes see herself: " a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind.
Free and open to the public
The event will be held via Zoom (video conference)
you will receive the link and information to join the event online
'The World Which Shall Be Our First': On Beauty and the Human Desire for Transcendence
Monday, March 8, 2020, at 6:00 pm
Arts and Letters Hall, Room 412
Jennifer Newsome Martin, Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at University of Notre Dame
Sacraments and Friendship
Tuesday, January 14, 2020, at 5:00 pm
Arts and Letters Hall, Room 414
Brandon McGinley is a Catholic writer and speaking based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a regular contributor to the Scottish Catholic Observer and Angelus News, the magazine of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Right now, Brandon is working on three books to be released this year: on the virtue of religion and the just society with Dr. Scott Hahn, on renewing the Church in America for Sophia Institute Press, and on the Catholic history and present of his hometown of Pittsburgh.
Our Lady of Chicago: The Surprising Story of our Northern Guadalupe
Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at 5:00 pm
McGowan South, Room 108
Who is Our Lady of Chicago? Which of the city’s countless images of the Virgin Mary best encapsulate the spirit of this city and its land? After surveying various candidates for this title, this lecture will argue for our very own Northern Guadalupe. This particular image encapsulates the forced removal of Chicago’s indigenous inhabitants, a story that all Chicago residents – native or not – too easily forget.