Admonishing the Sinner*The Catholic Church's Role in the Struggle against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (details)
The Catholic Church in El Salvador led the push for the March 2017 law that made this small Central American nation the first in the world to ban metallic mining. Andrew McKinley, a water and mining specialist at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in San Salvador, was part of this Catholic effort and explains, in this talk, the devastating effects of metal mining and the strategies that led to passage of the 2017 law.
*Spiritual Works of Mercy Lecture Series
Counseling the Doubtful*A Nun on the Rise of "Nones" in Latin America (details to come)
Between 2014 and 2018, the percentage of Latin Americans claiming no religious affiliation more than doubled, from 8% to 17%. Geraldina Céspedes, OP, a missionary nun working in a marginalized neighborhood of Guatemala City, explains some of the reasons for this increasing number of "doubtful" and some of the ways the Catholic Church in Latin America is responding.
*Spiritual Works of Mercy Lecture Series
World Catholicism Week 2019Put Away Your Sword: Gospel Nonviolence in a Violent World (
details)
Is God nonviolent, and does God want us to renounce violence as well? In a violent world, does nonviolence work? In this conference, speakers from around the world—Libya, Kenya, Colombia, India, Brazil, Italy, Croatia, the U.S., and the Philippines—will explore these questions through 5 different lenses: theologies of nonviolence; martyrdom and the cross; practices of nonviolent peacebuilding and the "responsibility to protect"; gender and nonviolence; and grassroots church formation of people in the practice of nonviolence. Keynotes will be given by
- Mauro Garofalo—Head of International Relations, Community of Sant'Egidio
- Robert Emmet Meagher—Author, Killing from the Inside Out
Related Events in the Chicago Area
March 20 (5:15pm)
Financial Markets & Moral Inquiry: 
A Symposium on Economics & Catholic Social Thought
Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute.
University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
Chicago, IL 60637
Featuring
- Peter Cardinal Turkson (Prefect, Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development)
- J. Christopher Giancarlo (Chair, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
- Mary Hirschfield (Associate Professor of Economics & Theology, Villanova University)
- John Studzinski (Managing Director & Vice Chair, PIMCO)
Moderated by
Maureen O'Hara (Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Cornell University)