2018-2019 Public Lecture Series
Robert Louis Wilken (UVA Religious Studies), “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom,” April 26, 2019
“Meditation, Prayer, Contemplation” Conference, cosponsored with the International Network in Philosophy of Religion; UVA Department of Philosophy, April 6, 2019:
Christina Gschwandtner, Fordham University, “Habits of Repetition: Phenomenological Reflections on Practices of Prayer in the Eastern Christian Tradition”
Chris Hackett, Belmont College, “The Prayer of the Heart: An Apophatics of the Sensible in St. Symeon's Three Methods of Prayer”
Charles Kromkowski, University of Virginia, “What is Prayer? Rereading Aquinas’s Philosophical Reflections on Justice and Prayer as a Kind of Equality”
Jorge Secada, University of Virginia, “St. Teresa of Ávila and Descartes on Self-knowledge”
Adam Wells, Emory & Henry College, “Fantasy and the Apocalyptic Imagination”
Richard Kearney, Boston College, “St. Teresa of Avila's Many Mansions,” April 5, 2019
Rusty Reno, First Things, “Christianity in Public Life,” cosponsored with Thomistic Institute and Center for Christian Studies, Feb. 7, 2019
Sr. Prudence Allen, RSM, “The Concept of Women: Newman and the Proof of the Integral Complementarity of Woman and Man,” Jan. 31, 2019
Roberta Ervine, St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, “St. Gregory of Narek: The Newest Doctor of the Church!” Nov. 29, 2018
Fr. John McNerney, Catholic University of America, “The Wealth of Persons: Rethinking Economics in Light of the Human Person,” Nov. 8, 2018
2017-2018 Public Lecture Series
2016-17 Public Lecture Series
Ramon Mujica, "St. Rose of Lima: Icon of the Americas," April 6, 2017
Brad Wilcox (University of Virginia), "Catholic Social Teaching Series: On Happiness and Marriage," March 27, 2017
Jorge Secada (University of Virginia), "Descartes and the Journey of the Mind to God," February 23, 2017
Reinhard Hütter, (Catholic University of America), "The Development of Doctrine and Why it Matters: The Ongoing Relevance of John Henry Newman's Thought," November 5, 2016
Joseph Davis, Nichole Flores and Robert McCarthy (University of Virginia), "Catholic Social Teaching Series: On Laudato Si," November 4, 2016
Charles Kromkowski and Lynn Sanders (University of Virginia), "Catholic Social Teaching Series: On Voting," October 17, 2016
Eamon Duffy, (University of Cambridge), "Recreating Poussin's Seven Sacraments," October 21, 2016
Bernard McGinn, (University of Chicago), “St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae,” September 22, 2016
2015-16 Public Lecture Series
Carlos Eire, (Yale University), "Discerning the gulf between the Protestant and Catholic Reformations: The Case of Sor Maria de Agreda," April 7, 2016
Emmanuel Falque, (Institut Catholique de Paris), “God, the Flesh, and the Other,” March 3, 2016
Faculty Panel Discussion on Laudato Si, February 19, 2016
Fr. George Coyne, SJ, (Emeritus Director, Vatican Observatory), “Reading the Universe as an Icon of God,” January 21, 2016
Michael Root, (Catholic University of America) “Speaking of the Other: the 50th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate,” October 29, 2015
David Tracy, (University of Chicago), “God as Infinity,” October 1, 2015
2014-15 Public Lecture Series
Wolfgang Koch, (University of Bonn), "Charlemagne, Adenauer, and the Crisis of European Union," May 6, 2015
Margo Fassler, (University of Notre Dame), "St. Hildegard's Hexaemeron in Art and Music" April 9, 2015
Ulrich Lehner, (Marquette University), "Enlightenment Saints in the Age of Reason," March 5, 2015
Anthony J. Godzieba, (Villanova University), "On the Road to Emmaus: Catholicism, Art, and the Incarnational Imagination." February 5, 2015
David Lantigua, (Catholic University of America), “Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (1484-1566), the Church of the Poor, and the Origins of Human Rights,” November 21, 2015
William Cavanaugh, (Depaul University), "Economics and Christian Desire: Milton Friedman, St. Augustine, and the Local Development of a Global Moral Economy," September 25, 2014
2013-14 Public Lecture Series
Veronica Mary Rolf, "Julian's Gospel: Illuminating the Life & Revelations of Julian of Norwich," March 19, 2014
Charles Chaput, OFM, (Archbishop of Philadelphia) "City Upon a Hill: Augustine, John Winthrop and the soul of the American Experiment Today," February 18, 2014
Fr. David Link, (University of Notre Dame Law School, Dean Emeritus) "Mercy, Justice, and the Imprisoned: Serving the Least, the Last, the Lost, and the Lonely," November 7, 2013
Hon. Antonin Scalia, (U.S. Supreme Court) "Not to the Wise: The Christian as Cretin," October 3, 2013
2012-13 Public Lecture Series
Fr. Sidney Griffith, (Catholic University of Virginia) "Christianity in the World of Islam: In the Shadow of the Mosque," April 18, 2013
Robert Louis Wilken, (University of Virginia) "The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity," March 22, 2013
Fr. Peter Funk, OSB, (Monastery of the Holy Cross) "What Makes Sacred Music Sacred," February 6, 2013
Br. Timothy Ferrell, OSB, (Monastery of the Holy Cross) "Contemplation, Prayer, Vocation, " February 5, 2013
Eleonore Stump, (St. Louis University) "The Problem of Suffering: A Thomistic Defense," January 17, 2013
Fr. Joseph Komonchak, (Catholic University of America) "Vatican II: 50 Years Later," November 17, 2013
Angela O'Donnell, (Fordham University) "St. Sinatra, Saintliness, and the Catholic Poetic Imagination," October 4, 2013
2011-12 Public Lecture Series
Brad Gregory, (University of Notre Dame) "The Unintended Reformation: How a religious Revolution Secularized Society," April 19, 2013
Robert Louis Wilken, (University of Virginia) "The Catholic Roots of Religious Freedom," January 25, 2013
Hans Joas, (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Chicago) "Waves of Secularization: An Alternative Explanation of "Religious Decline," November 18, 2012
Reinhard Hütter, (Duke University) "The Lost Edges of the Modern Research University: A Catholic Philosophical Critique," September 16, 2012
2010-11 Public Lecture Series
Thomas F.X. Noble, (University of Notre Dame History Department), "Faith Taking Shape: Early Christianity and the Arts," April 7, 2011
Catholic University of America Chamber Choir, "A Winter's Evening Concert," Leo Nestor, conductor, February 18, 2011
Richard Garnett, (University of Notre Dame Law School), "Positive Secularism: Understanding the Separation of Church and State," February 4, 2011
George Weigel, "The Life and Legacy of Pope John Paul II," Nov.ember 19, 2010
Miklos Veto, "Approaches to God in the Philosophy of Jean Luc Marion," Octember 19, 2010
Trent Pomplun, (Loyola University-Maryland), "Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet," October 7, 2010
2009-10 Public Lecture Series
Elizabeth Schiltz, (University of St. Thomas Law School), "Taking Complementarity Seriously: A Catholic Approach to Gender Differences, Feminism, and Public Policy," April 9, 2010
Robert Louis Wilken, (University of Virginia), "Catholicism and Culture," March 25, 2010
Paul Mariani, (Boston College), "The Life and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.," October 22, 2009
Fr. Brendan McAnerney, O.P. "Holy Icons-Holy Churches," September 30, 2009
2008-09 Public Lecture Series
David Solomon, (University of Notre Dame), “The Assault on Human Dignity: Can Bioethics Do Without it?” April 16, 2009
Stephen Barr, (Physics Department, University of Delaware), “Modern Physics and Ancient Faith” February 18, 2009
Bernard McGinn, (University of Chicago Divinity School), “The Imitation of Christ and the Catholic Mystical Tradition,” February 12, 2009
Anthony Esolen, (Providence College), “Dante: The Prison of Autonomy, the Freedom of Obedience” November 5, 2008
Augustine Thompson, O.P., (University of Virginia) “The Quest for the Historical Francis of Assisi” October 1, 2008
2007-08 Public Lecture Series
Lamin Sanneh, (Yale University) March 26, 2008: "The Fall of Constantinople and the Fall of the Twin Towers"
William Mahrt, (Music Department, Stanford University), February 20, 2008: “What Makes Music Sacred?” with vocal accompaniment by early music vocal ensemble Zephyrus, directed by Paul Walker, University of Virginia Music Department
Mark C. Murphy, (Philosophy Department, Georgetown University), November 14, 2007: “God and Nature in Natural Law”
Mother Assumpta Long, O.P., September 26, 2007:“The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Christian Life”
2006-2007 Public Lecture Series
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., March 22, 2007: “Catholicism in Post-Protestant America”
John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame, February 20, 2007:“Augustine's City of God and Political Realism”
Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame, November 16, 2006: “The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Matriarchs of Israel”
James Ceaser (Politics), Abdulazziz Sachedina (Religious Studies), Jorge Secada (Philosophy), Robert Wilken (Religious Studies) November, 15, 2006: “Benedict XVI on ‘Faith, Reason and the University’: The Regensburg Address in Context”
Columba Stewart, OSB, St. John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, September 27, 2006: “Living a Simple Life”
2005-06 Public Lecture Series
James Murphy, Dartmouth, April 4, 2006: “A Catholic Perspective on Work”
Msgr. Francis Mannion, St. Vincent de Paul Church, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 21, 2006: “The Liturgy as Festival of the Future World”
Evelyn Vitz, New York University, January 24, 2006: “The Sacredness of Time and Life’s Rhythms”
Edward Oakes, S.J., St. Mary of the Lake University, Mundelein, November 15, 2005: “Unreal Words: Truth and Beauty”
Paul Griffiths, Catholic Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, October 25, 2005: “The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Catholicism and the Meaning of Study”
Carol Zaleski, Smith College, September 20, 2005:“The Two Benedicts and the Renewal of Catholic Culture"
2004-05 Public Lecture Series
Daniel Sulmasy, O.vF. M., M.D., Bioethics Institute, New York Medical College, April 5, 2005:“Catholic Christianity and the Meaning of Healing”
Sr. Carol Taylor, C.S.F.N., Georgetown Center for Clinical Bioethics, March 1, 2005:“Spiritual Care for the Seriously Ill and Dying”
Margaret Hogan, University of Portland, February 1, 2005: “Genetic Testing: Cui Bono?”
Robert Boyle, M.D., University of Virginia Medical School, Nov.15, 2004: “Moral Dilemmas at the Beginning and End of Life”
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., Georgetown University, Oct. 19, 2004: “Modern Bioethics and the Catholic Moral Tradition”
Robert P. George, Princeton University, October 5, 2004: “The Embryo Question: Justice and Nascent Human Life”
2003-04 Public Lecture Series
Fr. Michael Baxter, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame, April 21, 2004: "Beyond Liberal and Conservative Catholicism"
Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa, March 30, 2004: "Catholic Social Doctrine in Historical Perspective"
Joseph Bottum, Feb. 17, 2004: "Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust"
Peter Steinfels, Columnist, The New York Times, November 11, 2003: "Catholics in the Public Square: The Case for Liberal Catholicism"
Sr. Mary Rose McGeady, Covenant House, October 21, 2003: "Ministry to Street Kids: A Challenge to the Church"
Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, First Things, Sept. 30, 2003: "After Nihilism"
2002-03 Public Lecture Series
Christopher L Shannon, Christendom College, April 2, 2003: "A Catholic Critique of Multiculturalism"
Gregory Wolfe, editor, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, March 17, 2003:“Ever Ancient, Ever New: Contemporary Catholic Visual Artist”
Duncan Stroik, Notre Dame School of Architecture, November 12, 2002: “Beauty, Goodness, and Truth: What is the Future of Sacred Architecture?”
Dana Gioia, poet, October 2, 2002: “The Catholic Writer Today”
2001-02 Public Lecture Series
Thomas S. Hibbs, March 7, 2002: “Thomas Aquinas: Philosopher of the New Millennium"
Cyprian Davis, OSB, St. Meinrad’s Archabbey, February 12, 2002: “Black Catholic Self-Understanding in 19th Century America”
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., February 6, 2002: “Theology in the University”
James J. Buckley, Theology, Loyola College in Maryland, November 29, 2001: “John Henry Cardinal Newman”
Fr. Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., University of Virginia, November 8, 2001: “Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia”
Hon. John T. Noonan, Jr., October 4, 2001: “Religion, Freedom, and Catholicism”