American Catholics and Election 2008 For whom should you vote? How should you form your conscience from a Catholic moral perspective? An expert panel attempts to respond as politics continues to dominate the news.
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Take Heart: Catholics Writers on Hope in Our Time, the latest book in the C21 Series, celebrates those places where Catholic writers and thinkers - and you - find the gift of hope today. The book is available in the BC Bookstore
Adult enrichment for spiritual renewal and on-going formation. A variety of online learning experiences are offered in 2008.
A series of volumes published by C21 on important issues in the Church
The Fall 2008 issue of C21 Resources will address the theme of Encountering Jesus in the Scriptures
A bimonthly online publication of The Church in the 21st Century Center
A program and events Calendar for The Church in the 21st Century Center
When the Church in the 21st Century initiative was in its first year (2002), it invited two prominent Catholics to campus to talk about what it means to be Catholic. Each gave a very different perspective on how the Church needed to change. Below are the videotapes of these presentations—as true today as they were then? Or have we seen significant change or greater convergence?
"Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church," with George Weigel
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"Being Catholic," with Garry Wills Experience it now »
"Excellent Ministry in Exceptional Parishes: How?"
Join Rev. Pat Brennan in an up-close look at excellent ministry in exceptional parishes
C21 Resources
The theme of the Fall 2008 issue of C21 Resources will be “Encountering Jesus in the Scriptures.” Guest editors will be Daniel Harrington, S.J., and Christopher Matthews, editor and managing editor respectively, of New Testament Abstracts. New Testament Abstracts will move to Boston College to become part of the new BC School of Theology and Ministry. Many C21 Center sponsored and co-sponsored events in fall 2008 will focus on the 'encountering Jesus theme.' C21 Update will be published as part of C21 Resources and will be in homes in early September. If you do not currently receive Resources, please click here.