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Upcoming Events
September 11, 2006 Archbishop J. Michael Miller, Secretary of Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study) of the Holy See, will give an address at Boston College on the theme of Catholic higher education in the United States. The public lecture will be from 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Gasson 100. Please check the C21 website for details later in the summer, more info.
October 3, 2006 Discussion: "Free the DaVinci Code - Fact and Fiction, Flap and Faith," with Jim McDermott, S.J., associate editor of America, 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Gasson 100, more info.
October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 2006 Seminar Series: "Presiding for Lay People," with Rev. James Mongelluzo, Assistant Director for Liturgical and Spiritual Formation, Boston College IREPM, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus, more info.
October 10, 2006 Lecture: "From John Paul II to Benedict XVI: The Social Ministry of the Church," with Rev. J. Brian Hehir, President of Catholic Charities, Archdiocese of Boston, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Gasson 100, more info.
November 1, 2006 Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, AZ. More information will be available at the C21 website in late August, more info.
November 2, 2006 Lecture: "Toward a Democratic Catholic Church," with James Carroll, columnist for the Boston Globe, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Gasson 100, more info.
November 17, 2006 Annual Ministry Renewal Day: "A Common Calling: Laity and the Church Governance," with Lynn Jarell, OSU, JCD, Associate Director for Canon Law, Legal Resource Center for Religious and Rev. Michael Himes, Professor of Theology, Boston College, 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Gasson 100, more info. |
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In Our Time: Interreligious Relations in a Divided World
In a celebration of interreligious collaboration, Brandeis University and Boston College, through its Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, co-sponsored a two-day conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate and to explore the nature of interreligious dialogue. The keynote speaker, Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, just completed almost twenty years of service as secretary and then president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. As a highly regarded specialist in Islam, his expertise lent a global perspective to the discussion of Islam and other world religions.
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Church, Culture and Education in Ireland and the USA
On Thursday, April 20, 2006 Garret FitzGerald, former Irish Prime Minister, gave a lecture cosponsored by the Lonergan Workshop and the Church in the 21st Century Center. The streaming video of the lecture can be viewed on our webcast archive page or the text may be read on the C21 website. |
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State of Mind: The Intellectual Life of American Catholics
 A forum marking the 50th anniversary of historian Msgr. John Tracy Ellis?s influential book, American Catholics and the Intellectual Life, took place on Sunday, April 30. Forum participants included Prof. Michael Buckley, S.J., Boston College, Theology Department; Prof. M. Cathleen Kaveny, Notre Dame Law School, the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law; and Prof. Eugene McCarraher, Villanova University, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions. The entire panel presentation will be available for viewing from the C21 website by mid-August.
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Video: Secular/Sacred exhibit
Earle Havens, cocurator of the McMullen Museum of Art's exhibit Secular/Sacred, speaks about objects from the exhibit that were employed by Church and state during the Middle Ages and Renaissance as instruments of propaganda and coercive power.
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Video: One Year of Benedict XVI
A panel discussion on the first year of Pope Benedict's papacy includes Boston College theology professors Thomas Groome, Kenneth Himes, OFM, Mary Ann Hinsdale, IHM, and James Weiss, with moderator Alan Wolfe, Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life.
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University to offer degrees in church management
Boston College will launch the nation's first graduate program to train priests, nuns, and laypeople who manage Catholic parishes and organizations. Boston Globe, reprinted with permission of the Boston Globe |
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Boston College to help run parochial school
Boston College will partner with the Archdiocese of Boston to help run St. Columbkille School beginning this September. A collaboration with Boston College will enable the St. Columbkille School to continue offering Catholic, parish-based education to Allston-Brighton children. Boston Globe, reprinted with permission of the Boston Globe |
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Boston College Magazine, Spring 2006 Articles of interest to C21 Readers
Faith, hope, and politics: Practicing Religion in the Public Realm by Michael Molyneux; Can We Talk?: A Contrarian Theologian Takes on Interfaith Dialogue by William Bole; Substitute Preacher: A Lesson Plan For When No Priest is Available by William Bole |
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