Center for Spirituality’s Spring/Fall Endowed Lecture Series

(Dating from Fall 2005)

Fall 2005

Vatican II, 1965-2005: Relive the Revolution, Revive the Spirit!

  • Vatican II Forty Years Later: Legacy, Leadership and Unfinished Agenda

Judy Woodruff in Conversation with Council Participants

  • A People Adrift: Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America

Peter Steinfels, Fordham University

Spring 2006

Expanding Our Liturgical Horizons

  • Expanding Our Liturgical Horizons

Edward Foley, Capuchin, Catholic Theological Union

  • The Eucharist: Historical Perspectives and Current Concerns

Catherine Vincie, RSHM, Aquinas Institute, Saint Louis University

Fall 2006

Bringing Tradition to Life

  • Welcoming the Stranger: Hospitality in the Christian Tradition

Ana Maria Pineda, Santa Clara University

  • Women, Spirituality and the Workplace

Claire Wolfteich, Boston University

  • Voices from the Past, Wisdom for Today, Hope for Tomorrow

Saint Catherine of Siena (portrayed by actress Nancy Murray, OP)

Spring 2007

Spirituality and Culture

  • Spirituality for a Globalizing World

Vincent Miller, Georgetown University

  • Spirituality and Sexuality: The Marriage of Eros and Grace

James D. Whitehead and Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Loyola University and Fudan University, Shanghai

Fall 2007

Education of the Mind and Heart

  • Saint Mary’s College and Doxology: Why? How? Where? When?

John Haughey, SJ, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University

  • Recognizing the Holy: Reflections on the Beatification of Basil Anthony Moreau, CSC

Mary Louise Gude, CSC

Spring 2008

1968-2008: Events and Trajectories

  • The Legacy of Thomas Merton: A Personal Reflection

Richard Hauser, SJ, Creighton University

  • Upheavals of the 60s in the Life and Thought of Pope Benedict XVI

John L. Allen, Journalist and Author

  • 40 Years after Humanae Vitae (On Human Life): Divisions and Common Ground

Julie Hanlon Rubio, Saint Louis University

Fall 2008

The Quest Continues…

  • The Practice of Spirituality and the Practice of Medicine: Worlds Apart or Overlapping?

Harold Koenig, MD, Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center

  • The Quest for the Living God

Elizabeth Johnson, CSJ, Fordham University

  • Theories of Emerging Complexities: A Theological Approach to the Question

Rev. Antje Jackelen, Bishop of Lund, Sweden

Spring 2009

Hope During Hard Times

  • The Market Can’t Imagine, But We Can: Creativity as a Spiritual Response to the Financial Crisis

Maureen O’Connell, Fordham University

  • Did Jesus Laugh? What Humor has to do with Spirituality

Anita Houck, Saint Mary’s College

  • The Hidden Face of Hope

Barbara Quinn, RSCJ, University of San Diego

Fall 2009

Celebration of the Center’s 25th Anniversary: Women, Wisdom, and Witness

  • Reflections on Catholicism, Feminism, and History

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame

  • The Quest Project Continues…A Symposium on Spirituality and Health
  • Monika K. Hellwig: The People’s Theologian
    A Symposium Celebrating Her Life and Work

Spring 2010

Catholicism at the Crossroads

  • Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church

Paul Lakeland, Fairfield University

  • Near Occasions of Grace: The Gift and Task of Thinking Catholic

Colleen M. Mallon, OP, Aquinas Institute of Theology

  • The Eucharist and a Decade of Liturgical Reform: 1999-2010

Michael Driscoll, University of Notre Dame

Fall 2010

Real Life Calling

  • Call and Response: The Dynamics of Vocation

Lucien Roy, Loyola University, Chicago

  • Jane Addams: Spirit in Action

Louise W. Knight, Author and Historian

Believing Scholars

  • Faith and Reason in the Life and Work of Mathematician Marston Morse

Joanne R. Snow, Saint Mary’s College

Colleen M. Hoover, Saint Mary’s College

Spring 2011

Illuminating the Word

  • Scripture and Spirituality: Touching a Finger to the Flame

Carolyn Osiek, Brite Divinity School

  • A Librarian Looks at The Saint John’s Bible

Robert Hohl, Saint Mary’s College

Fall 2011

  • The Future of Religious Life

Sandra Schneiders, IHM, Jesuit School of Theology, Berkley,California

  • Feminist Interpretations of the Bible

Barbara E. Reid, OP, Catholic Theological Union

  • Are you in? Catholicism and Public Life Today

Nancy Dallavalle, Fairfield University

Spring 2012

  • Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

Margot Fassler, University of Notre Dame

  • Love Abyss: Hadewijch’s Infinite Desire

Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School

Fall 2012

Roots and Wings: The Legacy of the Second Vatican Council

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Opening of the Second Vatican Council

  • The Legacy of Vatican II: Historical Highlights and Reasons for Hope

John Allen, Jr., Senior Correspondent, National Catholic Reporter

  • Teaching Vatican II: How Change Reached the Woman in the Pew

Mary J. Henold, Roanoke College

  • Roots and Wings: How Vatican II Changed My Spiritual Life

Bishop Remi J. De Roo, retired, Diocese of Victoria

Spring 2013

Mind, Body, Spirit: Connected

  • Perspectives on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, Fordham University

  • Exploring the Body/Spirituality Interface

Suzette Brémault-Phillips, University of Alberta

  • The Evolutionary Adventure of Catholic Spirituality

Mary Jo Weaver, Indiana University

Fall 2013

Justice and Its Many Facets

  • Dying to Live: A Theology of Migration

Fr. Daniel Groody, CSC, University of Notre Dame

  • Saying Yes to More than the Dress?
    Elements of a Pro-Woman Theology of Marriage

Emily Reimer-Barry, University of San Diego

  • Consuming Women: Sex Slavery and the Body of Christ in a Market Dominated World

Mary Doak, University of San Diego

Spring 2014

Witnesses to the Love of God: The Leadership of Catholic Women Religious

  • Touched by the Love of God: Contemplative Prayer as the Heart of Our Life and Leadership

Janet K. Ruffing, RSM, Yale Divinity School

  • Madeleva: A Play in Several Voices

A New Play by Saint Mary’s Gaudete Theatre Project

  • The Contemplative Call to Do Justice

Simone Campbell, SSS, NETWORK

Fall 2014

Unitas, Veritas, Caritas: Catholicism and the Liberal Arts and Sciences

  • What Difference Does Caritas Make? A Conversation between Economics and Catholic Social Thought on the Nature of the Human Person

Mary Hirschfeld, Villanova University

  • Catholicism, Caritas, and the Vocation of the Health Care Professional

Marie T. Hilliard, The National Catholic Bioethics Center

  • Tracing Common Ground in Biology and Theology: Caritas and the Drama of Kinship

Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Notre Dame