January 22

Sunday

CATHOLIC STUDIES STUDENT MASS

8:00 PM   Hopkins Court Lounge

Celebrant :  Fr. Joseph S. Rossi, S.J.

175 Attended

January 24

Tuesday

CATHOLIC STUDIES FILM SERIES

“Hotel Rwanda”

8:30 PM    McManus Theater

Moderator:  Fr. Joseph S. Rossi, S.J.

85 Attended

January 25

Wednesday

LECTURE

“Doing Well by Doing Good:  The Citizen”

Rev. James Connor, S.J.

MD Provincial Assistant for Mission & Renewal and Former Ex. Dir. of Georgetown Univ. Woodstock Theological Center

John L. Carr

Dir. of Social Dev. & World Peace, US Catholic Bishop’ Conf.

Sponsored by Faith & Business and Catholic Studies

7:00-8:30 PM

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

70 Attended

January 28

Saturday

CATHOLIS STUDIES MASS & DINNER

Home of Sue and Mike Abromaitis

Celebrant  Rev. Martin O’Malley, S.J.

4:00 PM

38 Attended

February 2

Thursday

LECTURE

“Drunkenness, Nakedness and the Redemption and Fall of an Image”

Peter Widdicombe

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

McMaster University, Canada

4:30 PM   Knott Hall B03

40 Attended

February 4

Saturday

CATHOLIC STUDIES CULTURAL TRIP

The Walter’s Art Gallery

Exhibit on Medieval Novgorod

10:00 AM – 1:30 PM

23 Attended

February 7

Tuesday

LECTURE

“Iraq:  Is this the End for Christianity?”

John Pontifex

Aid to the Church in Need, UK

4:30 PM

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

35 Attended

February 15

Wednesday

LECTURE

“Cultivating Talents and Social Responsibility – Aims and Means of Early Jesuit Education”

Paul Richard Blum

4:30 PM    Knott Hall B01

80 Attended

February 20

Monday

CATHOLIC STUDIES LECTURE

“Thomas Aquinas, the Acquired and Infused Virtues”

Fr. Romanus Cessario, Professor of Systematic Theology

St. John’s Seminary School of Theology in Massachusetts

4:30 PM   Knott Hall B03

70 Attended

February 20

Monday

LECTURE

 “Mysticism and Protest in Marguerite Porete’s Life, Death, and Christian Allegory – The Mirror of Simple Souls”

Suzanne Kocher

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures & Catholic Studies

4:00 PM   McGuire Hall

60 Attended

February 21

Tuesday

LECTURE

“Doing Well by Doing Good:  Business”

7:00-8:30 PM

Dr. Charles Clark, Ph.D.

Prof. of Economics & Assoc. Dean for Faculty Affairs with the Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

Sponsored by Faith & Business and Catholic Studies

85 Attended

February 23 –

    March 16

ITALIAN WEEK

March 1

Wednesday

LECTURE

“A Psychotheology of Trauma:  Reflections on Gender Related Violence in Africa”

Dr. Simone Lindorfer

University of Tübingen, Germany

7:00 PM    McGuire West \

60 Attended

March 2

Thursday

PROGRAM

“Mothering and the Best of All Possible Worlds”

Enola Aird

6:00 PM      McGuire Hall, West   

Sponsored by Theology, Office of Academic Affairs, Womans’ History Month, Catholic Studies

125 Attended

March 15

Wednesday

CATHOLIC STUDIES LECTURE

“Dying for Victory”

Robin Darling Young

4:30 PM 

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

Sponsored by the Humanities Symposium, the Theology Dept. & Catholic Studies

March 22

Wednesday

CATHOLIC STUDIES FILM SERIES

“Schindler’s List”

7:00 PM   Knott Hall B01

Moderator:  Fr. Joseph S. Rossi, S.J.

March 27

Monday

LECTURE

“Doing Well by Doing Good:  The Policy”

Lee Preston, Ph.D.

Professor  Emeritus of Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland

Sponsored by Faith & Business and Catholic Studies

7:00-8:30 PM

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

March 27

Monday

LENTEN EVENING REFLECTION

What Are You Passionate About?  Finding Bliss in One’s Calling”

Rev. Steve Spahn, S.J.

Time:  TBA   Location:  TBA

Sponsored by Campus Ministry & Catholic Studies

March 28

Tuesday

CATHOLIC STUDIES LECTURE

“Aquinas – Aristotle on the Weakness of the Will”

Andrea Robiglio   (Richard Blum organizing)

6:00 PM

4^th Floor Programming Room, Andrew White Student Center

March 30

Thursday

THE CARDIN LECTURE

“Addressing Different Audiences:  Hannah Arendt’s Writing Between Germany and the United States”

Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University

7:00 PM   McGuire Hall

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Modern Languages & Literatures, the Liberal Studies Program and Catholic Studies

April 6

Thursday

CATHOLIC STUDIES LECTURE

Thomas S. Hibbs

Dean of the Honors College & Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture, Baylor University

Title   TBA

6:00 PM

Knott Hall B03

April 20

Thursday

LECTURE

“Flannery O’Connor, Aquinas, and Prophecy”

Jane Kelley Rodeheffer (ask Angela)

Time:  TBA (somewhere between 4 & 8 PM    McGuire West

April/May

TBA

CATHOLIC STUDIES MASS & DINNER

TBA