Events
Current Events
Fall 2025
Monday, October 20
Catholic Studies Summer Research Grants Presentation
Sean Triplett will present a fascinating video he created on What does the Catholic Church Believe about Angels?
Location: College Center 107
Time: 3:00 pm
Wednesday, October 22
Lunch and Learn
Mark Hoipkemier of the University of Notre Dame, IN, for a lunch talk on Catholic
Social Teaching (CST) and markets, specifically how to think about the just business
practice of ride-share companies. Lunch is served with the meeting beginning a little
after noon and will run to around 1 pm.
Location: College Center*105— right behind Starbucks in the Student Center.
Time: 12 noon
Friday, October 24
Catholic Studies Summer Research Grants Presentation
Kate Izzo will share her very interesting work on The Catholic Church and Italian Female Self-Portraiture
Location: Beatty Hall 108
Time: evening (TBD)
All are welcome to any and all of the events! Also, if you know anyone who may be interested participating in Catholic Studies events or being added to the listserv, have them reach out to this email or me, John Dougherty, directly at jpdougherty1@loyola.edu.
Past Events
2024-2025
Leo Guardado, Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University ¡Presente! Archbishop Romero's Challenge to the Politics of Faith in the U.S
Sawyer Allen, A student Catholic Studies grant, Loyola University Maryland. Catholic Bioethics and End of Life Care.
Cecelia Lynch, Professor of Political Science, University of California Irvine, author of Wrestling with God: Ethical Precarity in Christianity and International Relations
J. Matthew Ashley, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, author of Renewing Theology: Ignatian Spirituality and Karl Rahner, Ignacio Ellacuria, and Pope Frances
Alexandra Dodson, Assistant Professor of Art History at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
Mélisande Short-Colomb, direct descendant of families sold by the Society of Jesus in 1838 and has been an anchoring member of the President’s Task Force Examining Loyola’s Connections to Slavery
Elizabeth Gandolfo, Earley Chair of Catholic Studies and Latin American Studies, Wake Forest University,
author of Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home
Dr. Lisa Sideris, University of California Santa Barbara, presentation entitled Thinking about Earth in a Time of Technocracy: Pope Francis and Teilhard de Chardin
Grace Adams, Catholic Ethical Purchasing Alliance, Campus Ministry Lunch and Learn, focusing
on Ethical Purchasing at Loyola