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

Spring 2015

Saint Teresa of Avila: Carmelite Mystic and Doctor of the Church
(A series marking the 500th anniversary of Teresa’s Birth)

  • Teresa of Avila: Prayer is an Adventure in Love

Keith J. Egan, Saint Mary’s College

  • Teresa the Theologian on the Human Person as Capax Dei

Elizabeth Dreyer, Fairfield University

  • Teresa and Us: The Significance of Teresa of Avila for Young Catholic Women Today

Kaleigh Ellis ’17, Saint Mary’s College

Katie Bugyis, University of Notre Dame

Maria Surat, University of Notre Dame

Julia Feder, University of Notre Dame