As a part of its Modern Catholicism Lecture Series, the Department of Catholic Studies hosted a lecture by Fr. Peter Mitchell. Fr. Peter Mitchell defended his doctorate in Church History at the Pontifical Gregorian University Rome, in 2009.

As a part of its Catholic Life in Literature series, the Department of Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University hosted a reading from "Vipers' Tangle" by Francois Mauriac, which was presented by Dr. James McGlone, Professor Emeritus of Communication and Catholic Studies, and the Celtic Theater Company, featuring the Yates family.

When the deeply Confucian and culturally Orthodox literati of Beijing and Shanghai first encountered Catholic missionaries in the late Ming dynasty (1368-1644), China and the West inaugurated several centuries of uneasy dialogue and intercultural adjustments. Dr. Anthony E. Clark, Edward B. Lindaman Chair in Chinese History at Whitworth University, presents a talk on the turbulent Catholic history in Beijing and Shanghai as those two cities entered modernity and were later transformed into...

After nine centuries of schism, new ecumenical impulses especially since the Second Vatican Council are leading Eastern Orthodox and Catholics to a new relationship. In a Common Declaration in 1965, Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, together aimed to remove from the midst of the Church the mutual sentences of excommunication of 1054, calling for dialogue to resolve issues separating them, and to lead towards full communion. This program will illustrate how...

The Gospels show the special attention Jesus pays to his own and other people's Hunger and reveal how being hungry is the good news branded on the human flesh and deserves to be highly considered. But God's pecularity also emerges from the matter of food that He - putting Himself above the Law and the Prophets - declares to be uncontaminated. The Gospels gently introduce the Son of God through a scarcely regarded detail: the action of cooking. What does this simple action, which distinguishes...

Internet replicates older forms of the transmission of the knowledge of our life, it gives shape to desires and values that are as old as the human being. When we look at the internet, it is not just to see the perspectives on the future that it offers, but also the desires that human beings have always had, and to which they attempt to respond, which means relationships, communication and knowledge. How to deal with the question of spirituality when the Web has become a part of the fabric of...

In 1982 Dr. Colasanti, in Rome (Italy) founded a medical center with the specific purpose of helping illegal immigrants and Roma people, all of whom were afraid to seek medical treatment in Rome. The mission of the Center was to work on medicine of migration and poverty, tropical diseases, and trans-cultural psychiatry for the migrants. It was something unique in the landscape of Italian medicine: the birth of a real laboratory for social medicine that would change medical practices. This...

The Global Christian Forum is a recent development responding to a new situation among Christians. For more than a century, mainline churches, Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, have been involved in the modern ecumenical movement, and after centuries of division, have achieved new levels of unity and reconciliation. Together these mainline churches represent about 1.8 billion Christians. But a new development especially in the 21st century is that some of the fastest growing Christian...

From the Council of Chalcedon up to Justinian’s reconquest of Italy (451-536), numerous imperial interventions in church affairs reflect the complexity of the conflict which opposed the major ecclesiastical sees, Rome, Constantinople and Alexandria. In addition to changes in doctrine, this period of history saw major changes in the organization and power structure of the Church. Each see tried to define principles of government based on its particular understanding of the tradition and of the...

Edwin O'Connor's Pulitzer prize winning novel The Edge of Sadness is a penetrating look into the soul of a vibrant and humbly profound spiritual existence that has been neglected in modern fiction. It records the rituals, governance, and congregational personality of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States that scarcely ten years later will have almost completely disappeared.

In the light of the Gospel and the Catholic spiritual tradition, the talk will explore the new relationship established by Christ between the sacred and the profane. Is it really possible that what was once considered profane - our broken world - is now the place of the sacred, and what was once hopelessly lost, and beyond the pale, is now the center?

Since Vatican II, the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance have engaged in two phases of international Baptist–Catholic dialogue. The first phase, 1984-1988, published a report entitled "Summons to Witness to Christ in Today’s World." The second phase, 2006-2010, on which the program focuses, published its report entitled "The Word of God in the Life of the Church." That report addressed controversial issues between Baptists and Catholics since the sixteenth century Reformation....

In his lecture, Fr. Kelly will provide an overview of the way Catholics have engaged in sport from the medieval period to the present and then develop a contemporary “spirituality of sport” by making use of the flow theory of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. The flow theory is helpful for developing such a spirituality because of the close attention Csikszentmihalyi and his researchers have paid to the experiences of young people participating in games and sports over the years. That...

From the speaker: The lecture is based on my forthcoming book (Fall 2014, Northern Illinois U Press), in which I explore the history of the medieval belief that St. Jerome invented the Glagolitic letters of the Slavs and translated the Bible and the Roman liturgy into Slavonic. I investigate the emergence of this legend in Dalmatia and the circumstances of its spread to Bohemia and Poland. Now largely forgotten, the legend of the Slavic descent of St. Jerome was used by political and...

Communication is the foundation of human interaction, connection, and community. It's the essence of interpersonal relationships, organizational and workplace life. Communication occurs in multiple contexts and forms and across institutions and networks, which usually results in challenges for the interacting parties. The more individuals involved in the communication act, the more complex the interaction and the greater the likelihood of miscommunication. The channel selected to convey a...

Chesterton’s social philosophy is called Distributism. By this name, he meant that a free people must belong to a property-owning democracy. Distributists wanted property distributed as widely as possible in order to guarantee political liberty. In a truly free nation, they believed citizens must be as independent as possible of both governments and of large corporations. For that reason, Distributism is opposed both to State Socialism and to Monopoly Capitalism. In a sense, Distributism...