ABOUT THE EVENT

Ecotheology as Echo-theology: Listening for the Word that Reverberates through Creation

From grains to galaxies, “through him all things were made.” Join us for an exploration and celebration of the real presence of Christ’s Paschal Mystery that sounds and resounds throughout humanity and the entire cosmos.

Program Schedule

March 17, 2024

3 pm CT
Sunday Eucharist

Presider: Very Rev. Giovanni Bizzotto, cs
Provincial, Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians
St. John the Baptist Province

Homilist: Sr. Barbara Reid, OP
President, Catholic Theological Union

Immediately Following Mass

2024 Dr. Barry Rankin Lecture on God´s Creation

Featuring

Rev. John Kartje
Rector/President and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Mundelein Seminary

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Father John Kartje was appointed rector/president of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in 2015. A native of East Chicago, Indiana, Father Kartje was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago in 2002. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1987 from the University of Chicago. He also holds two earned doctorates: a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Chicago (1995), and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America’s Department of Biblical Studies (2010).