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SUMMARY:Theologians of the Vatican II Era – CTU Fall Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Theologians of the Vatican II Era will give appreciative and critical attention to seven theologians who got in trouble for their writings before they became the figures who shaped the theological climate of the 21st century. \n  \nThomas F. O’Meara\, O.P.\, is emeritus professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He studied with Yves Congar\, O.P.\, Karl Rahner\, S.J.\, and Hans Küng—theologians who made critical and defining contributions to the Second Vatican Council. The lecture series will begin with three lectures given by Prof. O’Meara\, reflecting on his own recollections and on the legacies of those three mentors. \n  \n \nMary Kate Holman\, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University and the author of Marie-Dominique Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World. \n  \n  \nKathleen McManus\, OP\, Ph.D.\, Kathleen writes\, teaches\, and lectures in the areas of Christology\, Theological Anthropology\, and Feminist and Creation Theologies with special attention to suffering. She serves on the Editorial Team for the International T&T Clark series Studies in Edward Schillebeeckx. \n  \n  \nRobin Ryan\, C.P.\, is professor of systematic theology at Catholic Theological Union. Prof. Ryan studied under Elizabeth Johnson\, C.S.J.\, and will reflect on her contributions to our understanding of God and God’s relationship to the Church and the human family\, challenging and urging the Church to overcome “every type of discrimination\, whether social or cultural\, whether based on sex\, race\, color\, social condition\, language or religion.” \n  \nAntonio Sison\, C.P.P.S.\, is professor of systematic theology and culture\, as well as holder of the Vatican II Chair in Theology at Catholic Theological Union. Prof. Sison will address the work of Engelbert Mveng\, S.J.\, whose contextually rooted African theology reflected on the influence of European cultural dominance on the religious experiences of colonized peoples. Mveng’s theology of life was his imaginative response to the long legacy of colonization and the deprivation of culture in the lives of African believers. \n  \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/theologians-of-the-vatican-ii-era-ctu-fall-lecture-series/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:Homecoming 2026
DESCRIPTION:Homecoming Weekend: Celebrating the CTU Community\n  \nWe’re excited to welcome CTU alumni\, families\, and friends to our second annual Homecoming Weekend\, taking place Friday\, October 10–Saturday\, October 11. \nThe weekend kicks off Friday with our Alumni Day of Giving\, an opportunity to come together and celebrate the strength\, spirit\, and generosity of the CTU community. \nThen\, on Saturday evening\, we’ll head to Soldier Field to cheer on the Chicago Fire! Join fellow CTU community members for an exciting night at the stadium\, reconnect with old friends\, make new memories\, and show your CTU spirit. \nAs a special bonus\, everyone who purchases tickets through this offer will receive an exclusive Chicago Fire Faith and Family scarf. \nWe hope you’ll join us for a memorable Homecoming Weekend!
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/homecoming-2026-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T160000
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SUMMARY:Religious Life and Racial Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL) at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago (CTU) is offering a Fall 2026 event to explore the opportunities\, challenges\, and implications of naming and engaging Racial Justice among women’s and men’s religious congregations. \nThe event begins on October 28\, 2026 at 4:00-7:30 p.m.\, of listening and responding to two excellent plenary speakers. Refreshments will be served. The second day on October 29\, 2026 begins at 8:30am until 12:00pm consist of four workshops on religious life and the experiences of racial justice. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. \nThe events will address intercultural and racial contexts of religious life today. \nAttendance of the event is gratis and available in person and on Zoom. Free parking is available. \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2026 | 4-6:30 pm \nFeatured Plenary Speakers \nBrother Moises Gutierrez\, PhD\, is a Franciscan friar\, Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He is currently a core faculty professor in the doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Leadership at Creighton University. Brother Moises is originally from Guanajuato\, Mexico\, but he has spent the last 30 years living\, ministering\, and working in various countries. He holds a master’s degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University (Cambridge\, Massachusetts)\, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies with a concentration on global leadership from Gonzaga University. For his dissertation\, he developed a model of a transdisciplinary global mindset for global and local leadership. Brother Moises has made intercultural living and ministry an important component of his mission. He is passionate about diversity. He has been offering workshops\, talks\, courses\, and conferences on intercultural leadership\, ministry\, development\, etc. for the last 25 years. He also served as vocation director for his Franciscan province for seven years. \n  \n  \n  \nAnita Baird\, DHM\, is a member of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary and currently serves as United States Provincial. A longtime leader in the Catholic Church\, she became the first African American to serve as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Chicago in 1997 and later founded the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice\, directing efforts to address racism within the Church and serving as Cardinal Francis George’s liaison for race relations. Sister Anita is a past president of the National Black Sisters’ Conference and has held leadership roles with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Her many honors include the Harriet Tubman “Moses of Her People” Award\, LCWR’s Outstanding Leadership Award\, and honorary degrees from Catholic Theological Union and St. Xavier University. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from DePaul University and an M.A. in Theology from Loyola University Chicago. \n  \nThursday\, October 29\, 2026 | Continental Breakfast 8:00 am | Program\, 8:30 am -12:30 pm \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Formation with: \nCorrina Thomas\, FSPA\nCorrina Thomas\, is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. She lives in Chicago. Until lately she was ministering as the novice director for her congregation and the co-director of the InterCongregational Collaborative Novitiate in Chicago.\nCorrina was born and raised in India and has been living in the United States for 28 years. Besides formation\, her other ministries include media literacy\, spiritual direction\, program/retreat director in two spirituality centers\, and she has also worked with victims/survivors of human trafficking.\nCorrina believes passionately in the formation of religious life for the future and the necessity of creating intentional spaces for grace\, relationships\, collaboration and engagement for newer members. \nSusan Francois\, CSJP\nSusan Rose Francois is a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace. She has served in Congregation Leadership since 2015 and accompanies women in initial formation as Candidate Director. She received her MA in Theology from CTU in 2015 and is a Bernardin Scholar. Sister Susan is co-editor of Reseeding Religious Life through Global Sisterhood (Liturgical Press\, 2024) \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Leadership with: \nMila Díaz Solano\, OP\nSr. Mila Díaz Solano\, OP is a Dominican sister of Springfield\, born in Peru. She holds a master’s degree in theology from Catholic Theological Union and studied for her Doctoral Degree at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem.\nCurrently\, Mila is an adjunct faculty of Catholic Theological Union for Biblical Courses in Spanish and Associate Director of the Oscar Romero Scholars Program. Mila has served in the leadership of her congregation from 2019-2024. She is the President on the board of Asociación de Hermanas Latinas en América (AHLMA) and a member of the National Board of LCWR. \nCarol Zinn\, SSJ\nCarol Zinn\, SSJ\, is a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia and currently serves as Executive Director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). She has ministered in education\, religious education\, and congregational leadership and previously served in the Presidency of LCWR. She also represented the Congregations of St. Joseph at the United Nations\, representing more than 15\,000 Sisters of St. Joseph in 57 countries. Carol holds an MA in Theology from St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate in Curriculum Development and Education Foundations from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has also conducted research on leadership and transformation at Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard University. \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Community Living with: \nRoger Schroeder\, SVD\nRoger Schroeder\, is a member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). He worked for six years in Papua New Guinea. He later earned a doctorate degree in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1990. Since then\, he has taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is a member of the ImagoDEI anti-racism committee at CTU. His publications include Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today (2020)\, with Sr. Maria Cimperman. \nFerdinand Beki Doren\, SVD\nFerdinand Beki Doren is an Indonesian-born Catholic priest\, SVD missionary\, and theologian specializing in mission theology\, interculturality\, and social transformation. He holds a Doctor of Ministry (DMin) from Catholic Theological Union (CTU) and pursued advanced studies at the University of São Paulo (USP)\, researching Brazilian popular religiosity and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). His pastoral ministry among marginalized urban communities in São Paulo is deeply grounded on Latin American liberation theology. He has taught and contributed to formation in mission theology\, liberation theology\, biblical studies\, and intercultural theology. \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Ministry Settings with: \nFerdinand Okorie\, CMF\nFerdinand Okorie CMF\, is a member of Claretian Missionaries. He was a Campus Minister at Missouri State University\, and the Director of the National Shrine of St. Jude. He earned a doctorate degree from Loyola University\, Chicago in the New Testament and Early Christianity in 2018. Since then\, he has taught at Catholic Theological Union\, where he currently serves as the Vice President and Academic Dean. He serves as the Editor-in-chief of the award-winning US Catholic Magazine. Among his publications include An African Introduction to the New Testament (2026) with Abeneazer G. Urga and Elizabeth W. Mburu. \nMalachy Osunwa\, CMF\nMalachy Izunwunne Osunwa\, CMF is a Claretian Missionary priest from Nigeria\, ordained in 1994. He was associate novice master for six years and later studied the theology of religious life at the ITVR\, Madrid Spain. From 2002 to 2014\, he was the novice master in Nigeria\, Uganda and Kenya. He had three semesters of studies in Spirituality at the OST\, San Antonio between 2016 – 2017 and later was appointed as associate pastor from 2018 in San Antonio and later in Atlanta. He holds B.Phil\, B.Div\, M.Th & LSS (Religious Life.) \nFor information\, contact: Janet Hoffman\, deansoffice@ctu.edu
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/religious-life-and-racial-justice/
CATEGORIES:Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL)
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SUMMARY:Fall Shapiro Lecture - Ariela Housman
DESCRIPTION:For the Sanctity of the Torah Scroll: Imbuing Holiness through Intentional Action \nA Torah Scroll is the most sacred ritual object in Judaism. The halaḥah\, Jewish law\, regarding the creation of a Torah scroll and the reverence accorded to it thereafter\, is extensive. Starting with the selection of raw materials\, continuing through the processing of hides\, the brewing of ink\, and the actual writing of the scroll\, the entire process of making a Torah is one of consciously and deliberately vesting the object with holiness. Join Torah Scribe Ariela Housman to learn about the Jewish law\, the religious ethos\, and the art of making a Torah scroll. \n  \nAriela Housman (she/her/hers) has been a calligraphy enthusiast since 1995 and and a professional since 2003. In 2015 she began studying hilḥot safrut (Jewish scribal laws) with Jen Taylor Friedman\, the first woman documented to have scribed a Torah scroll. In 2021 Ariela accepted a commission from Temple Beth Shalom in Needham\, MA\, a Reform congregation\, to write a Torah for them. She completed the scroll in 2024\, the eighth woman documented to have done so. Since then she has been repairing scrolls written by other scribes. \nAriela writes in the Spanish Portuguese scribal hand\, one of only three scribes in the world currently doing so\, and the only one to have written a Torah in it\, at least so far. She looks forward to the swelling of those ranks. \nIn her other professional hat\, Ariela does art and calligraphy relating to works of speculative fiction and fandom. Her art has garnered three nominations for the Hugo Award.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/fall-shapiro-lecture-ariela-housman/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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SUMMARY:The Ongoing Normalization of Anti-Islam and Anti-Muslim Bigotry in Public Discourse
DESCRIPTION:Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States have a long genealogy. Their resurgence in public discourse\, particularly amid domestic and international political developments\, reveals the continuing social and political permissibility of forms of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim rhetoric that might otherwise be recognized as unacceptable bigotry. This permissibility reflects deeper systemic questions about the place of Islam and Muslims in American society. The panelists will explore these historical and contemporary dynamics while offering constructive approaches for challenging the ongoing normalization of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim bigotry. \n  \n \nJordan Denari Duffner\, PhD\nScholar in Residence at Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign and Khatib Scholar for Religion and Dialogue at the University of Mary\, Washington. Author of Palestine\, Israel\, and Catholic Social Teaching (Forthcoming\, 2026) and Islamophobia: What Christians Should Know (and Do) about Anti-Muslim Discrimination (Orbis\, 2021). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nMohammad Hassan Khalil\, PhD\nProfessor of Religious Studies\, Adjunct Professor of Law\, and the Director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. Editor of Muslims and US Politics Today: A Defining Moment (ILEX and Harvard University Press\, 2019) and author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question (Oxford University Press\, 2012). \n  \n  \n  \nThis event will be available In-person only.  \nCo-Sponsored by:
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/the-ongoing-normalization-of-anti-muslim-bigotry-in-public-discourse/
CATEGORIES:The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the 32nd anniversary of the Romero Scholars Program
DESCRIPTION:November 21\, 2026\nCTU will celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the Romero Scholars Program on Saturday evening\, November 21\, 2026. Please join us for a festive celebration which will include a fabulous Latin dinner and music. \nBy sponsoring a table at this year’s Corazon de Romero event\, you’re not only supporting our Romero Scholars\, but also enjoying the benefits of community and engagement at this year’s event. Sponsorship levels and benefits are as follows: \n\nSan Oscar Arnulfo Romero: Table for 8 + 6 Raffle tickets\nNuestra Señora de Guadalupe: 6 Dinner Tickets + 6 Raffle tickets\nSan Martin de Porres: 4 Dinner Tickets + 6 Raffle tickets\nSanta Rosa de Lima: 2 Dinner Tickets + 6 Raffle tickets\nSanto Toribio Romo Gonzalez: 2 Dinner Tickets\n\n  \n \n\n5:30 pm          Reception\n6:30 pm          Dinner & Program\n8:00 pm          Dancing\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nhttps://pro.gofundme.com/event/corazon-de-romero/e836152 \n  \nFor over thirty-two years\, CTU’s Oscar Romero Scholars has been preparing Hispanic/Latin@ men and women for professional ministry and as leaders among the Hispanic community in the Archdiocese of Chicago. The program offers them a full tuition scholarship for a graduate degree in theology and a formation program that seeks to have them inspired by the life and ministry of St. Oscar Romero. For more than half of that time\, the scholars have hosted an annual event inviting family\, friends\, and other supporters to help raise funds for these scholarships. \nThis year\, the Romero program has doubled the number of scholars in the program by offering for the first time in our history one of our degrees in Spanish. \nLocation\nCatholic Theological Union\n5416 South Cornell Avenue\nChicago\, Illinois 60615 \n  \nPlease call 773.371.5415 for more information.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/celebrating-the-32nd-anniversary-of-the-romero-scholars-program/
CATEGORIES:Romero Program
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SUMMARY:Pilgrimage to Sicily  & Rome
DESCRIPTION:TRAVEL PACKAGE INCLUSIONS\n• One-way economy class transportation via ITA Airways: Catania to Rome.\n• Deluxe motor-coach transportation upon arrival and available for the entire tour.\n• Ten (10) nights’ accommodations at first-class hotels throughout.\n• Breakfast daily\, plus a wine tasting with lunch at Mount Etna and six (6) dinners\, including\na farewell dinner at a restaurant in Rome.\n• Full-time tour manager throughout the tour\, including arrival and departure transfers.\n• Sightseeing with professional English-speaking guides as outlined in the itinerary.\n• Coordination of liturgies as per request.\n• Entrance fees to all sights as noted in the itinerary.\n• Porter service at hotels (one piece of luggage\, per person).\nRefer to Terms & Conditions for items or additional costs not included in the package price \nRegister Here \nDownload Tour Brochure
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/pilgrimage-to-sicily-rome/
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