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SUMMARY:Origins of Franciscan Spirituality (Italy Tourgrimage)
DESCRIPTION:This study Tourgrimage begins at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday\, February 13\, 2025 and ends after supper on Friday\, February 21\, 2025. You must travel on or before February 12\, 2025\, to arrive on time and depart on or after February 22\, 2025. \nA study Tourgrimage is part tour\, part pilgrimage and part of a course. In that spirit\, we will visit several of the shrines dedicated to the memory of the original members of the three orders of the Franciscan family. The tourgrimage will take place in Franciscan Rome\, Inspirational Assisi and Evangelical Rieti. \nThis itinerary is designed to help us experience the spirituality and art of the Franciscan tradition. For this reason\, we have prepared an itinerary to help us get the most out of our time in Italy. \nThe cost of the program for auditors is $3\,350 plus airfare. \nThe cost of the program for CTU students is $2700 plus 1.5 credit tuition and plus airfare. \nThe program cost includes shared accommodations\, a half pension (breakfast plus 1 meal) in Rome\, a full pension (breakfast plus 2 meals) in Assisi\, ground transportation\, and museum tickets. \nTHE CTU IN ITALY VIDEO \n  \nABOUT THE PROFESSOR \nBr. Gilberto Cavazos-González\, OFM is a Tejano\, a Friar Minor (Franciscan) and Professor of the Theological Study of Christian Spirituality. He taught for 15 years at the Catholic Theological Union before moving to Rome to work at the Pontifical University Antonianum (PUA). In March of 2020 he became the pontifically appointed Secretary of the Pontificia Academia Mariana Internationalis (PAMI). In June of 2022 Pope Francisco freed him from his position with PAMI so that he could return to CTU as Professor of Spirituality and the John Duns Scotus Chair of Franciscan Spirituality. \nGilberto lived in Rome for almost 15 years\, first as a doctoral student in the 1990s and\, more recently\, working for the PUA\, the PAMI and the OFM general curia. Besides being a Franciscan\, he is a Franciscanologist who specializes in the spirituality of Clare and Francis of Assisi as expressed in their own writings. \nGilberto has published several books\, beginning with Greater than a Mother’s Love: The Spirituality of Francis and Clare of Assisi. He recently co-edited a book called Evolving Methods for the Study of Spirituality (Peeter’s 2023). He is completing a book on the Marian Spirituality of Sor Juana de la Cruz Vasquez Gutierrez\, a Spanish Franciscan sister who was a mystic\, a pastor and a preacher to royalty\, prelates\, nuns and her parishioners in the early 1500s. Friar Gilberto organizes and preaches retreats and workshops for the Franciscan family. As a result\, he is writing a spiritual formation book focusing on the five pillars of Franciscan/Clarian Spirituality. \nHe is currently working on a book on the Marian Spirituality of Sor Juana de la Cruz Vasquez Gutierrez\, a Spanish Franciscan sister who was a mystic\, a pastor and a preacher to royalty\, prelates\, nuns and her parishioners in the early 1500s.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/origins-of-franciscan-spirituality-italy-tourgrimage/
CATEGORIES:Travel
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SUMMARY:Reseeding Religious Life through the Global Sisterhood
DESCRIPTION:As the Center celebrates its 10th year we invite you to a book launch. \n\nThe Center for the Study of Consecrated Life which celebrates its 10th year was founded to support research and publications regarding contemporary issues in religious life today. CSCL sponsors programs and events that bring together men and women religious from around the world to dialogue about the realities and changes of religious vocation.\n\n10 Years\n\n\n\nThe story of religious life over the centuries displays two enduring qualities: constancy and change. God’s love is constant\, as is the changing state of the human condition lived on earth\, our common home. Each generation of religious is faced with reading the signs of the times to faithfully navigate the intersection of constancy and change. In this event\, a few of the sister authors share perspectives on their rich heritage while continuing to till the soil of religious life with their encounters\, transforming and deepening their charismatic identity with each conversation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPEAKERS
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/book-launch-reseeding-religious-life-through-global-sisterhood/
CATEGORIES:Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL),CTU
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SUMMARY:Winter Shapiro | Shai Held - "Do Jews and Christians Love the Same Way?"
DESCRIPTION:Winter Shapiro Lecture Synopsis:  \nDo Jews and Christians Love the Same Way? \nFor centuries\, Christian anti-Judaic prejudice insisted that whereas Christianity is about love\, Judaism is about … something else\, like law\, or justice\, or obedience.  Rabbi Shai Held’s new book argues that Judaism\, no less than Christianity\, is a religion of love.  And yet Judaism is not just Christianity avant la lettre\, and so there are some key differences in the ways Jews and Christians tend to think and talk about love.  In this lecture\, we’ll consider some of those crucial differences: divergent understandings of human nature\, of the relationship between love and law\, of the relative priority of the particular and the universal\, and of the ideal of loving our enemies.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/winter-shapiro-shai-held-do-jews-and-christians-love-the-same-way/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center,Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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SUMMARY:Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the book \nEvolving Methodologies in the Study of Spirituality (Leuven: Peeters\, 2023)\, edited by Rossano Zas Friz De Col\, SJ and Gilberto Cavazos-González\, OFM. This book\, a collection of talks in either Italian or English at an international gathering of scholars and students of Theology\, is a significant contribution to Spiritual Theology and Spirituality Studies\, offering fresh perspectives and innovative methodologies. \nDate: Monday February 3\, 2025\nTime: 12-13:30 (in Chicago) 19-20:30 (in Rome)\nFor time in your area please check the Time Zone Converter. \nIt has been over 5 years since professors of Spirituality and Spiritual Theology gathered for the Evolving Methodologies Conference\, organized by the international committee of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality (SSCS) and the Forum dei Professori di Teologia Spirituale in Italia (FPTSI). The Conference (25-28 September 2019) was sponsored by the OFM Pontificia Università Antonianum and had 38 speakers from all five continents: Africa\, America\, Asia\, Europe and Oceania.\nThe speakers\, representing 16 different nations and multiple cultures and Christian denominations\, brought a rich diversity of perspectives and ideas. These professors were chosen from over 70 proposals because they are at the “cusp of the development of the scholarly enterprise and the definition and understanding of” (5) the sister disciplines of Spirituality and Spiritual Theology.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/book-launch/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center
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SUMMARY:Interreligious Iftar (Breaking of the Fast Dinner)
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URL:https://ctu.edu/event/interreligious-iftar-breaking-of-the-fast-dinner/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:Lecture with Dawn M. Nothwehr\, OSF\, Ph.D.
DESCRIPTION:Following Mass\, join us for the 2025 Dr. Barry Rankin Lecture on God´s Creation by Dawn M. Nothwehr\, OSF\, Ph.D.\, The Erica and Harry John Family Professor Emerita of Catholic Theological Ethics at CTU. \nMass 3pm – 4pm\nLecture 4pm – 5pm\nReception 5pm – 6pm \nPresider:\nVery Rev. Anthony Pizzo\, O.S.A.\, Prior Provincial for the Midwest Augustinians \n  \n  \nDawn M. Nothwehr\, OSF\, Ph.D \nVery Rev. Anthony Pizzo\, O.S.A
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/sundays-at-ctu-lecture-with-dawn-m-nothwehr-osf-ph-d/
CATEGORIES:Sundays at CTU
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SUMMARY:Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Register to join this year’s celebration of the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. continues as a reminder that “trouble don’t last always.” In a speech\, Dr. King stressed the need for continuous action despite the challenges when he said: “If you can’t fly\, then run. If you can’t run\, then walk. If you can’t walk\, then crawl\, but whatever you do\, you have to keep moving forward.” \nRegister Here \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-celebration/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T160000
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SUMMARY:Presidential Search Listening Session
DESCRIPTION:Dear Friends\, \nYou have now heard that our President\, Barbara Reid\, OP\, will be passing the torch as president and will turn her focus again to biblical scholarship as a CTU faculty member at the end of this academic year. A search committee to find her replacement as president has been formed\, with representatives drawn from the Board of Trustees\, CTU Corporation Members\, the faculty\, students\, Life Trustees\, and donors. \nThe first task of the search committee is to craft a description of the role of the president in 2025 and beyond\, recognizing that the role has changed in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways since the date Sr. Barbara took office. \nTo inform that process\, the search committee has elected to convene a listening session based on the synodal model\, Conversations in the Spirit. Participants will come together to pray\, share\, and listen to one another\, inviting the Holy Spirit to guide us along the way. \nThe session will take place on Tuesday\, November 19\, from 4:00-6:00 pm (Central time). You are invited to participate in this facilitated listening session either in person at CTU or on Zoom. \nWe value all voices that wish to contribute to a definition of the role of CTU’s president at this point in the 21st century. I am sure Sr. Barbara’s announcement has evoked reflections of her many accomplishments and challenges during her tenure. We want to channel and distill those reflections as we journey to seek her successor. \nI look forward to seeing many of you at the session. \nTom Brown \nChair\, CTU Board of Trustees
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/presidential-search-listening-session/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241113T203000
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SUMMARY:In Good Faith - GEN Z Challenging Organized Religion
DESCRIPTION:Speakers:\n\n\nAnna Levin Rosen\,\nAnna Levin Rosen serves as the Rabbi and Executive Director at UChicago Hillel. Having served UChicago Hillel for 14 years\, Anna’s work is part of the fabric of the University. With a passion for Jewish life and social justice\, Anna has served as a guest educator for a spectrum of organizations in Chicago including Mishkan\, Anshe Emet\, Spertus and Interfaith Family. Committed to social justice\, Anna served as a community organizer with JCRC in Boston and Fairmount Temple in Cleveland. Anna has a Rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati\, where she earned Masters degrees in Hebrew Letters and Educational Administration. She was the recipient of a Dean’s research grant for her thesis project entitled: Thinking Outside the Tzedakah Box. She received her BA from University of Virginia in Religious Studies\, Anthropology\, and Jewish Studies. Anna enjoys travel and spent two years living in Israel. Currently Anna loves exploring Chicago with her husband Tal and her children Joshua\, Eliezra\, Amiel\, and Ezekiel.\nLearn more …\n\n  \n\n\nKaren Ross\, PHD\,\,\nKaren Ross\, PhD (she/her/ella) is a graduate program director\, theology and ethics professor\, and yoga and mindfulness instructor. She currently works as the director of the Pathways@CTU program\, which seeks to engage and empower young people- especially those from marginalized communities- in co-creating the church of tomorrow. She received her PhD in theology and ethics from Loyola University Chicago. Her teaching and research focuses on feminist ethics and Catholic sexuality education\, particularly of young women and girls.\nLearn more …\n\n  \n\n\nSheikh Yousef Wahb\nShaykh Yousef Wahb is an Islamic Law Instructor at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law and a Family Law Author for LexisNexis Canada. He holds an LL.M from Windsor Law\, an MA from the University of Chicago Divinity School\, and a Bachelor’s in Islamic Studies from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. Shaykh Yousef is also a co-founding board member of Green Ummah\, a founding board member of the University of Windsor Muslim Chaplaincy\, and an Islamic Compliance Advisor at Beneficent. Currently\, Shaykh Yousef is pursuing his PhD in Islamic Law at the University of Chicago Division of Humanities.\nLearn more …
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/gen-z-challenging-organized-religion/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center
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SUMMARY:Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Romero Scholars Program
DESCRIPTION:November 9\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n  \nCTU will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Romero Scholars Program on Saturday evening\, November 9\, 2024. Please join us for a festive celebration which will include a fabulous Latin dinner and music.\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n5:30 pm          Reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6:30 pm          Dinner & Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8:00 pm          Dancing\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nFor thirty 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n  \n  \nLocation\nCatholic Theological Union\n5416 South Cornell Avenue\nChicago\, Illinois 60615 \n  \nPlease call 773.371.5415 for more information. \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-the-romero-scholars-program/
CATEGORIES:Romero Program
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241103T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241103T173000
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SUMMARY:Fall Shapiro Lecture
DESCRIPTION:What Bible\, Whose Bible:  Studying the Scripture of Others \n“The” Bible does not exist. Different religious communities have different Bibles\, with different books\, in different orders\, and different languages—and this matters.  How can we be fully sensitive to these when we study the scriptures of others?  By reflecting on The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Bible With and Without Jesus\, Dr. Brettler will explore how we may maintain our own beliefs and commitments while still being attentive to others. \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/2024-fall-shapiro-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP),CTU,Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241027T180000
DTSTAMP:20240926T192303Z
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SUMMARY:Sundays at CTU Lecture with Sr. Donna Markham\, OP\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Perspectives on Leadership from a Woman Leader”\nFollowing Mass\, join us for a lecture by\nSr. Donna Markham\, OP\, PhD\, CTU Fellow in Catholic Leadership Toward Global Healing. As the first woman President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA\, Sr. Donna led nine years of transformative growth\, expanding services to over 15 million vulnerable people. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nMass 3pm – 4pm\nLecture 4pm – 5pm\nReception 5pm – 6pm\nPresider:\nFr Brian Barrons MM\, Rector\nMaryknoll Fathers and Brothers Formation House \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/sundays-at-ctu-lecture-with-sr-donna-markham-op-phd/
CATEGORIES:Sundays at CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241023T200000
DTSTAMP:20241023T174454Z
CREATED:20240924T174409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241023T174454Z
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SUMMARY:Sixth Annual Paul Wattson Lecture: Global Christian Forum: Reshaping the Global Ecumenical Landscape
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:\nThe Revd Dr Casely Baiden Essamuah\, Secretary\, Global Christian Forum\n\n\nAbout The Paul Wattson Lecture Series\nThis yearly lecture\, sponsored by the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement and Catholic Theological Union along with the Association of Theological Schools (ACTS)\, honors the founder of the Friars\, Fr. Paul Wattson\, and focuses on ecumenical and interreligious dialogue and understanding as an important part of the mission to which Fr. Paul devoted his life. \n\n  \nLocation \n\n\n\n\nCatholic Theological Union \n5416 South Cornell Avenue \nChicago\, Illinois 60615 \n\n\n\n\n  \n \nClick here to learn more about the Friars of the Atonement \n  \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/sixth-annual-paul-wattson-lecture/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241008T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241008T203000
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Contributions of Women Toward Peace\, Dignity\, and Justice in the Holy Land
DESCRIPTION:An interreligious conversation with two important Palestinian voices\, Dr. Rima Salah and Dr. Eman Abdelhadi\, on the past\, present\, and future of women’s empowerment\, peacebuilding\, and the pursuit of justice and dignity in the Holy Land. \nCo-Sponsored by: \n\nWith the Support Of: \n\n\n\n\n\nRima Salah\, PhD is Palestinian Catholic and served as a Member of the United Nations High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations and as the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General\, U.N. Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). In addition\, Dr. Salah has had a distinguished career with UNICEF. Her service includes: Deputy Executive Director for UNICEF (2004-2007\, 2011-2012)\, Regional Director for West and Central Africa (1999-2004). As a highly effective advocate for the rights of children and women in armed conflict and post-conflict situations\, she contributed to Security Council (SC) Resolution 1612 on child rights violations and Security Council (SC) resolution 1325 Women\, Peace\, and Security. \n\n\n\n\nEman Abdelhadi\, PhD is Palestinian Muslim and Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research interests investigate the possible ways in which religion influences everyday life\, including political and economic outcomes. She investigates this question from multiple angles using mixed methods. One set of projects examines when\, where and how religion matters for women’s participation in the public sphere through paid employment. Another set focuses on the relationship between religious orthodoxy and political conservatism in the United States. Dr. Abdelhadi’s research has been published in Social Forces\, Socius\, and other social science publications.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/exploring-the-contributions-of-women-toward-peace-dignity-and-justice-in-the-holy-land/
CATEGORIES:Catholic Theological Union and Lewis University Present:,CTU,The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T180000
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SUMMARY:26th Annual Louis J. Luzbetak\, SVD\, Lecture on Mission and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Annual lecture to be held on October 8\, 2024 in CTU 210 B&C \nThe Pyramid Beneath a Church: Causing Muted Signs to Speak in Inculturation\nStanding at the historic center of Cholula\, Mexico\, is a Spanish medieval Catholic church built over a decidedly larger ancient Aztec pyramid\, memorializing the latter’s conquest under the power of the cross. In the art of inculturation\, the sign of the “vanquished pyramid” and its resonances in postcolonial cultures of the Global South\, kindle the interpretive impulse to drill down on anthropological and religio-cultural layers that had been silenced by the sentence of colonial missionary history. What are some creative analytical approaches in a contextual theologian’s tool chest to cause muted signs to speak anew? The apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia (2020) advocates for a “renewed inculturation” where the Church is admonished to listen to ancestral wisdom\, the voices of the elders\, and the rich stories of the original communities. This study proposes a semiotic moment toward Pope Francis’ reconciling vision of inculturation. \n_______ \nAntonio D. Sison\, CPPS\, is Professor of Systematic Theology and Culture\, and Vatican Council II Chair of Theology\, at Catholic Theological Union. His latest authored books are The Art of Indigenous Inculturation: Grace on the Edge of Genius (Orbis Books\, 2021) and Deep Inculturation: Global Voices on Christian faith and Indigenous Genius (as editor and contributor; Orbis Books\, 2024). \n“The Pyramid Beneath a Church: Causing Muted Silence to Speak Inculturation”\n4:00 p.m. — Welcome and acknowledgement of the indigenous people of the land by Roger Schroeder\n4:05 p.m. – Welcome by Ferdinand Okorie\n4:08 p.m. – 45-minute lecture by Antonio Sison\n4:55 p.m. – Q&A\n5:15 p.m. – closing and reception \nParking is available\, Admission is free\, This event is also on zoom
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/26th-annual-louis-j-luzbetak-svd-lecture-on-mission-and-culture/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:Leading a Catholic Organization with and for LGBTQ+ Populations | Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider\, CM
DESCRIPTION:Longtime DePaul University president Dennis Holtschneider\, CM has joined Catholic Theological Union as the Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Fellow for Catholic Leadership. Join us on September 25 at Noon for his installation as the Bernardin Fellow with a public lecture he will offer–“Leading a Catholic Organization with and for LGBTQ+ Populations.” Prof. M. Therese Lysaught (Loyola-Chicago) and Rev. Michael Trail (St. Thomas the Apostle) will respond to Father Holtschneider’s remarks. In person and online. \nPlease bring a lunch. Drinks\, sides\, and salads will be provided. \n  \n\n\n\n\nRev. Dennis Holstchneider CM is a Vincentian priest and the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Fellow of Church Leadership at Catholic Theological Union. He is chancellor and former president of DePaul University and served as chair of the board and then COO for Ascension\, the nation’s largest Catholic health system. Most recently\, he was president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities\, serving the nation’s 200+ Catholic institutions of higher learning.  \n\n\n\n\n\nM. Therese Lysaught\, PhD\, is Professor at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at Loyola University Chicago\, Stritch School of Medicine. Her scholarly work integrates the fields of theology\, medicine\, bioethics\, and global health. Her books include: A Prophet to the Peoples: Paul Farmer’s Witness and Theological Ethics (2023)\, Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue (2022)\, Catholic Bioethics and Social Justice: The Praxis of US Healthcare in a Globalized World (2019)\, On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives on Medical Ethics (2012). She is the Editor of the Journal of Moral Theology and a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life. \n\n\n\n\n\nFr. Michael Trail\, is a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago ordained by Cardinal Blase Cupich in May 2016. Currently\, he serves as pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. A native of Detroit\, Michigan\, Fr. Trail attended Loyola University Chicago for undergrad obtaining a bachelors in Philosophy in 2012. He earned a Masters of Divinity from The University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in 2016.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/leading-a-catholic-organization-with-and-for-lgbtq-populations-rev-dennis-h-holtschneider-cm/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Ite vos: Celebrating 800 years of Francis's Stigmata
DESCRIPTION:SCOTUS DAY EVENT\nBeyond Ite vos: Celebrating 800 years of Francis’s Stigmata \n​At the death of St. Francis\, Br. Elias announces the miracle of the wounds of Christ (stigmata) revealed on the body of Francis of Assisi.\nThis miracle is further revealed by writers and artists\, who attempt to capture the moment of the Stigmata.\nWe will focus our thoughts on two versions of the Stigmata: that of Br. Leo and that of St. Bonaventure as painted by Berlinghieri and Giotto.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/beyond-ite-vos-celebrating-800-years-of-franciss-stigmata/
CATEGORIES:CTU,Event
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of a Missionary Church\, by Stephen B. Bevans\, SVD
DESCRIPTION:Longtime CTU faculty member Stephen B. Bevans\, SVD has written an important new book drawing Pope Francis’s call to missionary discipleship into dialogue with ecclesiology—how we understand what the Church is. Join us in this synodal season to hear Professor Bevans talk about his book as we celebrate his new missionary ecclesiology with responses from three scholars. Copies of the book will be available for sale and Professor Bevans will sign copies during a public reception where free hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be available. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\nStephen Bevans is a priest in the missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) and Louis J. Luzbetak\, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture\, Emeritus at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is the author or editor of twenty-one books\, among which are Models of Contextual Theology\, An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective\, and\, with Roger P. Schroeder\, Constants in Context: A Theology of Mission for Today. From 2014 until 2022 he was a member of the World Council of Churches’ Commission on World Mission and Evangelism. \n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine E. Clifford is Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology at Saint Paul University\, Ottawa. She holds a PhD (Theology) from the University of St Michael’s College\, Toronto\, and a Licentiate (STL) from the University of Fribourg\, Switzerland. \nHer teaching\, research\, and publications are focused in the areas of ecclesiology\, ecumenism\, and the history of the Second Vatican Council. \nCatherine’s recent publications include the collection\, Vatican II at 60: Re-Energizing the Renewal (Orbis\, 2024)\, and The Oxford Handbook on Vatican II\, co-edited with Massimo Faggioli (Oxford\, 2023). Catherine is a delegate from the North American region to the General Assembly of the International Synod: For a Synodal Church in Mission. \n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Ryan\, CP\, Ph.D. is a Passionist priest who teaches Systematic Theology and serves as the Director of the Master of Arts in Theology Program at Catholic Theological Union. He received his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from The Catholic University of America. He is the author of numerous articles and recordings on theological and spiritual topics. He edited and contributed to the book Catholics on Call: Discerning a Life of Service in the Church (Liturgical Press\, 2010) and co-edited with Stephen Bevans Priesthood in Religious Life: Searching for New Ways Forward (Liturgical Press\, 2018). He is the author of God and the Mystery of Human Suffering: A Theological Conversation Across the Ages (Paulist Press\, 2011)\, Jesus and Salvation: Soundings in the Christian Tradition and Contemporary Theology (Liturgical Press\, 2015)\, and Gazing on His Face: A Christ-Centered Spirituality (Paulist Press\, 2020). He is a contributor to and English-language editor of the Diccionario de la Pasión de Jesucristo (Madrid\, San Pablo\, 2015). And he is the author of the forthcoming book Life is Changed\, Not Ended: An Introduction to Eschatology (Paulist Press\, 2024).  \n\n\n\nRespondents: \n\n\nStan Chu Ilo (DePaul)\nCatherine E.Clifford (St. Paul)\nRobin Ryan\, CP
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/book-launch-community-of-missionary-disciples-the-continuing-creation-of-a-missionary-church-by-stephen-b-bevans-svd/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center
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SUMMARY:"Ecclesiam Suam at 60: Dialogue and Synodality from Paul VI to Francis" Professor Amanda Osheim (Loras College)
DESCRIPTION:Amanda C. Osheim\, Ph.D. studies the church with a particular focus on the Holy Spirit and discernment. She is Endowed Professor of the Breitbach Catholic Thinkers and Leaders Program and Professor of Practical Theology at Loras College in Dubuque\, IA. Dr. Osheim studied at University of St. Thomas and the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity before earning her doctoral degree in systematic theology at Boston College. Her publications include A Ministry of Discernment: The Bishop and the Sense of the Faithful (Liturgical Press) and “Stepping Towards a Synodal Church” (Theological Studies). Her current research interests include synodality and exploring how Roman Catholic communities may more fully imitate Christ’s kenotic vulnerability. \n  \n“‘To Know and Love One Another’: Spirituality for a Synodal Church”\nIn his 1964 encyclical Ecclesiam Suam\, Paul VI encouraged the church to humble self-examination that fosters spiritual renewal. By acknowledging the distance between many ecclesial realities and more ideal forms of the church\, Paul pointed to the importance of the church’s continual conversion to Christ not simply for its own sake\, but also for the fulfillment of the church’s mission. Similarly\, ongoing renewal is essential in Pope Francis’s vision of a synodal church. The insights of both popes underscore the need for synodal spiritual practices that nurture the church’s conversion for communion and mission. \nThis event is ONLINE Only
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/a-weekend-of-synodality/
CATEGORIES:Bernardin Center,CTU
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SUMMARY:Schreiter Institute 2024 Spring Symposium on Reconciliation
DESCRIPTION:“Synodality as Field Hospital” is the theme for the Second Annual Schreiter Institute Spring Symposium on a Praxis of Reconciliation.  The global Church is entering into a culmination of a unique synodal process meant to renew global Catholicism and create a “listening Church”. The presenters and attendees at this symposium will explore together how this synodal process can help bring about Pope Francis’ image of the Church as an authentic “field hospital” that tends to the wounds of creation in global and local contexts. \nThis unique gathering will convene scholars\, theologians\, artists\, and practitioners in a public conversation about the challenges and possibilities for renewing the Catholic Church into a Field Hospital\, through the Synodal process\, that authentically attends to the healing of trauma and moral injury in God’s creation. \nMARIA CIMPERMAN\, RSCJ\,  will provide the keynote presentation on May 9th. The final session on May 10th will be an opportunity for all presenters and attendees to participate in a synodal “Conversation in the Spirit” \n  \n\n\n\nMaria Cimperman\, RSCJ\, is Professor of Theological Ethics and Consecrated Life and Founding Director\, Center for the Study of Consecrated Life at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago\, IL. She attended the Synod on Synodality in October 2023 in Rome as a non-voting expert\, only one of two such representatives from the U.S.\, and she will be attending in the same capacity in October 2024. Her research is at the intersection of moral theology\, social ethics and spirituality\n\n\n\nHoon Choi is an Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Bellarmine University. He received his PhD from Loyola University Chicago on Catholic Masculinities and his Master of Divinity and B.A. from Yale Divinity School and Boston College\, respectively. His teaching and research interests intersect among race\, ethnicity\, gender\, sexuality\, and Catholic moral and contextual theology with a particular attention to the spectrum of masculinities and post-colonial methods vis-à-vis (masculine) white supremacy and Western imperialism. Those interests came together in a recent article\, “A Case for Intersectional Theology” and in the forthcoming article\, ‘Fatherhood\, Reproductive Justice\, and the Strategic Invisibility of Men” both in the Journal of Moral Theology.’\n\n\n\nThe V. Rev. Jeffrey Kirch\, C.PP.S.\, is the provincial director of the United States Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Previously\, he served as the Secretary General of the worldwide Congregation and was also in ministry at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer\, Ind.\, of which he is an alumnus. He holds a PhD in Theology from Loyola University Chicago with a focus on ecclesiology.\n\n\n\nAnne McGowan is Associate Professor of Liturgy at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Anne’s vocation as a liturgical scholar was kindled by her involvement in pastoral liturgical ministry\, and the ongoing engagement of academic insights and practical application is an important component of her work. Her research interests focus on the theological\, historical\, and ritual development of Christian worship practices and the ways in which these practices (as articulated in texts and celebrated in living contexts) invite and engage the full and active participation of all members of the Body of Christ and call them to live differently in the Church and in the world.\n\n\n\nDr. Alejandro Nava is a Professor of Religious Studies and Classics at the University of Arizona. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books\, including Wonder and Exile in the New World\, In Search of Soul\, and\, most recently\, Street Scriptures: Between God and Hip-Hop\, (UChicago\, 2022).\n\n\n\nTisha M. Rajendra is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of Migrants and Citizens: Justice as Responsibility in the Ethics of Immigration (2017). She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and has published in journals such as Political Theology and Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. Her popular writing has appeared in Sojourners and the Los Angeles Times. Rajendra is working on a book about solidarity and theories of selves.\n\n\n\nC. Vanessa White is Associate Professor of Spirituality and Ministry at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Director of the Certificate in Black Theology and Ministry. She holds a dual appointment as Associate Director of the Th.M. Program (Master of Theology) at Xavier University’s Summer Institute for Black Catholic Studies. A womanist practical theologian\, her research is focused on the intersections of spirituality and praxis and is attentive to issues of discernment\, health\, racial justice\, diversity/intercultural dialogue\, women’s spirituality\, leadership development\, synodality\, and issues pertinent to the life of Black Catholics.\n\n\n\n\n \nSCHEDULE MAY 9th \n\n\n\nTime\nActivity\n\n\n8:30 am\nBreakfast\n\n\n9:00 am\nWelcome and Opening Prayer\n\n\n9:30 am – 10:45 am\n\nPanel #1: Catholic Spiritualities\, Field Hospital\, and Synodality (Jeff Kirch; C. Vanessa White). \n\n\n\n\nBreak\n\n\n11:15 am – 12:30 pm\nPanel #2: Synodal Listening\, Field Hospital\, and Healing through Music and Liturgy (Alejandro Nava\, Annie McGowan)\n\n\n\nLunch Break\n\n\n2:00 pm to 3:15 pm\nPanel #3: Catholicity\, Synodality\, and Field Hospital at the Intersections (Hoon Choi; Tisha Rajendra)\n\n\n\nBreak\n\n\n5:15 pm\nRECEPTION/HORS D’OEUVRES\n\n\n6:00 pm\nKeynote and Q&A: Maria Cimperman\n\n\n7:00 pm\nClosing Prayer\n\n\n\n\nSCHEDULE MAY 10th \n\n\n\nTime\nActivity\n\n\n8:00 am\nMass\n\n\n8:30 am\nBreakfast\n\n\n9:00 am\nPrayer and Welcome Back\n\n\n9:15 am\nClosing Roundtable “Conversations in the Spirit” with all presenters and attendees\n\n\n11:00 am\nFarewell Remarks and Closing Prayer
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/schreiter-institutes-spring-symposium-on-a-praxis-of-reconciliation-synodality-as-field-hospital/
CATEGORIES:Schreiter Institute for Precious Blood Spirituality (SI@CTU)
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SUMMARY:Varieties of Jewish Cultures
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion\, moderated by Dr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah of University of Groningen\, will feature experts on the Jewish communities of Iran\, Yemen\, and Morocco. After providing an overview of the history of Jewish life in the Middle East\, Dr. Goldstein-Sabbah will facilitate a fascinating discussion that will explore the distinctive aspects of these ancient Jewish communities and consider how they fit into the broader tapestry of contemporary Jewish life. \n  \nDr. Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah\nAssistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Groningen\nSasha Goldstein-Sabbah is assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. She is specialised in the modern history of Middle Eastern and North African Jewry and her research considers how\, disparate Jewish communities interacted with each other through philanthropic\, business\, and religious networks. She is the author of numerous scholarly and trade publications including her recent monograph Baghdadi Jewish Networks in the Age of Nationalism (Brill\, 2021). \n  \n  \nDaniella L. Farah\, PhD\nVisiting Assistant Professor of History & Jewish Studies\nUniversity of California\, Irvine\nDr. Daniella Farah (PhD Stanford University\, 2021) is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of California\, Irvine. Before that\, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies at Rice University. As a historian of the Jews of the modern Middle East and North Africa\, her research focuses on Jewish-Muslim relations\, national belonging\, and Jewish identity formation in nineteenth and twentieth-centuries Iran and Turkey. Her current book project\, Jewish Belonging in Modern Iran: Education\, the Press\, and Integration\, explores how Iran’s Jews leveraged education\, the press\, and nationalistic sentiment to claim belonging to the nation. \n  \nAri Ariel\nAssociate Professor of Instruction\, History and International Studies\,\nDirector of International Studies\, University of Iowa\nAri Ariel is an associate professor of Instruction in History and International Studies at the University of Iowa. His work focuses on Middle Eastern Jews in the Arab world and Israel\, and he is particularly interested in migration\, ethnic and national identity\, and foodways. \n  \n  \n  \n\nDaniel J. Schroeter\nProfessor and Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History\, Department of History\, University of Minnesota\nDaniel J. Schroeter is the Amos S. Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History and Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.  Schroeter has written extensively on the history and historiography of Morocco and the Jews of North Africa and the Middle East in premodern and modern times. His works include The Sultan’s Jew:  Morocco and the Sephardi World and  Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco\, 1844-1886; both books were translated to Arabic and published in Morocco. He is co-editor of Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa (Indiana University Press\, 2011)\, and is currently co-authoring a book on Morocco and the Holocaust: The Story of King Mohammed V Saving the Jews during World War II \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/varieties-of-jewish-cultures/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:CSCL Spring 2024 Symposium
DESCRIPTION:“Moving Along the Arc: Women and Men Religious as Agents of Reconciliation and Transformative Action Towards a More Racially Just Church and World”\nTogether with The National Black Sisters’ Conference (NBSC)\, the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL) at CTU continues the conversation about the role of consecrated religious women and men play in dismantling racial injustice through the current the “Moving Along the Arch” project. \nThe original sin of racism in the United States is surging and those in consecrated life have a critical role to play in systemic healing through their own growth in becoming more strongly promoters of justice\, opposing racism\, and through enabling others to do so through their ministries\, and through programs dedicated to reparations. \nThe center is inviting you to their April 18th and 19th 2024 symposium discussing issues with racism racial/ethnic identity\, social justice and consecrated religious life. \nThis symposium will be of interest to social justice scholars and academics\, religious and interfaith leaders\, social activists and advocates\, theologians\, and community organizers who have made significant contributions to issues of racial justice\, reconciliation\, and transformative action within the context of the church and the broader world. \nOur keynote presentation from Fr. Bryan Massingale\, STD of Fordham University. \n \nSymposium Schedule for Thursday April 18 and Friday April 19\, 2024\nThursday April 18\, 2024\nLunch – Atrium \n\n\n\nTime\n\nActivity\n\n\n1:15 pm\nRoom 210\nI. Welcome and Opening Prayer – Sister Barbara Reid OP President and Sister Chioma\nAhanihu SLW Director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life\, Room 210\n\n\n1:30 pm\n\nII. Keynote Address – Rev. Bryan Massingale\n\n\n2:15 pm\nContemplative Pause\n\n\n3:00 pm\n\nIII. Small Group Conversation Sessions\n\n\n3:45 pm\n\nIV. Plenary: Further audience engagement with Rev. Bryan Massingale\n\n\n4:30 pm\n\nV. Closing Contemplative Prayer and Closure for the Day\n\n\n\n\nFriday April 19\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime\n\nActivity\n\n\n8:00 am\nBreakfast – Atrium\n\n\n8:30 am\n\nI. Welcome Opening Prayer and Introductions\n\n\n9:00 am\n\nII.  Presentation #1 – Fr. Maurice Nutt C.Ss.R.\n“Consecrating Our Chaos: Black Transformation while Living in Chaotic Spaces”\n\n\n\nContemplative Pause\n\n\n9:45 am\n\nIII. Presentation #2 – Sr. Limeteze Pierre-Gilles SSND\n“What does love have to do with it? A question. A mantra. A prayer”\n\n\n\nContemplative Pause followed by Break\n\n\n11:00 am\n\nIV. Conversation with the Presenters\n\n\n11:45 am\nLunch Break – Atrium\n\n\n\n1:00 pm\n\nV. Emeritus Bishop J. Perry – Closing Mass\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nReverend Maurice J. Nutt\, C.Ss.R.\, D.Min.\, A 1989 (M.Div.) graduate of Catholic Theological Union\, Redemptorist Father Maurice J. Nutt holds a doctorate degree in preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology. He completed the executive leadership program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served as pastor in parishes in St. Louis and Memphis. He is a noted Catholic preacher. Father Maurice is a former director of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana\, and a past convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. He is an adjunct professor of preaching at Aquinas Institute of Theology. In 2022 he was inducted in the Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Father Nutt is a member of the Redemptorists’ Denver Province Extraordinary Provincial Council and serves as a consultant of the cause for canonization of Sister Thea Bowman\, FSPA\, for the Diocese of Jackson. His books include Thea Bowman: Faithful and Free\, Down Deep in My Soul: An African American Catholic Theology of Preaching and Preaching Racial Justice. Father Dr. Nutt writes\, and lectures in the areas of homiletics\, Black spirituality and culture\, pastoral theology\, evangelization\, and the intersection of ecclesiology and social justice.\n\n\n\n\nSister Limétèze Pierre-Gilles\, SSND. I was born and raised in Haiti where I graduated from secondary school and began to attend law school before moving to the United States to join my family in Florida. I attended Palm Beach Community College (now Palm Beach State College); Notre Dame of Maryland University\, and Loyola University Chicago. I graduated with a BA in Political Science and Religious Studies; MSW and MA in Women Studies and Gender Studies. \nI entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 2007. I made First Profession of Vows in 2010 and Perpetual Profession of vows in 2016. \nI now minister with Beyond Borders\, a nonprofit organization that is working in Haiti\, hand in hand with the Haitian people to build movements to end the practice of restavek\, provide accessible and quality primary education for children\, prevent violence against women and girls by balancing power between men and women boys and girls\, and support some families on Lagonav Island\, Haiti to overcome extreme poverty.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/cscl-spring-2024-symposium/
CATEGORIES:Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL)
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SUMMARY:Spring 2024 Shapiro Lecture with Dr. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
DESCRIPTION:It’s complicated! Network analysis and Jewish-Christian relationships in the Babylonian Talmud.\n  \nThis talk will introduce a new set of methodological tools for understanding the connections between Jews and Christians in late antiquity. Together with a zoologist\, Prof. Yossi Yovel\, Bar-Asher Siegal will use network analysis\, commonly used in sciences\, to generate models of inter-religious Christian-Jewish networks. Bar-Asher Siegal’s talk will demonstrate the scope\, nature\, and advantages of network analysis for revealing the complex intertwined evolution of the two religions. The network analysis approach is a tool for pointing scholarly research in new directions\, which only reveal themselves as a result of this type of mapping but can also lead us down new and exciting paths that are currently unknown. \n  \nThis event is in-person and online. \nA reception for in-person guests begins at 6:30 CT. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n■ Location\n  \nRev. Donald Senior\, CP Academic Center at Catholic Theological Union \n5416 South Cornell Avenue\, Chicago\, Illinois 60615 \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/spring-shapiro-lecture-spring-2024/
CATEGORIES:Catholic-Jewish Studies Program (CJSP)
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SUMMARY:Deep Inculturation: Global Voices on Christian Faith and Indigenous Genius.
DESCRIPTION:Contributing Authors\n\n\n\nFerdinand Ikenna Okorie\, CMF\, is Vice President and Academic Dean\, and Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Catholic Theological Union\, Chicago. He is the author of Favor and Gratitude: Reading Galatians in its Greco-Roman Context (Lexington Books\, 2020)\, and co-editor of Bible\, Interpretation and Context: Reading Meaning from an African Perspective (Lexington/Fortress Academic\, 2023).\n\n\n\nAgbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator\, SJ\, is Dean of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University\, California\, and a delegate to the Vatican Synod on Synodality assembly (Rome\, October 2023). He is the author of Theology Brewed in an African Pot (Orbis Books\, 2008)\, and Religion and Faith in Africa: Confessions of an Animist (Orbis Books\, 2018).\n\n\n\nÁngel F. Méndez Montoya is Professor and Researcher at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He is the author of The Theology of Food: Eating and the Eucharis (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2012)\, and Teopoéticas del cuerpo: la danza\, la teología filosófica y las intermediaciones de los cuerpos (Universidad Iberoamericana\, 2023).\n\n\n\nCarmel Pilcher\, RSJ\, is a long-time liturgical educator currently resourcing liturgical inculturation among First Nation peoples of Australia and Fiji. A past president of the Australian Academy of Liturgy\, she co-edited Vatican Council II: Reforming Liturgy (ATF Press\, 2013)\, and co-authored “Sacraments and Creation: Ecology–A Conversation with First Peoples” for the T&T Handbook of Sacraments and Sacramentality (2023).\n\n\n\nMarzanna Poplawska is Research Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology\, University of Warsaw\, Poland\, with extensive research experience in ethnomusicology in Indonesian churches. She is the author of Performing Faith: Christian Music\, Identity and Inculturation in Indonesia (Routledge\, 2020).\n\n\n\nChristopher D. Tirres is Vincent de Paul Professor of Religious Studies at DePaul University\,  and the Buckley Visiting Chair in Latinx Theology at Santa Clara University. He is the author of The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith: A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\, and Liberating Spiritualities in the Américas (Fordham University Press\, forthcoming).\n\n\n\nAntonio D. Sison\, CPPS\, is Vatican Council II Chair of Theology and Professor of Systematic Theology and Culture at Catholic Theological Union\, Chicago. He is the author of The Art of Indigenous Inculturation: Grace on the Edge of Genius (Orbis Books\, 2021)\, and World Cinema\, Theology\, and the Human (Routledge\, 2012)\, among others. He is the editor of Deep Inculturation: Global Voices on Christian Faith and Indigenous Genius.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/book-launch-deep-inculturation-global-voices-on-christian-faith-and-indigenous-genius/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:For Love of the Broken Body
DESCRIPTION:Sister Chioma Ahanihu\, Director of the Center for the Study of Consecrated Life\, will join Sister Julia Walsh in conversation to discuss themes in Sister Julia Walsh’s forthcoming spiritual memoir\, For Love of the Broken Body. Possible topics include discernment and adjustment to religious life\, integration into community life\, the evangelical counsels\, and the complexities of publicly committing to the Catholic Church. \n“Julia Walsh gives me hope for a future with religious women changing the world. She tells a story all her own\, but I felt her doubts\, questions\, and passion each step of the way. Highly recommended.”\n—Sister Helen Prejean\, author of Dead Man Walking and River of Fire \n  \n  \n \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/cscl-book-event-sr-julia-walsh/
CATEGORIES:Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL),Event
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240317T150000
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SUMMARY:Sundays at CTU Lecture with Fr. John Kartje
DESCRIPTION:Ecotheology as Echo-theology: Listening for the Word that Reverberates through Creation\nFrom 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. \nProgram Schedule \nMarch 17\, 2024 \n3 pm CT\nSunday Eucharist \nPresider: Very Rev. Giovanni Bizzotto\, cs\nProvincial\, Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians\nSt. John the Baptist Province \nHomilist: Sr. Barbara Reid\, OP\nPresident\, Catholic Theological Union \nImmediately Following Mass \n2024 Dr. Barry Rankin Lecture on God´s Creation \nFeaturing \nRev. John Kartje\nRector/President and Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Mundelein Seminary
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/ecotheology-as-echo-theology-listening-for-the-word-that-reverberates-through-creation/
CATEGORIES:Sundays at CTU
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240309T160000
DTSTAMP:20240209T222145Z
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SUMMARY:Harambee!
DESCRIPTION:  \n \n  \nJoin us for a festive afternoon celebrating the Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program at CTU.\nThis year we will honor Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry\, DD (Retired)\, Vicariate VI\, Archdiocese of Chicago and Postulator for the canonization cause of Venerable Augustus Tolton \nNamed for the first recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States\, the Tolton Pastoral Ministry Program at Catholic Theological Union is an academic\, scholarship\, formation and mentoring program that seeks to integrate the spirit and culture of Black Catholics with rigorous academic study. Tolton Scholars receive a full-tuition scholarship for graduate theological study. Scholars participate in formation and mentoring\, and receive guidance and support from ministerial leaders in the Black Catholic community. The program is sponsored in part by the Archdiocese of Chicago. \nThe impact this theological and ministerial training has on Chicago is significant. Tolton alumni serving across the Archdiocese of Chicago as chaplains\, teachers\, pastoral associates\, campus ministers\, directors of diocesan offices and other ministerial roles. The network and ongoing programming of the Tolton Program continue to nourish its graduates and parishes and remains the only formation program of its kind in the nation. \n\n\n\n\n  \nRSVP by March 9\, 2024. \n  \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/harambee/
CATEGORIES:Tolton Program
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240229T180000
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SUMMARY:2024 World Mission Institute
DESCRIPTION:Register to join us for the 2024 World Mission Institute “Kairos for Creation\, Kairos for Mission: Hope for our Common Home”. This event will be held both in person and virtually on February 29th\, 2024 at 6:00 pm CST. \n  \nEVENT SYNOPSIS\nClimate change presents humanity with a kairos moment\, a critical moment in time when God is leading us into decisive action. Almost forty years ago\, the 1985 South African Kairos Document issued a prophetic word about apartheid. More recently\, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has named the climate crisis as a kairos\, a term the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and others have also now adopted. How can a biblical sense of kairos help our prophetic eco-justice mission of caring for God’s creation today? \n\n\n\n\nDr. Barbara Rossing\nRev. Dr. Barbara Rossing has taught New Testament at LSTC for 30 years\, where she also serves as the seminary’s Environmental Ministry coordinator. Her biblical scholarly work focuses on the apocalyptic book of Revelation. Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation as well as chapters on Revelation\, climate justice\, eschatology\, global mission\, apocalyptic ecology\, and the Bible. \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Joanne (Jaruko) Doi\, MM\nAssistant Professor of Intercultural Studies and Ministry\, CTU \n\n\n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Theodore Hiebert\nThe Francis A. McGaw Professor of Old Testament and Dean of the Faculty Emeritus at McCormick Theological Seminary \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Marvin E. Wickware\, Jr.\nAssistant Professor of Church and Society and Ethics at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago \n\n\n\n  \nEVENT DETAILS\nDinner: 6:00 p.m.\nCTU\, Third Floor Atrium \nProgram: 7p.m.\nVenue: CTU\, Room 210 \nReception will follow. \nInquiries regarding WMI may be addressed to: \nDr. Peter Vethanayagamony\, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago: pvethana@lstc.edu\nDr. Roger Schroeder\, Catholic Theological Union: rschroeder@ctu.edu\nDr. Ken Sawyer\, McCormick Theological Seminary: ksawyer@mccormick.edu \nREGISTRATION
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/2024-world-mission-institute/
CATEGORIES:CTU
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Tolton Lecture "If Not for the Women"
DESCRIPTION:The contributions of the women to the mission and growth of the Church are understated. If Not for the Women\, engages the role of women in the Salvation story of the Christian movement supported by scripture and historical narratives. The cultural context of the role of Black women in the evangelization mission of Kingdom building is explored. \nThe Augustus Tolton Pastoral Ministry Scholarship Program was established in 1990 in partnership with the Archdiocese of Chicago and Catholic Theological Union.  It was developed to meet the growing needs of African American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago.  It provides an opportunity for African Americans to receive academic\, personal\, spiritual and professional education and training in preparation for professional ministry within the Archdiocese of Chicago. \nThe Tolton Program was named after Fr. Augustus Tolton\, born in 1854\, ordained in 1866\, who was the first recognized African-American priest in the United States. A tireless minister and man of God\, Fr. Tolton died on July 8\, 1897.  The cause for canonization was opened in 2010 for Servant of God Augustus Tolton.  The legacy of Fr. Augustus Tolton is evident today through the commitment of men and women of African ancestry who are currently pursuing theological studies at Catholic Theological Union.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/24th-annual-tolton-lecture-if-not-for-the-women/
CATEGORIES:Event,Tolton Program
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SUMMARY:Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Raising Asian Voices in Interreligious Dialogue\nPlease join us for a talk about the importance of promoting inclusivity and diversity in interreligious dialogue and studies. The panelists will discuss the necessity to raise and embrace Asian perspectives in meaningful dialogue that fosters understanding and respect. \n  \nDr. Martin Nguyễn\, PhDProfessor of Islamic Studies\, Fairfield University \n  \nDr. Martin Nguyen’s work revolves around Muslim theology\, ethics\, spirituality\, Qur’anic studies\, and the intersection of race and religion. His current research focuses on theological responses to global mass displacement and modern structural racism. He is the author of Modern Muslim Theology: Engaging God and the World with Faith and Imagination (Rowman & Little Field\, 2019)\, which presents a contemporary theology rooted in the religious imagination. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDr. Joanne Jaruko Doi\, MM\, PhDAssc. Prof. of Intercultural Theologies and Ministry\, Catholic Theological Union \nDr. Joanne Jaruko Doi\, MM\, was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, and is one of five children. During World War II\, her father and grandfather were sent to the Manzanar Relocation Camp\, where the St. Francis Xavier (Maryknoll) parish community served all the Japanese who were interned. After the war\, the Maryknoll parish and grade-school community was restored in Los Angeles\, where Jaruko was nurtured in faith\, education\, and culture. Among her publications is “Japanese American Journeys of Remembrance\, Identity and Solidarity\,” in the T & T Clark Handbook to Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics (T&T Clark\, 2019). \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThis event will be available ONLY online.
URL:https://ctu.edu/event/raising-asian-voices-in-interreligious-dialogue/
CATEGORIES:The Catholic-Muslim Studies Program
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