Events and Activities

Friday, January 18-Saturday, January 19: Co-sponsored conference

  “A Great Cloud of Witness: Saints in the Catholic Tradition”

Speakers:

Lawrence Cunningham, University of Notre Dame

Kenneth Woodward, Former Religion Editor, Newsweek

Ana Astell, University of Notre Dame

Msgr. Kevin Kostelnik, Rector, Cathedralof Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, D.C.

Robert Ellsberg, Editor, Orbis Books

Thursday, March 13: American Catholic Studies Seminar

Topic: " 'Even in Thy Sanctuary, We Are Yet Men': Scandalous Priests, Holy Priests, and Missionary Catholicism in the Early American Church"

Speaker: Michael Pasquier, Florida State University

Respondent:  Tom Kselman

University of Notre Dame

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Place: 1140 Flanner Hall

Saturday, April 5: Seminar in American Religion

Topic: “Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919” (Stanford, 2007)

Author: Gerald McKevitt, Santa Clara University

Commentators: Michael E. Engh, SJ

Loyola Marymount University

Walter Nugent

University of Notre Dame

Time: 9:00 AM - noon

Place: McKenna Hall Center for Continuing Education

Friday, April 17 – Sunday, April 19: Conference

“Catholicism in the American Century”

Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University

Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

Marie Griffith, Princeton University

Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

David Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego

Robert Orsi, Northwestern University

R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame

Lecture: Matteo Sanfilippo, Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy, “Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 17th-20th Century.” Thursday, April 17, 4:00 P.M.

Catholicism in the American Century Conference