Events Calendar

2009 SUMMER LECTURE SERIES
with MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS

Wednesday evenings, July 2009
5:00-6:30 pm
Xavier Hall, Fromm Hall, USF Main Campus

July 8, 2009    
My Chicago Catholic Bubble:  Memories (some accurate) of  a Catholic Girlhood

July 15, 2009  
In a Church Without Enemies, What is the Defender of the Faith to do?

July 22, 2009  
Reinventing Catholic

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels is co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. Prior to her work at Fordham, she was the editor of Commonweal magazine, and co-directed American Catholics in the Public Square, a three-year project of the Commonweal Foundation, which published two volumes of essays, American Catholics & Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice, and American Catholics & American Culture: Tradition and Resistance.  She was the editor of the Hastings Center Report, executive editor of Christianity and Crisis, founding editor of Church magazine and editorial director at the National Pastoral Life Center.

THOMAS REESE, SJ

Sponsored by the St. Ignatius Church Adult Faith Formation Program
Sundays mornings, July 19, August 16 & 23
10:45-11:45 am
Fromm Hall, USF Main Campus (Parker & Golden Gate)

July 19, 2009, 10:45-11:45 am
Religion and Politics:  What is Forbidden, What Allowed, What Prudent?

August 16, 2009, 10:45-11:45 am
The Heart of the Eucharist

August 23, 2009, 10:45-11:45 am
Catholics and Obama:  Bishops, People and Issues

Thomas J. Reese, SJ is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, an independent Catholic research institute.  He is former editor of America, a weekly Catholic magazine.  As editor of America, Fr. Reese promoted discussion on current issues facing the Catholic Church and the world.  He is the author of several books including Inside the Vatican:  The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.