Events Calendar

SUMMER SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE:  JAMES F. KEENAN, SJ
1900-1970:  The Evolution of Moral Theology

The Lane Center is delighted welcome James F. Keenan, SJ, moral theologian at Boston College, as the Lane Center Scholar-in-Residence during the summer of 2008.  Fr. Keenan will deliver a series of public lectures on his current research in the area of moral theology in the age of HIV/AIDS.  July 2, 2008:  The Moral Manuals and Moral Pathology July 9, 2008:  Innovation July 16, 2008: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences 5:00-6:30 pm Handlery Dining Room, Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100

Fr. Keenan is a Jesuit priest from the New York Province.  He is one of the world’s leading moral theologians in the areas of virtue ethics, health care, and HIV/AIDS.  He is the author or editor of many books and hundreds of scholarly articles.  He has held fellowships and chairs at the University of Edinburgh, Princeton, John Carroll, the Gregorian University, Loyola School of Theology in Manila, and Boston College.  He is the Chair of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church and an advisor to the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance.  In 2006 he convened the world's first International Crosscultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethicists in Padua, Italy. Course credit available for master's and doctoral students enrolled through the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership (ICEL) in the School of Education at USF.   Contact ICEL at (415) 422-2083 for more information.

2008 JUSTICE LECTURE

Greg Mortenson Monday, September 8, 2008 5:00 pm McLaren Complex, University of San Francisco

Greg Mortenson is the co-founder of the Central Asia Institute and co-author with David Oliver Relin of Three Cups of Tea, winner of the 2007 Kiriyama Prize and the 2008 summer reading selection for all incoming USF students. It is the riveting and inspiring account of mountain-climber Greg Mortenson’s heroic efforts to bring education and literacy to remote and volatile regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.  As of 2007 Mortenson has established over 61 schools in the region providing education to 25,000 children, including 14,000 girls, where few educational opportunities existed before.  He is a living hero in rural communities where he has gained the trust of Islamic leaders, militarcommanders, government officials, and tribal chiefs.  Mortenson advocates girls’ education as the top priority to promote economic development, peace and prosperity, and says, “you can drop bombs, hand out condoms, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.” 

No tickets are reservations are required for this event.  Seating is available on a first come, first served basis. 

URBI ET ORBI LECTURE
For God and Country:  Patriotism and Religious Identity Today
Thomas Massaro, SJ

Thursday, September 25, 2008
5:00-6:30 pm
Xavier Hall, Fromm Institute, USF

Social ethicist Thomas Massaro, SJ reflects on the perennial tensions surrounding our efforts to combine loyalty to God and nation, and on the major challenges facing American Catholics today.  Thomas Massaro, SJ is professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology. His teaching interests include Catholic social ethics, theories of economic justice, and the history of Christian political thought. His research focuses on how Catholic social teaching may contribute to a constructive consensus on responsible public policies. He is the author of many articles and four books including: Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Liturgical Press, 1998); Living Justice:  Catholic Social Teaching in Action  (Sheed & Ward, 2000); American Catholic Social Teaching with Thomas Shannon (Liturgical Press, 2002); and Catholic Perspectives on Peace and War with Thomas Shannon (Rowan & Littlefield, 2003).