Adult Education
The Elizabeth Higgins Sciutto Memorial Lecture Series
For the Bicentenenial Year 2007-2008
Thursday, October 11, at 7 pm. Professor David O’Brien, Ph.D, of The College of the Holy Cross in Worchester, MA, will lecture on the topic “The Rise of Catholic Intellectuals in New York: Isaac Hecker and the Paulists.”
David O’Brien is Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, where he has taught for almost forty years. He is the author of six books on American Catholic history and has served as President of the American Catholic Historical Association. He has received the Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Distinguished Service to Catholic Higher Education and Pedro Arrupe Award for service to Jesuit higher education. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Voice of the Faithful, the Board of Directors of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and the Advisory Board of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.
2008
April 3, at 7PM Sister Regina Bechtle, S.C., Ph.D, of The College of Mt. St. Vincent, will lecture on Elizabeth Seton and the influence of Women Religious in the Archdiocese of NY. This talk will be followed by a Round Table response from Sister Dorothy Ann Kelly, OSU, former President of the College of New Rochelle and current Provincial of the Ursulines of the Roman Union, Eastern Province; Sister Bridget Driscoll, RSHM, Former President of Marymount College, and Sister Patricia Vetrano, Regional Governance Team, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, New York Province. View or download our flyer.
April 24, at 7PM Rev. Joseph Komonchak, Ph.D, Professor of Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., will lecture on Rev. John Courtney Murray, SJ, architect of the Second Vatican Council’s document on Religious Freedom.
May 22, at 7PM “Jesuits on the Waterfront” A lecture by Dr. James T. Fisher. In 1946 the New York Jesuits Philip Carey and John M. “Pete” Corridan, launched a crusading apostolate for longshoremen in the Port of New York and New Jersey. Corridan’s tireless efforts helped inspire creation of the Waterfront Commission, among other controversial achievements. Corridan also inspired the classic 1954 film ‘On the Waterfront.’ Dr. Fisher is Co-Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham.