The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought seeks to promote a Catholic intellectual presence and community at the University of Virginia, to make the richness of the Catholic tradition of thought and action available for public consideration by all, and to contribute to Catholic intellectual and cultural life in Virginia and the United States.
Joseph E. Davis, IASC/Sociology
Robert J. Boyle, Medical School
John Bunch, School of Education
Mary Katherine Burke, Drama
Gerald Fogarty, S.J.,Religious Studies
Alfredo Garcia, Engineering
Kevin Hart, Religious Studies
Charles Kromkowski, Politics, Executive Director John Miller, Classics
Robert Ribando, Engineering
Jorge Secada, Philosophy, President Kathryn Sharpe, Darden
Rebecca Stangl, Philosophy
Ed Stelow, Medical School
W. Bradford Wilcox, Sociology
William M. Wilson, Religious Studies
WELCOME BACK UVA Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends of the Institute
Summers are great! But if they must end, . . . then there must be something even greater we can think about: like celebrating the 10th year of the St. Anselm Institute!
We're looking forward to this academic year, but even more so because it includes our 2010-2011 calendar of scheduled public lectures, programs, and events. The Institute's year begins with our Annual Fall Faculty/Student and Friends of the Institute Dinner on September 24. Our public lecture series begins on Thursday, October 7; and our faculty/student Doctors of the Church lunch seminar series will begin on October 8.
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The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought is a voluntary organization of Catholic faculty and others dedicated to promoting the Catholic intellectual tradition at the University of Virginia and beyond. Founded in 2000, the Institute supports several activities, including a public lecture series, a faculty-student dinner, study groups, a Lenten faculty retreat, and an annual appeal to support Catholic education in Saltadère, Haiti.
The St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought thanks all faculty, students, parents, alumni and friends of the Institute who participated in and supported our activities at the University this past year. We look forward to renewing our 10th year of activities in the fall, including our annual faculty-student dinner, our popular public lecture series, and our Doctors of the Church lunch seminars.
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2009-2010 Public Lecture Series IV: Schiltz on Catholic Feminism
Elizabeth Schiltz University of St. Thomas Law School
"Taking Complementarity Seriously:
A Catholic Approach to Gender Differences,
Feminism, and Public Policy"
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2010 (4:00pm) University of Virginia / Monroe Hall, Room 110
University of St. Thomas Law Professor Elizabeth Schiltzengaged and encouraged her standing room only crowd to consider how the Catholic tradition offers numerous resources for developing a new and bolder feminism that promotes an integral, rather than fractional, understanding of gender complementarity. Inspired by Pope John Paul II's 1988 apostolic letter "On the Dignity and Vocation of Women" and the works of others--from St. Edith Stein to the recent scholarly works of Sr. Prudence Allen--Schiltz confidently contended that feminists from a faith tradition like Catholicism, which takes embodiment seriously, must necessarily be more active participants in discussions of gender identity.
2009-2010 Public Lecture Series III: Robert Louis Wilken Lecture
Robert Louis Wilken "Catholicism and Culture"
Thursday / March 25, 2010
UVA / Minor Hall Auditorium / 5:00-7:00pm
On the Feast of the Annunciation, the faculty and friends of the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought welcomed back Robert Louis Wilken by inaugurating the annual Robert Louis Wilken Lecture in honor of his dedicated service to and leadership of the St. Anselm Institute since its founding in 2000.
2009-2010 Public Lecture Series II: Mariani on Hopkins
Paul Mariani Boston College
"The Life and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J."
October 22, 2009 / Minor Hall / University of Virginia/ 5:00pm
"Sometimes a Lantern moves along the night
That interests our eyes." -- GMH, SJ
On Thursday evening (Oct. 22), the St. Anselm Institute warmly embraced and welcomed Boston College Professor Paul Mariani to the University of Virginia. Prof. Mariani is a widely acclaimed and prolific authority on British and American poetry and literature, including his sixteenth and latest book: Gerard Manley Hopkins, A Life (Viking, 2008).
2009-10 Public Lecture Series I: McAnerney on Iconography
Brendan McAnerney, O.P.
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Graduate Theological Union
"Holy Icons - Holy Churches"
Minor Hall / University of Virginia WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMEBER 30, 2009, 7:00-8:30pm
"In the study of revealed truth East and West have used different methods and approaches in understanding and confessing divine things. It is hardly surprising, then, if sometimes one tradition has come nearer to a full appreciation of some aspects of a mystery of revelation than the other, or has expressed them better. In such cases, these various theological formulations are often to be considered complementary rather than conflicting" (Second Vatican Ecumencal Council)*.
Fr. Brendan McAnerney, O.P.--a Dominican priest with additional priestly faculties in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church --visited the University of Virginia on September 30-October 1, 2009. Trained as an artist and art historian in the Byzantine tradition, with a deep reservoir of experiences as a Dominican, former gallery employee and director, and in his present position leading DominICON Ministry in Sacramento, Fr. Brendan exposed his UVA audiences to the theology, history, grammar and techniques that comprise the holy art of icons, from its origins in the Eastern Roman Empire through its development in the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
Icons, Fr. Brendan made clear, are not created by artists as immediate forms of self-expression or commodities for self-promotion.
participated in and supported our activities at the University this past year. We look forward to renewing our 10th year of activities in the fall, including our annual faculty-student dinner, our popular public lecture series, and our Doctors of the Church lunch seminars.
mission and our activities.
nly crowd to consider how the Catholic tradition offers numerous resources for developing a new and bolder feminism that promotes an integral, rather than fractional, understanding of gender complementarity. Inspired by Pope John Paul 
II's 1988 apostolic letter "On the Dignity and Vocation of Women" and the works of others--from St. Edith Stein to the recent scholarly works of Sr. Prudence Allen--Schiltz confidently contended that feminists from a faith tradition like Catholicism, which takes embodiment seriously, must necessarily be more active participants in discussions of gender identity. 
On the Feast of the Annunciation, the faculty and friends of the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought welcomed back Robert Louis Wilken by inaugurating the annual Robert Louis Wilken Lecture in honor of his dedicated service to and leadership of the St. Anselm Institute since its founding in 2000.