Online Symposium Series

Synodality in Perspective, Traditions Past and Present

Sept. 6-Oct. 25, 2022

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This 6-part online series will examine both the history of synods and the current dialogue around the future of synodality in the Church. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the topic before the October 2023 Rome summit, "For a Synodal Church."

Cosponsored with the Lumen Christi Institute, Nova Forum, American Cusanus SocietyCommonwealHarvard Catholic Forum and America Media

"The Good Life Method"

Meghan Sullivan

University of Notre Dame

October 13, 2022 at 7:30 PM|St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish

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    Join us for a special evening with Meghan Sullivan, UVA alum and now University of Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy. Professor Sullivan will lecture on her new book The Good Life Method: Reasoning through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning (2022), which challenges us to ask the big questions about faith and what makes life meaningful.  All are invited to attend, so bring a friend or come to meet someone new.

Cosponsored with The Center for Christian Study and the UVA Catholic Hoos.

This public lecture is made possible through the support of grant #62372 from the John Templeton Foundation, “In Lumine: Promoting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide."

Friday, September 23, 2022
St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish
400 Alderman Road, Charlottesville, VA
 
4:00pm (Choral) Evensong, for the feast of Our Lady of Walsingham according to the Daily Office of the Ordinariates
 
5:15pm St. Thomas Parish Mass 
 
6:00pm Light Dinner (Registration recommended)
 
6:30pm “Why the Ordinariate?" - Fr. Jason Catania, Parochial Vicar of St. Luke’s Catholic Ordinariate Parish (Washington, D.C.)
 
In 2012 Pope Benedict XVI created three “personal ordinariates,” including the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (for the U.S. & Canada), to welcome those within the Anglican tradition who desire full communion with the Catholic Church. There currently are 42 Ordinariate communities in North America; the closest is St. Luke’s in Washington, D.C. The Ordinariate retains Anglican spiritual elements and its liturgical practices are accepted as a special form of the Roman Rite. Evensong, or sung Evening Prayer, is a particularly beloved element of the Anglican patrimony. Interested in learning more? Then please join us for a special evening at St. Thomas University Parish. All are invited to attend all or parts of the planned events. Online registration for dinner is encouraged to assist us in planning.

The 1994 and 2009 African bishop synods in Rome reflected on the vocation of the African Church within and towards the Universal Church. Fr. Michael Niba will discuss the events of these synods and how they inspired not only the papal exhortations Ecclesia in Africa (1995) and Africae Munus (2011), but also the ongoing efforts of forming and educating the Church in Cameroon today. Fr. Niba is Vice Chancellor and incoming Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the Catholic University in Cameroon, and Research Scholar in the School of Philosophy and the McLean Center at the Catholic University of America as well as at the Center for Applied Research (CARA) at Georgetown University. 
 
All are invited to attend this very special St. Anselm Institute event.

The 1994 and 2009 African bishop synods in Rome reflected on the vocation of the African Church towards the Universal Church. Fr. Michael Niba will discuss the events of these synods and how they inspired not only the papal exhortations Ecclesia in Africa (1995) and Africae Munus (2011), but also the ongoing efforts of forming and educating the Church in Cameroon. Fr. Niba is incoming Dean of Humanities Faculty at the Catholic University in Cameroon, and a Research Scholar at the School of Philosophy and the McLean Center at Catholic University as well as at the Center for Applied Research (CARA) of Georgetown University. 

Prof. Jonathan Lunine, 

Cornell University

"From Mendel to Pope Francis:

Evolution from a Catholic Perspective"

Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 (7:00PM / UVA Monroe 130)

The contemporary sciences of Biology, Paleontology, Organic Chemistry and Astrobiology all contribute in different ways to our understanding of the origins and development off organic materials and of life, but what might a Catholic perspective offer to the most vital of questions? Join us to find out!

Cosponsored with The Thomistic Institute @ UVA

“The Home After the Plague: Family in post-Covid America”

Ross Douthat, New York Times

A Public Lecture Cosponsored by the National Marriage Project at UVA, the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought, the UVA Burke Society
Minor Hall 125, 5:15 PM, September 22, 2021
Missed the lecture? View it here.
 
Where is the American family headed as COVID finally seems to be lifting? On the one hand, the pandemic may have delivered yet another blow to an American family already reeling from dramatic declines in marriage and fertility. On the other hand, in the face of trauma and tragedy, people often develop a new appreciation for family, which could prime the nation for marriage and family renewal. Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist, will discuss the impact COVID has already had on marriage and family life, as well as the effect the pandemic is likely to have on the family in America in the coming years.

"The Trouble with Money: Aquinas on Desire, Economics, and the Good Life"

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 5:15PM / UVA Minor Hall Auditorium
Missed the lecture? Watch it here.
 
 Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia are all about the "pursuit of Happiness," so what could the Angelic Doctor St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) possibly have to say to us and other attentive, high-aspiring, and over-achieving learners at UVA about the trouble with money and our desire for fulfillment and career success? Perhaps far more than you initially might think, and we have invited just the right person to be our guide. Mary Hirschfeld has a double Ph.D.--the first in Economics from Harvard and the second in Theology from Notre Dame. She presently is Associate Professor of Economics & Theology at Villanova University and the author of the fascinating Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Harvard, 2018). 
All are invited to attend this free public lecture, which is co-sponsored with the UVA Chapter of the Thomistic Institute.
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