PRESENTER Fr. James Martin, S.J., Editor at Large, America Magazine A behind-the-scenes look of the Synod of Bishops from Fr. James Martin, S.J., Synod delegate.

Presenter Fr. Sam Sawyer, S.J. Editor in Chief, America Magazine Hope calls us to more than just optimism about things turning out well. When we take hope seriously, we are also called to take responsibility for what we hope for.

Presenter: Mr. Carl Siciliano, Founder of the Ali Forney Center, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive housing program for homeless LGBTQ youth Surely one of the cruelest disparities faced by LGBTQ people is the unequal access too many have teens have to their parents' love and support. Carl will discuss the frequent tethering of parental […]

Wallace Hall & Livestreamed Presenter: Mr. Robert Ellsberg, Publisher, Orbis Books Robert Ellsberg will reflect on Day's long life "on pilgrimage," and the way her faith was tested by daily life and the challenges of history. About the Presenter Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, worked with Dorothy Day for the last five years […]

Presenter: Prof. Robert Klitzman, M.D., Director of the Masters of Bioethics Program, Columbia University. Patients and families often struggle with religious, spiritual and existential quandaries, especially when confronting the end of life. This lecture will explore how these individuals seek and find sources hope, meaning, purpose and connection, and how hospital chaplains often help.

Presenters: Profs. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Allen Grim, Co-Founders and Co-Directors of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, is an invitation to respond to the “Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor”. It has been called the most important document of the […]