Lecture | Where is the Church and the LGBT Community?

Zoom

Join Boomers & Beyond for a conversation with our own Fr. James Martin, S.J., author of Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity and Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone. Registration is not required. To join the lecture, click this link. Questions? […]

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Caring for the Caregiver

Zoom

Many must serve as caregivers - for elderly parents or relatives, for grandchildren, for partners and friends.  Because of the spiritual and emotional demands of caregiving, burnout is an ever-present hazard. Our sessions will explore how we can engage in self-care, set boundaries, re-envision our role and renew our lives. (N.B. One need not be […]

Zoom Webinar: Preparing for the Moral Life: Vulnerability, Recognition and Conscience (Lectures at St. Ignatius)

Church 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Click here to register for the webinar. Speaker: Rev. James F. Keenan, S.J. This talk suggests that longstanding “conscience formation programs” are not all that successful unless they help us first to cultivate the capacities to be vulnerable to one another and to recognize the other, often overlooked. My thesis is that, until there’s vulnerability […]

Virtual: LME Day of Reflection

Online

For the first 2022 LME event, we will welcome Helen Young, Emmy award-winning journalist. She will highlight her documentary, “The Nuns, the Priests, and the Bombs”, which follows the work of Sister Megan Rice who was a parishioner 80 years ago. Sadly, Sister Megan passed away last October, but remembering her legacy echoes our parish's […]

Lecture | The Birth of American Catholic Theology

Church 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

In the Main Church & Livestreamed   PRESENTER Rev. Roger Haight, S.J. Pioneering Catholic theologian, former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and Visiting Professor at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City   The talk will set the background of pre-Vatican II Catholic theology and then describe how this theology developed […]

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Course | The Passion Narratives – A Spirituality of Suffering and Struggle

Zoom

Four Thursdays, Beginning March 10th 7 PM on Zoom    Jesus teaches us through his Passion that the way we encounter suffering can become a gift to those we love, to the world. Our meetings will include a careful reading and interpretation of selected texts of the Passion stories and an exploration of how, like Jesus, […]