Lecture at St. Ignatius: A Long Way From Home: Homeless LGBTQ Youth, Parental Rejection and God’s Merciful Love

Wallace Hall 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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 […]

Lecture | The Long Pilgrimage of Dorothy Day

Wallace Hall 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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.

Lecture | Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?

Wallace Hall 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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.

Lecture | Creating a Shared Planetary Future

Wallace Hall 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY, United States

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 […]