PRESENTER: Mark Massa, S.J., Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life and Professor of Theology at Boston College John F. Kennedy’s ‘Houston Speech’ before 300 Protestant clergymen in 1960 supposedly won him the presidency. Was that good news for the Catholic presidential candidates who came after him? About the Presenter Mark […]
PRESENTER: Anne Williams-Isom, New York City Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services This lecture will discuss the foundations, challenges, opportunities, and lessons for leaders as America works to deliver on FDR’s “Freedom from Want.” Deputy Mayor Williams-Isom will delve into areas including poverty, equity issues, the ongoing asylum humanitarian crisis, and how we, as […]
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 […]
