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 […]
Presenter: Rev. A.E. Orobator, S.J., Dean, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University Pope Francis believed that “it is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the Church of the third millennium.” As a participant in the Synod on Synodality (2021-2024), Rev. Orobator will offer an eyewitness account of the gifts and […]
Presenter: Rev. A.E. Orobator, S.J., Dean, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University Pope Francis believed that “it is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the Church of the third millennium.” As a participant in the Synod on Synodality (2021-2024), Rev. Orobator will offer an eyewitness account of the gifts and […]
Presenters: Rev. James Martin, S.J., and Rev. Sam Sawyer, S.J., Editors-at-Large of America Media What did it mean for the Pope to be a Jesuit? How did this influence his papacy and the Church?
Location: Temple Emanu-El, 1 East 65th Street, the lobby entrance between 5th and Madison Avenue PRESENTERS: Fr. Michael Hilbert, S.J. & Rabbi Emma Dubin What really is religious law? In our first session, we’ll explore what law means in each religion—where authority resides within the tradition, how legal thinking has developed over millennia, and how binding […]
