Today

  • Lecture | George Washington and Abraham Lincoln: Character, Image, Leadership, and Personality 

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

    Circle of Friends welcomes back Helen Lee, our November 2025 lecturer, for its February program celebrating Presidents’ Day. The program will explore the two presidents honored in February—George Washington and Abraham Lincoln—examining their character, leadership, personality, and public image as expressed through art, writings, and photography. George Washington’s image was carefully shaped not only by […]

  • Lecture | Walking Together: An Eyewitness Account of Pope Francis’s Legacy of Synodality and the Renewal and Reform of the Church

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

    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 […]

  • Walking Together: An Eyewitness Account of Pope Francis’s Legacy of Synodality and the Renewal and Reform of the Church

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

    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 […]

  • Book Launch | Work in Progress: Confessions of a Busboy, Dishwasher, Caddy, Usher, Factory Worker, Bank Teller, Corporate Tool, and Priest by Fr. James Martin, S.J.

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

    Join us for the book launch of Fr. James Martin's newest book, Work in Progress. Work in Progress is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 1960s and 1970s, tracing Father Martin’s early years as he stumbles—often unprepared—into a series of jobs he never imagined himself doing. From restaurant kitchens to golf courses to factory floors, […]

  • ICE Warning Whistle Kit-Making Workshop

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

    Join us as we assemble whistle kits for vulnerable parishes in the New York metro area. Father Eric Cruz, Director of Catholic Charities for Westchester, Putnam Counties, and the Bronx, and the Director of Pastoral Migratoria Immigration Ministry, will open with a brief talk on the urgent situation in the Archdiocese. In addition to whistles, […]

  • Epiphany Retreat Day

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

    In anticipation of the Feast of the Epiphany on Sunday, join us for a few hours of prayerful reflection and contemplation as we consider the days between the birth of Christ and Christ's manifestation to the whole world, which we commemorate through the visit of the Magi to the Holy Family. Hosted by the Father […]