April, 2009

Spring Book Series

Presenter – Dr. Joseph F. Kelly

Reviewing The Birth of Jesus According to the Gospels

In this book Dr. Joseph Kelly turns to the infancy narratives to see what the New Testament tells us about the Nativity. Readers will likely discover that their Christmas celebrations, cards, pageants, and crèches are often combinations and embellishments of the gospel narratives.

Joseph F. Kelly, PhD, is professor of religious studies at John Carroll University. He is author of The Origins of Christmas, An Introduction to the New Testament for Catholics, The Collegeville Church History Timeline, and The Ecumenical Councils (forthcoming), all published by Liturgical Press.

12 noon – Murphy Room

For more information on his book, visit Liturgical Press

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Spring Book Series

Presenter – Fr. DANIEL J. HARRINGTON, S.J.

Reviewing The Wisdom Books

The Wisdom Books that we celebrate are part of the new and limited Heritage Edition of the Saint John’s Bible, presented as a gift to JCU by a generous donor. It is the first handwritten, illuminated bible commissioned since the invention of the printing press. Using the finest archival paper, select inks, genuine gold foils, this unique edition has been scrupulously compared to its original counterpart to guarantee accurate reproduction.

Fr. Daniel J. Harrington, S.J. is Chair of the Biblical Studies Department at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the author of thirty books and hundreds of book reviews and notes for New Testament Abstracts for which he serves as editor.

Wednesday, April 2 – 12 noon – Faculty Dining Room

Co-sponsored by the Grasselli Library

Monday, April 14, 2008
The Margaret F Grace Annual Lecture 2008
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Guest Speaker: Reverend J. BRYAN HEHIR
Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion & Public Life,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

The Margaret F. Grace Lecture is an annual event of The Cardinal Suenens Center at John Carroll University and is made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert.

5:30PM, Monday, April 14, 2008

Donahue Auditorium Dolan Center for Science & Technology
John Carroll University

This year the lecture is co-sponsored by The Walter & Mary Tuohy Chair of Interreligious Studies and The Division of Student Affairs

May 23 - June 5, 2008

Italy’s treasures

Our visit to Italy will begin in Milan at the majestic Duomo where centuries ago Augustine heard the sermons of Ambrose, Milan’s archbishop, and was encouraged to become a Christian. We will experience some of Milan’s religious, artistic and cultural highlights before traveling to Padua to see Giotto’s murals at the Scrovegni Chapel. In Bologna we will sample the cuisine for which the city is duly famous en route to Ravenna and the superb Byzantine period mosaics at San Vitale. The incomparable city of Florence is next on our itinerary where writers such as Dante, Petrarch and Machiavelli contributed to its literary heritage while the paintings and sculptures of Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Donatello turned the city into one of the world’s greatest artistic capitals. Visits to Siena, Orvieto, Urbino, Gubbio and optional day trips to Lucca, Montepulciano and Assisi will round out our pilgrimage. Professor Doris Donnelly, director of the Cardinal Suenens Center, and Father Robert J. Marrone, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University, will be the guides for this trip.

Detailed information and registration will be available after
October 1, 2007. Please call 216-297-1651.

Spring 2008

A Colloquium on JESUS OF NAZARETH

In the Foreword to Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI,
invites conversation about his “personal search for the face of the Lord” with the
scholarly community in a spirit of “initial goodwill without which there can be no
understanding.” Through the generosity of Margaret F. Grace, the Cardinal
Suenens Center is honored to sponsor a gathering of theologians and historians to discuss Pope Benedict’s book. We are especially pleased that the Department of Theology at the Catholic University of Leuven has offered to be a co-sponsor of this colloquium.

September, 2009
Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Belgians at Vatican Council II

With the collaboration of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Joseph Famerée, Jan Grotaers, Calude Soetens, and Mathijs Lamberigts, The Cardinal Suenens Center will co-sponsor the second conference on the Contribution of the Belgians to the Second Vatican Council in September, 2008.