PAST EVENTS

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Spring Book Series

Presenter – LINDA EISENMANN

Reviewing her latest book, Higher Education for Women in Postwar America 1945-1965

Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 by Professor Linda Eisenmann explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women’s higher education.
The book not only underscores the impact of this advocacy but also identifies a link between women’s activism during World War II and the women’s movement of the late 1960s. It is a stunning eye-opener as it reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.

Linda Eisenmann is the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at John Carroll University and president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education. She holds a doctorate in the History of Education from Harvard University.

Tuesday, February 12 – 12 noon – Faculty Dining Room

Co-sponsored by the Grasselli Library

Monday, January 29, 2008

Spring Book Series

Presenter – KAREN LONG

Reviewing The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong

The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong is the engaging biography of one of the most prolific popular religious writers of our era. Armstrong writes with disarming
authenticity of her struggles as a nun and the agonizing decision to leave the convent; her disorienting return to the world she left behind; her frustrations as a graduate student, and her eventual and totally unanticipated success as a writer and commentator on religion.

Karen Long, the Book Editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has a long list of personal favorite books. Because she reads dozens of books across many genres, her choice of The Spiral Staircase for our series would indicate that she considers it particularly noteworthy. (It is.)

Monday, January 29 – 12 noon – Faculty Dining Room

Co-sponsored by the Grasselli Library

Monday, December 10 , 2007

Fall Book Series

Presenter – Fr. HOWARD GRAY, S.J.

Reviewing Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott

Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott is narrated by a woman who was born beautiful. She recalls the summer on the eastern end of Long Island when she was on the cusp of turning 15. One critic wrote: “McDermott’s gorgeous novel is laced with provocative insights into the enigma of the mutability of art, death’s haunting presence, our need for fantasies, and the endless struggle to keep our love pure.”

Fr. Howard Gray, S.J. returns by popular demand to review this book. Previously, Assistant to the President at John Carroll University for Mission and Identity, he is now Special Assistant to the President at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Monday, December 10 – 12 noon – Faculty Dining Room

Co-sponsored by the Grasselli Library

Thursday, November 15, 2007

THE POLITICS OF BLOOD, MILK & THE KISS IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY

In a fascinating and original study, Susannah Heschel proposed that religious power is expressed through blood (e.g., martyrdom, circumcision), the kiss (sexuality and mysticism) and milk (the body). Her conviction is that the gendered politics of blood, milk and the kiss configure the self-understanding of Judaism and Jews (male and female), and, to a lesser extent, relations with Christianity. Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. A prolific author, two of her most recent works are Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus and the forthcoming book The Aryan Jesus: Christians, Nazis and the Bible.

6:30PM Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center

Co-spoonsored by the Division of Student Affairs, JCU

Friday, October 26, 2007

EVENING PRAYER AND LECTURE WITH CARDINAL GODFRIED DANNEELS
ARCHBISHOP OF MECHELEN-BRUSSELS

The Cardinal Suenens Center cordially invites you to evening prayer and a lecture with Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussles, at Saint Peter Church on Friday, October 16, at 7pm.

Cardinal Godfried Danneels' interest in liturgy dates back to his graduate studies in Belgium and Rome that subsequently led to his appointment as professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Seminary of the Diocese of Bruges and at the Catholic University of Louvain. His contributions to the Dictionary of Liturgy expanded his reputation as a pre-eminent liturgical scholar and he continues to be in demand across the globe as a speaker on the intersection of theology and liturgy.
As a bishop, Cardinal Danneels maintains as a priority the spiritual nurture and the vital teamwork grounded in faith necessary between priests and lay persons. The cardinal also serves as member of several congregations of the Roman Curia and has been elected by fellow-bishops as a member of the permanent Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops. He is also co-moderator of the inter-faith Committee of the European Council of Religious Leaders, a coalition of senior religious leaders of Europe's historic religions who have committed themselves to peaceful coexistence and reconciliation.

7:00PM Evening Prayer, Saint Peter Church
17th Street & Superior Avenue

Co-spoonsored by The Office of Continuing Education & Formation of Ministers and Saint Peter Church

Wednesday, October 10 , 2007

Fall Book Series

Presenter – Dr. PAUL V. MURPHY

Reviewing his latest book, Ruling Peacefully

Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Professor Paul Murphy is the first in-depth study of this Renaissance cardinal (1505-1563) who led a disordered personal life but who promoted serious religious and pastoral reform of the Church. Professor Murphy captures the paradox of this intriguing personality born into a family synonymous with wealth and power in Mantua.

Paul Murphy is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Catholic Studies at John Carroll University. In addition to Ruling Peacefully, he is the author of many academic articles about the Society of Jesus. He holds a doctorate in history from the University of Toronto.

Wednesday, October 10 – 12 noon – Faculty Dining Room

Co-sponsored by the Grasselli Library

September 26 , 2007

Fall Book Series

Presenter – Fr. BRIAN O. MCDERMOTT

Reviewing Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI

Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI has commanded world-wide attention and has enjoyed months on The New York Times best-seller list. The author’s aim is to salvage the person of Jesus from recent “popular” depictions and to restore Jesus’ true identity as discovered in the Gospels. The pope writes as theologian and believer and offers a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of the central figure of the Christian faith.

Fr. Brian O. McDermott, S.J. is the rector of the Jesuit Community at Loyola College Baltimore and teaches theology at the college. He is the author of What Are They Saying about the Grace of Christ? and Word Become Flesh: Dimensions of Christology. He holds a doctorate from the University of Nijmigem (Netherlands).

May 20 – June 3, 2007

Visiting The Churches Of France: The Glory Of Burgundy and Alsace

France’s rich spiritual tradition glows in her churches and monasteries. Medieval architecture, ranging from small Romanesque churches to great Gothic cathedrals, as well as contemporary expressions in art, are windows to France’s formidable Christian heritage.

Our trip included visits to the monasteries at Fontenay, Vézelay, Taizé and Cluny where the Abbey church, begun in1088, was the largest church in Europe before St. Peter’s Basilica was built in Rome in the 16th century. We also visited Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, and St. Sulpice in Paris as well as the impressive cathedrals at Chartres, Strasbourg, Reims, Metz, and Le Courbusier’s remarkable Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp. Our
fourteen-day excursion was balanced with visits to other sites of
interest along the way.

Father Robert J. Marrone, D. Min., Pastor of St. Peter Church, Cleveland, and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll University was our guide.

March 7, 2007
The Margaret F Grace Annual Lecture 2007
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Presenter – HIS EMINENCE CARDINAL WILLIAM J. LEVADA
Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Vatican City

5:30pm - Church of the Gesu

Co-sponsored by The Institute of Catholic Studies.

February 13, 2007

Spring Book Series

Presenter – STEVEN HAYWARD

Steven Hayward was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, where he attended the University of Toronto and York University. He is now a member of the English Department at John Carroll University. Hayward’s
first book, Buddha Stevens and Other Stories, won the 2001 Upper Canada Writer’s Craft Award.

The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke. Knopf published The Secret Mitzvah of Lucio Burke, an historical novel set in Depression-era Toronto, in 2005. The book begins when seventeen-year-old Lucio Burke knocks a mysterious bird out of the Toronto sky with a baseball and catapults himself into history – into contact with the gorgeous Ruthie, a radicalized labor movement, anti-Semitism, and Mussolini’s fascism. It’s a story about love, friendship, the nature of the miraculous and a quest to change the world.

January 30 , 2007

Spring Book Series

Presenter – THOMAS R. NEVIN

Thomas R. Nevin, professor of Classical Languages at John Carroll University, holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in the history of ideas. His book, Simone Weil (Chapel Hill, 1991), was
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Thérèse of Lisieux: God’s Gentle Warrior. Thérèse of Lisieux, a Carmelite nun and one of three women doctors of the Church, has inspired people as diverse as Jack Kerouac and Thomas Merton. Her autobiography has been translated into sixty languages. Using new archival material, Nevin offers a new understanding of Thérèse as a theologian. His book is already acclaimed as a milestone in Thérèsian studies.

November 13 , 2006

Fall Book Series

Presenter – MARY DORIA RUSSELL

Mary Doria Russell was born in suburban Chicago and holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan. Her novels have struck a deep chord with readers for their respectful but unblinking consideration of fundamental religious questions. Russell’s work has been recognized with many literary awards. The Sparrow and Children of God, two of her earlier books, have been translated into a dozen languages.

A Thread of Grace chronicles the Italian resistance to the Germans during the last two years of World War II and the three cultures (Italian Jews, Italian Catholics and the occupying Germans) that existed side-by-side. One reviewer wrote: “The action moves swiftly, with impressive authority, jostling dialogue, vibrant personalities and meticulous, unexpected
historical detail.”

September 14, 2006

Still An Insider At The Vatican & Now With All Things Catholic

Presenter – JOHN ALLEN, Rome Correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter & Vatican Analyst for National Public Radio, CNN, and ABC.

John Allen, Jr., the Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, has been a frequent guest of the Cardinal Suenens Center at John Carroll University. Along with his other readers, we are aware that he has relocated to New York City and that his “Word from Rome” column
has been re-christened as “All Things Catholic.” The move to New York allows John Allen to report more extensively on the Catholic Church in the United States as well as to travel and report on the Catholic community worldwide.
“Catholicism in the 21st century will be increasingly ‘upside down,’ driven by the experience of the global South, meaning Africa, Asia and Latin America,” Allen added. “I want to tell the story of how this transition will reconfigure virtually everything inside Catholicism, by spending time in those places, figuring out what makes the churches there tick, and
then teasing out how that will influence broader trends.”
John Allen is now based in Manhattan but remains the paper’s Rome correspondent and NCR maintains an office and residence in Rome. His evening with us was incisive, perceptive and newsworthy as always.

5:30PM Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center

Co-Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs

September 14, 2006
Fall Book Series

Presenter – JOHN ALLEN
Author of Opus Dei

John Allen, Jr. is the Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and a Vatican analyst for CNN and National Public Radio. He is the author of The Rise of Benedict XVI, All the Pope’s Men and Conclave. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and The Nation.
Opus Dei is the first serious journalistic investigation of this highly secretive, controversial organization and provides unique insight into the wild rumors that were made famous with the publication of The Da Vinci Code. Allen draws on a wealth of interviews to create an unprecedented portrait of the activities, practices, and intentions of Opus Dei.

Co-Sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs

February 15, 2005
“The Confessions of a Jesuit Priest: One Man's Road”

Presenter – Fr. JAMES MARTIN, SJ
Author of Searching For God at Ground Zero

5:30PM – Conference Room at the Lombardo Student Center

* See Dr. Donnelly's review of "My Life with the Saints" in America

November 17, 2004
“Why Catholics See the World Differently”
(& Why They Are Misunderstood Because of It)

Presenter – Fr. MARK MASSA, SJ
Author of Catholics and American Culture: Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day and the Notre Dame Football Team, Anti-Catholicism; The Last Acceptable Prejudice.

5:30PM – Conference Room at the Lombardo Student Center

October 20, 2004
“An Insider at the Vatican”

Presenter – JOHN ALLEN
Vatican Correspondent for The National Catholic Reporter
Vatican Analyst for CNN, NPR, and ABC
Author of Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election and All the Pope’s Men: The inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks.

5:30 – Jardine Room at the Lombardo Student Center

March 24, 2004
The Margaret F Grace Annual Lecture 2004
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Presenter – HELEN PREJEAN, CSJ
Author of Dead Man Walking and advocate for abolition of the death penalty

July 11-14, 2004
Affective Conversion
The Suenens Center’s Third Conference for Seminary Personnel

Mundelein Conference Center, Mundelein, Illinois

Feb 18, 2004
Presenter - FATHER ROBERT SCHREITER, CPPS
Vatican Council II Professor of Theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago
Author of The Ministry of Reconciliation, and Mission in the Third Millennium

5:30 Auditorium of the new Dolan Science Center

November 10-11, 2003

THÉRÈSE TODAY: A SYMPOSIUM ON THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX ON THE 5th ANNIVERSARY OF HER DECLARATION AS A DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH

Event at The Gregorian University, Rome

October 22-23, 2003

Presenter - FATHER DAVID TRACY
Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago
Author of The Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology and the Culture of Pluralism and other publications.

5:30 Auditorium of the new Dolan Science Auditorium

September 24, 2003
Presenter - DIANNA ORTIZ, OSU
Ursuline Nun and survivor of torture in Guatemala
Author of The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth

5:30 LSC Conference Room

September 17, 2003
Presenter - JOHN L. ALLEN, Jr.
Vatican Correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter
Author of Conclave: The Politics, Personalities and Process of the Next Papal Election

Noon Luncheon McAuley Hall, Gesu Parish
5:30 Auditorium of the new Dolan Science Center Auditorium

August 1-15, 2003
"The Birth of Christianity"
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PAUL & OTHER APOSTLES

Journey to Greece and Turkey
with Professor Margaret Mitchell, 
Fr. Donald Senior, CP,
Fr. George Smiga

April 3, 2003
The Margaret F. Grace Annual Lecture 2003
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Presenter - ELIZABETH JOHNSON
"Your faith and hope, then, are centered in God" - 1 Pet 1:21

This lecture explored new frontiers of the experience of God in our time and the theology that is seeking to explain them. These frontiers can be found in the suffering of people, particularly the poor; in the struggle of women for equal human dignity; in Christianity's encounter with world religions; and in the dialogue with science about the evolution of the universe. In each case, new insights expand traditional understandings of who God is and where God can be found. In their light, Christian hope takes on renewed strength.

February 10, 2003
Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism

Presenter - REV. JACQUES DUPUIS, SJ

November 7, 2002

Sacred Silence

Presenter - REV. DONALD COZZENS

October 28, 2002
Mobilization of Shame: Our Responsibility & Human Rights

Presenter - REV. ROBERT DRINAN, SJ

October 14-20, 2002
The Holy Spirit and Ecumenism
A Conference for Scholars
Bose, Italy 

Participants: Very Reverend Boris Bobrinskoy, David Carter, Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Adelbert Denaux, Ralph Del Colle, Michael Fahey, SJ, Joseph Famerée, SCJ, Lorelei Fuchs, SA, Helmut Harder, Elizabeth Hastings, John Haughey, SJ, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Harding Meyer, Ann Riggs, Cecil M. Robeck, Alan Sell, Mary Tanner, Geoffrey Wainwright, John Zizioulas.

September 26, 2002
A Wounded Church: A Healing Response

Presenter - REV. DONALD COZZENS
Donald Cozzens is the author of the best-seller, The Changing Face of the Priesthood and a recent guest on National Public Radio, the BBC, 60 Minutes, Meet the Press, PBS, NBC, ABC, CBS. Currently he is a Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at JCU.

June 24-25, 2002 Remembering the Call V

Gaudium et Spes: Joy and Hope for a New Generation
The Center for Pastoral Leadership, Cleveland

Presenters:
PROF. MARY DOAK (University of Notre Dame)
REV. JAMES HEFT, SM (University of Dayton)
REV. J-GLENN MURRAY, SJ (Diocese of Cleveland)

Co-Sponsored with:
Borromeo Seminary, Diaconate Office, Notre Dame College, Office of Continuing Education and Formation of Ministers, Pastoral Ministry Office, St. Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology, and Ursuline College

April 4, 2002
The Margaret F. Grace Annual Lectureship 2002
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Presenter - Reverend Ronald Rolheiser, OMI

Author of The Holy Longing on "Where Do I Find Hope?"

April 11-21, 2002

The Ignatian Experience for Trustees: Spain and Rome

with Howard Gray, S.J.

February 21, 2002

Catholic Jewish Colloquium

A Jewish View of Apology and Forgiveness
Presentation by
DR. NEIL GILMAN
Aaron Rabinowitz & Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Theology, 
Jewish Theological Seminary
Response by
DR. DORIS DONNELLY
Director, The Cardinal Suenens Center,
John Carroll University

Sponsored by: The Anti-Defamation League; The Cleveland Catholic Diocese.  Co-Sponsored by: St. Mary Seminary & Graduate School of Theology; The Jewish Community Center; Alvin, Lottie, & Rachel Gray Center for Jewish Life and Learning.

January 21-26, 2002

Inculturation & the Interreligious Dialogue

The Second International Conference for Seminary Rectors
Rome, Italy

Speakers:

November 27, 2001

The Margaret F. Grace Annual Lecture 2001
Made possible by a grant from Barbara and John Schubert

Inaugural Speaker:
His Eminence Godfried Cardinal Danneels
Mechelen and Brussels, Belgium 
on "Where Do I Find Hope?"

October 24-25, 2001

The Suenens Center is proud to cosponsor
An International Conference Honoring Matteo Ricci: Humanist and Scientist

The Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy

October 7, 2001, Washington, DC
Meet Me Under the Healing Tree:

A Gathering of Women  from Jewish, Christian & Muslim Traditions

October 1, 2001

"How Just Is Our Criminal Justice System?"

Presenter - GEORGE ANDERSON, SJ

Editor, America magazine, former Chaplain, Rikers' Island, author of With Christ in Prison: Jesuits in Jail from St. Ignatius to the Present
Co-Sponsored with The Office of the Dean of Students and The Program in Applied Ethics

June 26-27, 2001
The Eucharist: What Keeps Us Thankful

Co-Sponsored with:
Borromeo Seminary, Diaconate Office, Notre Dame College, Office of Continuing Education and Formation of Ministers, Pastoral Ministry Office, St. Mary Seminary and Graduate School of Theology, and Ursuline College

June 1-3, 2001
The Nun in the Post-Modern World

Leuven, Belgium

October 24, 2000
Jews, Catholics & the New Poland: An Insider's Update

Presenter - REV. STANISLAUS OBIREK, SJ

Director, Center for Culture & Dialogue at the Jesuit University College of Philosophy & Education
Krakow, Poland

Co-Sponsored with:
The American Jewish Committee, the Cleveland Diocesan Interfaith Commission,  the Gray Center for Judaica of the Jewish Community Center

October 16-19, 2000

The Reception of Vatican II: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
at Inisfada - Jesuit Retreat Center
Manhasset, New York

Sponsored jointly by
The Cardinal Suenens Program and Université Laval, Québec

September 27, 2000
Teaching, Learning & Women

Presenter - PROF. SUSAN ROSS

September 18, 2000
A Vision of Catholic Education in 2025

MOST REVEREND JOSEPH PITTAU, SJ

Titular Archbishop of Castro in Sardegna
Secretary, Congregation for Catholic Education
Vatican City

June 9-19, 2000

Historical Jesus Colloquium

May 3, 2000
The Changing Face of the Priesthood 

by DONALD B. COZZENS, Ph.D.

April 10, 2000

Conversations on the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus -- Decree 13

with JAN KERKOFS, SJ

March 9-10, 2000
The University & the Trustee

A Conference for Trustees of Jesuit Colleges & Universities
Trinity Church , Wall Street, N.Y.

Presenters:  Winston J. Churchill, Vincent M. Cooke, SJ, Charles L. Currie, SJ, Richard T. Ingram, Paul L. Locatelli, SJ, William J. McDonough, John W. Padberg, SJ, Archbishop Joseph Pittau, SJ

[Follow-up forthcoming by AGB, AJCU, ACCU in 2002]

February 28, 2000

Conversations on the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus -- Decrees 4 & 5

with JOHN COLEMAN, SJ

December 15-16, 1999

The Holy Spirit & Ecumenism

A Conference for Theologians at  The American College , Leuven , Belgium

November 10, 1999

Conversations on the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus -- Decree 14

with BRIAN MCDERMOTT, SJ

Available

Charisms for the 21st Century
Published October 1999

September 22, 1999

Conversations on the 34th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus -- Decrees 1 & 2

with VINCENT O'KEEFE, SJ

Available

Video Documentary: The Cardinal Suenens Story
Released May 1999

May 26, 1999

Premiere: The Cardinal Suenens Story Photo Album