Catholic Studies at Aquinas College
Catholic Studies Speaker Series
Catholic Studies Speaker Series
Fall 2022 Events
Dr. Peter Kreeft
September 30, 2022
Background
Launched in 2009, the Catholic Studies Speaker Series offers 2-3 lectures per year by national and international Catholic figures and scholars. The series also brings students into contact, both in the classroom and in informal settings, with great living Catholic thinkers like Bishop Robert Barron, Joseph Pearce, Eleonore Stump and Duncan Stroik. The series helps fulfill the mission of the Catholic Studies program, "to share the riches of the Church's own culture" with students and the community
Previous Catholic Studies Events
Mary C. Moorman
A Theology of Indulgences: A Revised Construal
Mary C. Moorman brings her combined interests in law and theology to the fore in her initial work on the legal and theological framework which undergirds the Church's indulgences. Mary holds a Juris Doctor in law with a focus on religious legal systems from Boston University. She completed her work in medieval systematic theology at Yale and Southern Methodist University. She is author of "Indulgences: Luther, Catholicism, and the Imputation of Merit" (Emmaus Academic, 2017).
Fr. Paul Murray
Fr. Robert Barron, "Thomas Merton's Metaphysics of Peace"
Fr. (now Bishop) Robert Barron
From Left to Right, President Juan Olivarez, Fr. Robert Barron, Dr. John Pinheiro
A capacity crowd listens to Fr. Robert Barron speak on Thomas Merton
Fr. Robert Barron
Dawn Eden, "My Tangled Road to Rome"
Sr. Mary Prudence Allen, RSM, Ph. D., "Can the Complementarity of Woman and Man be Proved?
Dr. Ralph Martin, “The New Evangelization: Why Bother?”
Presented by Eerdmans Bookstore
Special Lecture on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
by George Weigel
George Weigel speaking on the mission of Catholic higher education.
Among the attendees were the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.
A capacity crowd listening to George Weigel.
Dr. John Pinheiro, Mr. George Weigel, President Juan Olivarez