St. Thomas / St. Catherine Lectures

sponsored by The Department of Theology and Philosophy

January 2012:
Nuala Kenny, OC, MD, Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University; fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada; advisor to the Catholic Health Alliance of Canada

“Neuroethics and the Neuroscience of Morality”
Sponsored by the Barry University Council on Bioethics

January 2012:
Roberto S. Goizueta, PhD, Professor of Theology, Boston College; past president of the Catholic Theological Association of America and the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians in the United States

“Against the Pursuit of Happiness: The Preferential Option for the Poor and the Denial of Death”
2012 Yves Congar Award recipient

April 2011:
Catherine Vincie, RSHM, PhD, Professor of Liturgical Theology, Aquinas Institute of Theology;
President of the North American Academy of Liturgy

“What is at Stake: Pastoral Implications”
Second of two lectures in The New Roman Missal Series

March 2011:
Douglas Allen, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, University of Maine; founding member of the Maine Peace Action Committee; education coordinator, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine

“The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and Violence and Terrorism Today”

February 2011:
John F. Baldovin, SJ, PhD, Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry; recipient of the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Liturgy

“Liturgical Reform: Historical and Theological Context”
First of two lectures in The New Roman Missal Series

January 2011:
Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, PhD, Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame; past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America; Madeleva lecturer in Spirituality, 2001

“In Memory of Lois and Eunice: Handing on a Living Tradition of Faith”
2011 Yves Congar Award recipient

March 2010:
James B. Nickoloff, PhD, STL, Adjunct Professor of Theology, Barry University; opera aficionado; editor of Gustavo Gutiérrez: Essential Writings

“Gustavo Gutierrez Meets Giuseppe Verdi: The Liberation of Beauty and the Beauty of Liberation.”

February 2010:
Metti Amirtham, SCC, PhD, field-based theologian, vice-president of Tamil Systematic Theologians Associations, India

“Discriminating Health Care and Dehumanizing Women: Concrete Evidences from India”
Sponsored by the Barry University Council on Bioethics

November 2010:
David F. Kelly, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Health Care, Duquesne University; founding director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at Duquesne University

“Obligations and Options for Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State”
Sponsored by the Barry University Council on Bioethics

June 2010:
Donald J. Goergen, OP, PhD, STM, Dominican Theologian at the Aquinas Institute of Theology; Prior of St. Dominic Priory, House of Studies, St. Louis; co-founder of the Dominican Ashram

“A Wider Vision: Biblical, Catholic, and Cosmic”
2011 Yves Congar Award recipient

Previous guests in the Barry University St. Thomas/ St. Catherine lecture series have included:

• Rev. Bryan Massingale, STD, Marquette University
• Margaret Farley, RSM, PhD, Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics, Yale Divinity School
• Dr. Michelle González Maldonado, PhD, University of Miami and Barry University Institute for Hispanic/Latino Theology & Ministry
• Allen Figueroa Deck, SJ, PhD, STD, Loyola University and Barry University Institute for Hispanic/Latino Theology & Ministry
• Hosffman Ospino, PhD, Boston College
• Maria Dolores Espino, PhD, St. Thomas University
• Alex Mikulich, PhD, Loyola University
• Shawnee Daniels-Sykes, SSND, PhD, Mount Saint Mary College
• Maria Cimperman, OSU, PhD, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Social Ethics, Oblate School of Theology
• Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University

Please note: All associations indicated for lecturers were current at times lectures were delivered.