Past Kennedy Lectures
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2024 "Living Our Faith in Turbulent Times" – A Conversation with Paul Elie. Watch the Lecture
2023 A Conversation with Kate Hennessy – Granddaughter of Dorothy Day, "An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day." To watch the recording of the Zoom webinar, enter DqWU+9fT when prompted the enter a passcode. For the introduction, you will want to fast forward to timecode 5:15. For the start of Kate's conversation, fast forward to 8:52.
Watch the Lecture2022 Father Tom Gaunt, S.J., Executive Director CARA-Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. "Our Journeying Together: Who are we listening to? Who are we accompanying?"
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2021 Joan Rosenhauer, Executive Director of Jesuit Refugee Service/USA
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Presentation slides from Joan Rosenhauer's Kennedy Lecture.
2020 Father Thomas Massaro, S.J. "Caring for Our Common Home: Pope Francis' Call for an Integral Ecology"
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2019 Hadia Mubarak, Ph.D. "Growing Up Muslim in America: At the Crossroads of Faith."
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2018 Bishop George V. Murry, S.J.,Chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism. “The Times Demand it, the Gospel Demands it: Confronting the Sins of Racism”.
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2017 Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ “Save the World or Savor It? Being Reached by the Widow, Orphan and Stranger.”
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2016 Gerard Mannion, DPhil., Amaturo Professor in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University “Remembering the Future and Re-engaging the People of God: Pope Francis and Vatican II”
2015 Edwina Gateley “Discipleship: Giving Birth to God in a Contemporary World”
2014 Rev. Daniel Groody, CSC “Dying to Live: Migration ,Human Trafficking and Theology”
2013 Rev. Bryan Massingale, S.T.D. “The Dark Nights of Malcolm X: Catholic Spirituality and the Challenge of Social Justice”
2012 Br. Guy Consolmagno, SJ “The Heavens Proclaim: Astronomy and the Search for God”
2011 Fr. William O’Neill, SJ “Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and Its Theological Origins”
2010 Margaret O’Brien Steinfels “Reinventing Catholic”
2009 Edward Kessler “Challenges in Jewish-Christian Relations”
2007 Shawn Copeland “Who is My Neighbor?”
2006 Thomas J. Reese, SJ “Survival Guide for Thinking Catholics”
2005 Luke Timothy Johnson “Faith and Possessions”
2004 Susan A. Ross “Women’s Work as Unopened Gift”
2003 James F. Keenan, SJ “Living With an Adult Conscience”
2002 Stanley Hauerwas “Why the American Way of Death is not the Christian Way”
2001 Megan McKenna “Parables: Visiting the Kingdom”
2000 Sidney Callahan “Tomorrow’s Church: New Roles for Men and Women”