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December 2009

 

Lessons and Carols :

A Festival in Word and Song

to Prepare for Christmas

Friday, December 4th, at 7:30pm

Sunday December 6th, at 2pm

Founders Chapel, USD campus

Free and open to the public.

 

 

 

 

Click here to view last year's celebration.

Please scroll down once on the linked page.

 

 

January 2010

 

Faculty Travel Immersion Seminar: Sustainability, Eco-Theology, and Justice

The Dominican Republic

Jame Schaefer, Ph.D.

Saturday, January 2, 2010 through Friday, January 8, 2010

The seminar will begin and end in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with two nights and three days in and near El Cercado in the province of San Juan de la Maguana. There, participants will visit sites of environmental projects in which the local Catholic church is taking the lead. Seminar director Jame Schaefer, Ph.D., of Marquette University, will lead participants to consider the resources offered by Catholic Christianity pertaining to environmental and eco-justice issues. Please see Faculty Travel Seminars for more information.

Please click here for Prof. Schaefer's webpage.

 

 

February 2010

 

Integrating Catholic Social Teaching into the Curriculum

The Centers for Educational Excellence and Catholic Thought and Culture are co-sponsoring a workshop presented by Barbara Wall, Ph.D. on Catholic Social Teaching on Saturday Feb, 20, 2010, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m, in Maher 253. Please visit Faculty Opportunities and Application Form for information specfic to faculty who wish to participate.

Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is a rich treasure of wisdom, rooted in the biblical call to justice, concerned with building a just society. In its broadest sense, this teaching includes the ideas and contributions of social scientists, social activists, unionists, theologians and academics of all disciplines who have considered how society can be structured to protect the rights and dignity of every person, especially the poor, to eradicate poverty, eliminate war and promote the common good. In a more restricted sense, CST refers to a body of literature written by the Church in the modern era through which it attempts to gather the variety of reflections into a systematic response to contemporary political, economic and social issues. CST is addressed to all people of good will who are committed to a just world.

Barbara Wall, Ph.D., special assistant to the President for Mission, is associate professor of Philosophy and Director of the Office for Mission Effectiveness at Villanova University. She is the founder and co-editor of the Journal for Catholic Social Thought and has been conducting workshops on CST for over twenty years. In Feb. 2010, Dr. Wall returns to USD, to conduct a workshop for 12 faculty members interested in incorporating some aspect of CST into one or more of their courses. Dr. Wall will provide each participant with pertinent bibliography and strategies for integrating CST into specific disciplines.

 

 

March 2010

Post-Seminar Public Forum on Sustainability, Eco-Theology, and Justice

end of March, 2010, dates TBD

Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, room TBD

Faculty members who participated in the January 2010 travel immersion seminar on Sustainability, Eco-Theology and Justice in the Dominican Republic will pesent papers generated by the seminar experience.