Catholicism in Dialogue

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The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage holds a Catholicism in Dialogue event every fall. These panels are offered as platforms for ecumenical conversation and interaction.


Events

  • Annual Cardinal Bernardin Common Cause Event: Nostra Aetate

    May 12, 2025
    6:00–8:00 PM
    Regents Hall, Water Tower Campus

    Nostra Aetate, the 1965 Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions, was one of the most influential and celebrated documents issued by the Second Vatican Council. Highlighting deep spiritual and religious kinship, it made possible a renewed and positive relationship between Jews and Catholics. Please join the Hank Center as we welcome Cardinal Blase Cupich and Rabbi Noam Marans, Director of Interreligious Affairs for the American Jewish Community, to offer some reflections and join in dialog as we mark this important anniversary.

    This event is free and all are welcome.

  • Catholicism in Dialogue: Conversations on Racial Justice

    September 22, 2021, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
    We were pleased to host a discussion of racial justice issues in the major monotheistic religions- Judaism, Islam, Catholicism and Bahá’í. Free and open to the public.

  • Video Available | Faith and Secularization: A Dialogue

    October 1, 2020, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
    Featuring Jerome Baggett, Paul Lakeland, and Kaya Oakes. Free and open to the public.
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    Robert Alter: The Challenge of Translating the Bible

    Professor Alter is author of more than 20 books of criticism, translation, and commentary, most recently The Art of Bible Translation (2019). His complete translation of the Hebrew Bible, a work 24 years in the making, was published by W.W. Norton in 2018 and has been acclaimed as stylistically faithful to the Hebrew while inventively artful in English.
    Februrary 26, 2020, 4:00 PM
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  • Catholic Conversion Narratives in Modern Aesthetics

    In collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), the Hank Center was pleased to host this international and interdisciplinary conference exploring modern conversion narratives.

  • I Was a Stranger: Student Stories of Religious Hospitality

    In fall 2017 CCIH shifted the focus of its Catholicism in Dialogue event toward the contemporary challenge of living together in a multicultural and interfaith setting, and combines forces with Campus Ministry and the Department of Theology & Religious Studies to offer students a yearlong experience of hospitality through many events.

  • A Year of Mercy: The Abrahamic Faiths in the Year of Jubilee

    The Hank Center is proud to have sponsored the Catholicism in Dialogue series in fall 2016, responding to Pope Francis' call for action and dialogue during the "Extraordinary Jubilee" year. On September 29th, we reflected on the themes of mercy, forgiveness, and solidarity found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

  • The 2015 Catholicism in Dialogue Lecture: Islam and Inter-religious Dialogue with Fr. Tom Michel, SJ and Dr. Shahla Talebi

    In the fall of 2015, the Hank Center's Catholicism in Dialogue series brought two distinguished scholars in the filed of inter-religious studies to Loyola: Fr. Tom Michel, SJ and Dr. Shahla Talebi. Click here to read about an in depth discussion of the issues and questions surrounding inter-religious dialogue between Islam and Catholicism.

  • Catholicism in Dialogue Series Hinduism and Catholicism: Finding God in All Things

    Prof. Francis X. Clooney, S.J. (Harvard Divinity School) delivered the second annual Catholicism in Dialogue Series lecture during fall 2014. The lecture, titled 'Hinduism and Catholicism: Finding God in All Things,' brought two traditions—Hinduism and Catholicism—together through the lens of the saints and mystics of each tradition who find God in all things.

  • Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. (Fordham University)

    On Pilgrimage: Journeys with Judah Halevi, St. Ignatius Loyola, and Malcolm X Lecture by Rev. Patrick J. Ryan, S. J., Laurence J. McGinley, professor of Religion and Society, Fordham University.
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