Vatican II Conference this week at the John Paul II Institute

A number of Communio authors and editors will participate in the conference, “‘Keeping the World Awake to God’: The Challenge of Vatican II” at the John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America starting Thursday evening of this week (Jan. 12-14). Communio is a co-sponsor of the conference. For conference  and registration information please see the John Paul II Institute page.

Thursday, Jan. 12

 7:00 p.m.  Carl Anderson, Opening Remarks

7:15-8:30  Francis Cardinal George: The Significance of Vatican II

8:30 Reception

Friday, Jan. 13

9:00-10:30 a.m.  The Second Vatican Council and the Catholic Contribution to Metaphysics
D.C. Schindler
Adrian J. Walker

Moderator:  Michael Gorman

11:00-12:30  The Catholicity of the Council
Rev. Roch Kereszty, O.Cist.
Rev. Antonio López, F.S.C.B.

Moderator:  Chad Pecknold

12:30-2:00  Lunch

2:00-3:30  Holiness, World, and the Meaning of Work
Giorgio Buccellati
William Portier

Moderator:  Rodney Howsare

4:00-5:30 John Paul II’s Reading of Vatican II
Rev. Jaroslaw Kupczak, O.P.

Moderator:   David L. Schindler

Saturday, Jan. 14

9:00-10:30 a.m.  Religious Freedom and American Culture
David L. Schindler
Gerard Bradley

Moderator:  John Garvey

11:00-12:30  Family and the Identity of the Person

David Crawford
Nicholas Healy

Moderator:  Joseph Atkinson

12:30-2:00  Lunch

2:00-3:30  Vatican II, the Body, and Christian Universalism
Rev. José Granados, dcjm
Margaret McCarthy 

Moderator:  Rev. Paolo Prosperi, F.S.C.B.

4:00-5:30 God, the Church, and Scientific Intelligibility
Larry Chapp
Michael Hanby

Moderator:  Andrew Sodergren

See conference page for details.

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Keeping the World Awake to God: Conference on Vatican II in January 2012

Communio is pleased to announce a forthcoming conference on the campus of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, January 12-14, 2012. Sponsored by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute and co-sponsored by Communio, “‘Keeping the World Awake to God’: The Challenge of Vatican II” marks the 50th anniversary of the convocation of the Council. The program, participant list, and registration information may be found here.

Topics include “Vatican II and the Catholic Contribution to Metaphysics,” “The Catholicity of the Council,” “Holiness, World, and the Meaning of Work,” “Religious Freedom and American Culture,” “Family and the Identity of the Person,” and “God, the Church, and Scientific Intelligibility.”

Speakers include Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, Catholic University of America President John Garvey, Francis Cardinal George, Communio authors and editors David L. Schindler, Nicholas J. Healy Jr., D. C. Schindler, Adrian J. Walker, Giorgio Buccellati, Antonio Lopez, FSCB, Roch Kereszty, O. Cist., Margaret H. McCarthy, and others.

From the conference description:

The main purpose of the conference is thus to provide an authoritative grille de lecture for approaching the Council as a whole in its significance for the Tradition and in relation to the current “signs of the times.” The letter of the conciliar documents, taken as a whole, contains a hermeneutical center radiating outwards from the doctrine contained in Dei Verbum and Lumen Gentium and illuminating the Council’s teaching on mission, inter-religious dialogue, modernity, religious freedom, and the like. . . . (read the complete text).