The Zahm Retreat is an annual gathering of Notre Dame faculty and administrators from multiple disciplines and diverse religious and ideological perspectives who are deeply committed to living out the mission of the University in the classroom and in their field of research. This year, during the fifth anniversary of the Zahm Retreat, participants will explore the question: How can Notre Dame’s mission be shaped by the global nature of the Church?
Location:Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn and Livestream
Climate change and environmental devastation have an outsize impact on communities in the Global South, but many of these communities are also at the forefront of developing strategies for resilience. Join us for a conversation with Church leaders on how the Anthropocene epoch changes the way we think about justice, the planet, the Church, and what we owe one another.
Featuring:
Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J.Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Huancayo, Peru
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah TurksonChancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
In conversation with:
Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.President, University of Notre Dame
Location:Smith Ballroom, Morris Inn and Livestream
Climate change and environmental devastation have an outsize impact on communities in the Global South, but many of these communities are also at the forefront of developing strategies for resilience. Join us for a conversation with Church leaders on how the Anthropocene epoch changes the way we think about justice, the planet, the Church, and what we owe one another.
Featuring:
Cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno, S.J.Metropolitan Archbishop Emeritus of Huancayo, Peru
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah TurksonChancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences
In conversation with:
Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C.President, University of Notre Dame
In this panel, female leaders Dr. Kate Callaghan, Erin Lynch, and Dr. Mary O’Callaghan will explore the many nuances of what it truly means to support women and children and attain true reproductive justice.
In this first roundtable in the series "Dialogues between Eastern Philosophy and Western Traditions," participants will discuss the topic of "The Good Life with Responsibility and Freedom."
Speakers:
Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Harvard University
Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy; Director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, University of Notre Dame
The 2025 Catholic Social Tradition conference will remember the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) and Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom). Released on the final day of Vatican II, these texts together invited serious consideration of the role of the church and other religious communities in relation to the state.
The 2025 Catholic Social Tradition conference will remember the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) and Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom). Released on the final day of Vatican II, these texts together invited serious consideration of the role of the church and other religious communities in relation to the state.
The 2025 Catholic Social Tradition conference will remember the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) and Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom). Released on the final day of Vatican II, these texts together invited serious consideration of the role of the church and other religious communities in relation to the state.
On Purpose is a program of immersive experiences that create space for students to engage in spiritual reflection and intellectual engagement that expands their moral imagination.
Over Spring Break 2025, students will travel to learn and collaborate with partners who demonstrate profound commitments to human dignity in the face of serious challenges, demonstrating tangible love and care toward those on the social margins. These organizations are living examples of how best to wrestle with the question, "What do we owe each other?"
In this lecture, Professor Francis Russell Hittinger will examine how Catholic social teaching is not only an articulate defense of the dignity of the human person but perhaps more fundamentally an elucidation of the dignity of society. The remarks will draw upon Hittinger's recent book, On the Dignity of Society (The Catholic University of America Press).
Join the Institute for Social Concerns on Friday afternoons for Encounter: lectures by distinguished scholars in the field of Catholic social teaching, who will share their insights and provide critical…
In this inaugural Charles E. Rice Chair lecture, O. Carter Snead, the Charles E. Rice Professor of Law, will explore how presuppositions about human identity and flourishing affect the governance of science, medicine, and biotechnology. He will make the case that the American law of public bioethics often fails to extend its full protections to the weakest and most vulnerable (such as children, the elderly, and the disabled) precisely because it operates from an incomplete and inadequate “anthropology” that fails to account for the inexorable reality of human embodiment.
Rev. Msgr. Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo is the Undersecretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He will join the Keough School of Global Affairs during the Nanovic Institute for European Studies' Keeley Vatican Lecture, the latest in this series that seeks to connect the University of Notre Dame with the Vatican.
Honoring the legacy of legendary Notre Dame President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Fr. TED Talks is a two-night festival on Notre Dame’s campus featuring short keynote talks from every corner of the Notre Dame community as we gather to consider all of the ways the pillars of Catholic social tradition animate our lives together.
Honoring the legacy of legendary Notre Dame President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Fr. TED Talks is a two-night festival on Notre Dame’s campus featuring short keynote talks from every corner of the Notre Dame community as we gather to consider all of the ways the pillars of Catholic social tradition animate our lives together.
Please join the Alliance for Catholic Education as they welcome Sr. Draru Mary Cecilia, Executive Director of the African Sisters Education Collaborative, and 2024 winner of the Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education.
The Tocqueville Fellows and students in Constitutional Studies will welcome to breakfast His Eminence, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Cardinal-Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Students will have a chance to dialogue with a major leader in the Church on significant questions at the nexus of the spiritual and the political, including how to navigate our call to serve the Church as faithful Catholics while also operating as engaged citizens active in local and national politics.
Location:McKenna Conference Center, Room 205/206/207, University of Notre Dame
In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis “urgently appeals” for a “new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet.” We, the Notre Dame Minor in Sustainability and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, invite you to enter into that dialogue by forming a team from your campus organization or local parish to participate in the two-part workshop, The Pathway to Ecological Citizenship and Spirituality, organized by the Catholic Climate Covenant and the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests.
In his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis “urgently appeals” for a “new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet.” The Notre Dame Minor in Sustainability and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, invite you to enter into that dialogue by forming a team from your campus organization or local parish to participate in the two-part workshop, The Pathway to Ecological Citizenship and Spirituality, organized by the Catholic Climate Covenant and the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests.
