All Events: February 2025

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.

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.

What does Catholic "just war" theory teach about the conflict in Israel-Palestine? Do concepts in Catholic social teaching, such as "integral human development" or the "preferential option for the poor," provide any guidance?  In what ways might the Church's historic relationship with the Jewish people…

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…