On January 25, Sr. Marianne Farina, CSC gave the Aquinas Lecture for the Catherine of Sienna Newman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. She discussed the virtue ethics of Thomas Aquinas and Muslim scholar Hamid Al-Ghazali. She addressed the way their teachings on the moral life can be a basis for substantive interfaith dialogue and finding common ground among Catholics and Muslims. Using the recent documents of the Catholic Church and its leaders, she also outlined the history of the Church’s commitment to interreligious dialogue.
Sr. Marianne Farina was also recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Inter-Religious Dialogue. This is a new journal that will be published by Union Theological Consortium in New York.
Our very own Fr. Michael Morris, O.P. has been invited to give talks in three different cities in three consecutive weeks starting in the middle of February. First, on February 19 he will be giving a talk titled “Reel Religion: One Hundred Years of the Bible in Film” at the Museum of the Bible and the Arts (MOBIA) in New York City. Then, he travels to Italy where he lectures on “The Woman Behind the Myth: Natacha Rambova’s Artistic Influence in the Creation of a Hollywood Icon” on February 24 as part of the International Symposium on Rudolph Valentino at the University of Turin. Finally, on March 7 at the International Symposium on the Inquisition in Art and Literature at the Angelicum in Rome, he will speak on “Monastic Spectres: The Image of the Evil Inquisitor in Art and Film.”
Last month, Fr. Albert Paretsky, O.P., Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies at DSPT, preached the annual retreat for the clergy of the Archdiocese of Seattle at the Palisades Archdiocesan Retreat Center. The retreat was entitled “Redeeming the Time” and was based on Pauline themes in honor of the year of St. Paul.
