On September 16, author and popular speaker, Dawn Eden, gave two talks on the campus of Hope College: "How Jesus’ Sacred Heart Healed My Memories" and "Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On"
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The Saint Benedict Forum was pleased to welcome our friend Dr. Eduardo Echeverria, Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary who spoke on the topic of "Pope Francis's Temptations: The Church in the Modern World" on Tuesday, September 29th, at Hope College in the Maas Conference Room (264 Columbia Ave). The event was co-sponsored by the Our Sunday Visitor Institute and the Religion Department.
The video of the talk will be available soon.
With Pope Francis's recent visit to the United States and Cuba, many have had an opportunity to learn more about this charismatic and yet humble pontiff. Nevertheless, the pope is often confusing to many groups of people. Many appreciate his concern for the environment, his clear opposition to the death penalty, and his devotion to the poor. Yet, he is also a persistent defender of the traditional family, the right to life at every stage, and religious liberty. Dr. Echeverria helped us understand what really animates Pope Francis and why he defies so many caricatures of the papacy and the Catholic Church.
On Wednesday, March 4th (50 years to the day of the release of The Sound of Music!), three nuns arrived on Hope’s campus. Little did we know what was coming...
"Mind-blowing." That is how one student described Brad Gregory's talk on "The Reformation Era and the Making of Modernity," delivered last Wednesday, October 15, 2015, as part of Grand Rapids Notre Dame Alumni Club Hesburgh Lecture, and co-sponsored by Aquinas College's Catholic Studies Program and the Saint Benedict Forum.
Video Now Available: ...this was not the speech of a man who is merely academically interested in literary analysis, but was that of someone who has personally experienced divine grace firsthand.
Fr. Damian Ference, a popular speaker and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Borromeo College Seminary in Cleveland, OH, preached to a packed chapel and led a Lenten retreat with adoration and confession.
