"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.

Dr. Jared Ortiz, co-founder and director of the Saint Benedict Forum, recently spoke about the Saint Benedict Forum and what it means to be Catholic at Hope College on Holy Family Radio's Faith & Reason show with Dr. John Pinheiro.

The first Catholic-themed immersion trip at Hope College was an initiative of the Saint Benedict Forum and was generously co-sponsored by Hope College's Campus Ministries and Union of Catholic Students as well as Holland, Michigan's St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church. The theme of the trip was poverty, religious life, and social justice in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood. The group lived with and worked alongside the Franciscans of the Eucharist who run the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels.