Vita Institute covered by NRO

Kathryn Lopez contributed an article to National Review Online on Project Guadalupe's recently concluded inaugural Vita Institute, sponsored by the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life and run under the auspices of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. An excerpt:

"When you think of the pro-life movement in America today, don’t think of a protest placard or a presidential debate. Think of Project Guadalupe. Sending forth and renewing. Transfixed on the transformational, to renew the face of the earth. The face of the pro-life movement is a mother with child. And when you truly think of it this way, and look to meet her and all her challenges and pain and gifts and loves, that changes everything."

Read her full article here.

Bill McGurn's lecture, "Love Conquers All"

The full text of Bill McGurn's recent public lecture for the Vita Institute, sponsored by the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life, is now available for those who could not attend. Entitled "Love Conquers All: Abortion and the Heart of America," he outlines the only kind of persuasion that can be both genuine and useful in defending life from the moment of conception to natural death. Click here for the lecture.

Baylor Symposium: Educating for Wisdom

We aren't the only Center to have a looming July 15 deadline for fall conference abstracts! Baylor's fall symposium, "Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century University," October 27-29, is seeking abstracts until July 15.

Featured speakers include: Walter Brueggemann (Columbia Theological Seminary); Celia Deane-Drummond (University of Notre Dame); Andrew Delbanco (Columbia University); John Haldane (University of St Andrews); Anthony Kronman (Yale Law School); and Candace Vogler (University of Chicago).

Judge Ken Starr (president of Baylor University) will join Philip Ryken (president of Wheaton College) and Robert Spitzer, S.J. (former president of Gonzaga University) for a special panel on "Educating for Wisdom in Christian Universities." Another featured panel on "Educating for Wisdom Across the Curriculum" will include Carter Aikin (Hastings College), Anne Carson Daly (Belmont Abbey College), and Shirley Roels (Calvin College).

Proposals for individual papers, panel discussions, and responses to current books are due by July 15. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.baylor.edu/ifl/bsfc2011.

It should be an excellent conference!

TODAY: Willke Public Lecture

Tonight Friday, June 17 at 7 p.m., in Geddes Hall Auditorium
Dr. Jack and Mrs. Barbara Willke, Current President of Life Issues Institute and Former President of National Right to Life Committee; and Former President of Cincinnati Right to Life, respectively present the public lecture "The History of the Pro-Life Movement" sponsored by the Vita Institute, the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life, and the Center for Ethics and Culture.

TODAY: Bill McGurn lecture, 7:30 p.m., Geddes Hall

The Notre Dame Vita Institute, a new, intensive two-week educational initiative of the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life, hosted under the auspices of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, will host a public lecture by Bill McGurn, Vice-President of NewsCorp and Wall Street Journal Columnist tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Geddes Hall Auditorium. His lecture is entitled "Love Conquers All: Abortion and the Heart of America." Please join us!

TODAY: Public Lecture on Adoption

As part of the Vita Institute, a new two-week intensive summer academic program hosted by the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life under the auspices of the Center for Ethics and Culture, there will be a public lecture today entitled "An Exchange of Gifts: Celebrating Adoption in the Culture of Life" delivered by Elizabeth Kirk, Research Associate, Center for Ethics and Culture and Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life Steering Committee Member. It will be held in Geddes Hall at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium tonight.