Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Diocesan Marriage and Family Conference
The Fort Wayne-South Bend Annual Diocesan Marriage and Family conference will be held at McKenna Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame March 24. Presenters will include Bishop Kevin Rhoades, Fr. Bob Lengerich, and Fr. David Mary Engo, FFM. Through a combination of plenary sessions and workshops, this conference will explore the Church's rich vision of marriage and family life as it relates to topics such as the theology of the body, family prayer, the family and work, the family as the domestic church, raising teens and dealing with issues such as infertility, divorce and homosexuality. This conference is for adults of all ages and circumstances--married couples, couples preparing for marriage, single parents, college students, clergy, pastoral ministers and anyone else interested in enriching their understanding of the vocation of marriage and family life. To view the conference schedule and register, go to the Notre Dame Conference Center's website.
Friday, March 2, 2012
TODAY: The Cost of Conscience
Today, Friday, March 2 at 4 p.m. in McKenna Hall Auditorium, Prof. O. Carter Snead of the Notre Dame Law School will deliver the Clarke Lecture in medical ethics, entitled "The Cost of Conscience." Reception to follow.
Integritas Seminar VII
Last night the Integritas program held its seventh seminar of the year, on 'Virtue and the Good Life,' led by Prof. Brad Gregory of the History Department. The texts for the seminar included excerpts from the first book of Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, Wendell Berry's essay "Feminism, the Body and the Machine" and also his poem "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front."
Through these readings, we explored Aristotle's and Berry's shared conception that the good life for humankind is one that achieves happiness through pursuing the good, cultivating virtue, and living as fully integrated individuals, led by reason and respecting our physical limits. They also both believe individual good to be inseparable from the common good: since humans are social animals, the good life is to be understood as one in which an individual fulfills one's responsibilities to other community members and also benefits from their companionship.
Aristotle examines these ideas principally in the context of a city-state, but Berry sees the family economy as the fundamental context for developing virtue and attaining happiness. Berry identifies many ills of our industrial age, in which quantity and efficiency are the ultimate values and materialistic concerns have crowded out all other values. Work, food production, education, and even sex have become industrialized. As a consequence, marriage has become not the commitment to mutual care and help for the bringing up of healthy children, but rather a tenuous relationship that "has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided." Consumption, not self-sufficient production, characterizes industrial households, and very few choose to live in a radically different way that could truly call into question the values unconsciously adopted in our quest for convenience, consumption, and ease.
The students engaged in an extended conversation about the role of technology in all of this, fully aware that their lives especially have been inextricably intertwined with more technological gadgets than in any previous age. One student observed that Berry's attitude to technology is that it is to be considered "guilty until proven innocent" because of its tendency to make our work more unconscious, cerebral, and effortless, thus contributing to greater disembodiment and disintegration of ourselves as individuals.
Everyone liked Berry's poem and its command to "everyday, do something that won't compute," and its call to upend the materialistic values of our age. Like Aristotle, Berry recognizes that their is intrinsic value to the actions that our age dismisses as "whimsical," since the goal of life is not productivity or efficiency, but rather happiness.
Through these readings, we explored Aristotle's and Berry's shared conception that the good life for humankind is one that achieves happiness through pursuing the good, cultivating virtue, and living as fully integrated individuals, led by reason and respecting our physical limits. They also both believe individual good to be inseparable from the common good: since humans are social animals, the good life is to be understood as one in which an individual fulfills one's responsibilities to other community members and also benefits from their companionship.
Aristotle examines these ideas principally in the context of a city-state, but Berry sees the family economy as the fundamental context for developing virtue and attaining happiness. Berry identifies many ills of our industrial age, in which quantity and efficiency are the ultimate values and materialistic concerns have crowded out all other values. Work, food production, education, and even sex have become industrialized. As a consequence, marriage has become not the commitment to mutual care and help for the bringing up of healthy children, but rather a tenuous relationship that "has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided." Consumption, not self-sufficient production, characterizes industrial households, and very few choose to live in a radically different way that could truly call into question the values unconsciously adopted in our quest for convenience, consumption, and ease.
The students engaged in an extended conversation about the role of technology in all of this, fully aware that their lives especially have been inextricably intertwined with more technological gadgets than in any previous age. One student observed that Berry's attitude to technology is that it is to be considered "guilty until proven innocent" because of its tendency to make our work more unconscious, cerebral, and effortless, thus contributing to greater disembodiment and disintegration of ourselves as individuals.
Everyone liked Berry's poem and its command to "everyday, do something that won't compute," and its call to upend the materialistic values of our age. Like Aristotle, Berry recognizes that their is intrinsic value to the actions that our age dismisses as "whimsical," since the goal of life is not productivity or efficiency, but rather happiness.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Carter Snead to deliver Clarke Lecture
Next Friday, March 2 at 4 p.m. in McKenna Hall Auditorium, Prof. O. Carter Snead of the Notre Dame Law School, and incoming Director of the Center, will deliver the Philip & Doris Clarke Family Lecture as part of our Annual Medical Ethics Conference. His lecture is entitled "The Cost of Conscience." Please join us! Reception to follow.
Friday, February 17, 2012
St. Joseph County RTL hosts Dr. Alveda King
Next Tuesday, February 21, Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., will speak on the campus of IUSB. This event was planned in response to the November lecture by Betty Cockrum, president of Indiana Planned Parenthood. It is sponsored by the IUSB Right to Life Club and St. Joseph County Right to Life. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. King will speak at 7 p.m. in The Grille, which is the university’s student cafeteria located in the Administration Building. This is the large building that faces Mishawaka Avenue at the northwest corner of the campus. The cafeteria is at the south end of the building. Parking will be free in any campus parking lot. The nearest parking is in those lots that are off South Esther St.
We encourage all of our members to attend this important event—and please bring anyone you think might be interested in hearing Dr. King. We also encourage you to help spread the word through your churches and neighborhoods.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
TODAY: Truman and the Bomb public discussion
Today at 7:30 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium we will host a public discussion between Fr. Bill Miscamble, CSC (history), Prof. Michael Baxter (theology), and Prof. David Solomon (philosophy) moderated by Prof. Dan Philpott (political science) on "The Most Controversial Decision: Harry Truman and the Bomb." A reception will follow in the atrium, with Fr. Miscamble available to sign his recent book on the topic. Join us for a stimulating discussion!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Fall Conference papers posted
Friday, February 10, 2012
TODAY: Edith Stein Project
Today and tomorrow, catch the Edith Stein Project, "Encountering Vulnerability," in McKenna Hall, beginning at 1 p.m. on Friday and ending at 6 p.m. on Saturday. Lots of great talks are scheduled.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Integritas Seminar VI
Last night the Integritas program had its sixth seminar of the year, on restorative justice. Since we had discussed conflict on an international level the previous week, this week we re-examined our attitudes to violence and conflict on a local level. The readings on the criminal justice system and alternative restorative justice strategies addressed questions such as: What is the situation of prisoners in America? How does our commitment to Christ's mercy affect our approach to incarceration as a punishment? What should the Christian response to local violence be? What do the works of mercy demand of us in relation to offenders? How can we work for justice without sacrificing mercy?
Prof. Susan Sharpe from the Law School began the seminar by narrating a true story of an armed robbery, asking the students to note how their level of compassion for one of the perpetrators of the crime increased or decreased as they learned more details of the story. Afterwards, students discussed their reactions, which varied significantly. The discussion then moved to what the appropriate punishment for the crime would be, and how such a decision should be arbitrated. We had read that restorative justice begins with the questions of 'Who has been harmed by this crime?' and 'What needs arise from that harm?' whereas our adversarial criminal justice system begins from 'What law was broken?' and 'What is the penalty for such a breach?'. We found in the discussion that as much as we tried to think through the scenario within the framework of restorative justice, the debate would continually fall into the adversarial framework we have all been raised with. It is a challenge to think outside of the box.
We discussed restorative justice strategies such as bringing the victims and offenders together with a mediator to discern what reparation for the harm done would be appropriate, rather than cases going to trial before a traditional arbiter such as a judge. We also discussed alternatives to incarceration. The students were shocked to learn more about the state of the American prison system, particularly with its racial disparities. For example, as of the year 2000, 10% of all black American males were currently incarcerated. Everyone agreed that the prison system is deeply flawed, but incarceration is obviously still necessary for many crimes, and it is a challenge to try to make incarceration part of a restorative justice framework, with progress towards healing emphasized.
Students also identified limitations in the restorative justice model, such as cases in which one or both parties have no interest in participating in mediation sessions, or when the egregiousness of the crime threatens to turn the victim into an offender in seeking reparations, since there is a natural inclination to view justice as 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' One student also pointed out that in all of the restorative justice readings, while the focus was intended to be on the needs of the victim, the focus too often shifted to be solely on the needs of the offender. Both needs are important, but there would be no justice in restorative justice if it became preoccupied exclusively with how to act with mercy towards offenders, and not how to restore the victim to wholeness. We debated what limit cases for a restorative system there might be, and how a hybrid system might function, incorporating both elements of restorative justice and our traditional criminal justice system. It was a complex discussion, and one that caused everyone to re-examine their assumptions about both victims and offenders.
As a follow-up to the seminar, we look forward to playing some pick-up basketball with the residents of Dismas House, a residential prisoner re-entry program in South Bend, on campus in a couple of weeks.
Prof. Susan Sharpe from the Law School began the seminar by narrating a true story of an armed robbery, asking the students to note how their level of compassion for one of the perpetrators of the crime increased or decreased as they learned more details of the story. Afterwards, students discussed their reactions, which varied significantly. The discussion then moved to what the appropriate punishment for the crime would be, and how such a decision should be arbitrated. We had read that restorative justice begins with the questions of 'Who has been harmed by this crime?' and 'What needs arise from that harm?' whereas our adversarial criminal justice system begins from 'What law was broken?' and 'What is the penalty for such a breach?'. We found in the discussion that as much as we tried to think through the scenario within the framework of restorative justice, the debate would continually fall into the adversarial framework we have all been raised with. It is a challenge to think outside of the box.
We discussed restorative justice strategies such as bringing the victims and offenders together with a mediator to discern what reparation for the harm done would be appropriate, rather than cases going to trial before a traditional arbiter such as a judge. We also discussed alternatives to incarceration. The students were shocked to learn more about the state of the American prison system, particularly with its racial disparities. For example, as of the year 2000, 10% of all black American males were currently incarcerated. Everyone agreed that the prison system is deeply flawed, but incarceration is obviously still necessary for many crimes, and it is a challenge to try to make incarceration part of a restorative justice framework, with progress towards healing emphasized.
Students also identified limitations in the restorative justice model, such as cases in which one or both parties have no interest in participating in mediation sessions, or when the egregiousness of the crime threatens to turn the victim into an offender in seeking reparations, since there is a natural inclination to view justice as 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' One student also pointed out that in all of the restorative justice readings, while the focus was intended to be on the needs of the victim, the focus too often shifted to be solely on the needs of the offender. Both needs are important, but there would be no justice in restorative justice if it became preoccupied exclusively with how to act with mercy towards offenders, and not how to restore the victim to wholeness. We debated what limit cases for a restorative system there might be, and how a hybrid system might function, incorporating both elements of restorative justice and our traditional criminal justice system. It was a complex discussion, and one that caused everyone to re-examine their assumptions about both victims and offenders.
As a follow-up to the seminar, we look forward to playing some pick-up basketball with the residents of Dismas House, a residential prisoner re-entry program in South Bend, on campus in a couple of weeks.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Edith Stein Project Registration
Friday, February 10
12:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
Auditorium
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Auditorium Human Strength and Weakness: Edith Stein's Life at the Hand of the Lord
Sarah Borden Sharkey, Wheaton College
2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Invited Speakers
Auditorium The Biology of Theology of the Body
Vicki Thorn, Founder, Project Rachel
Room 101-104 Love Conquers Fear -- Or Does It Really? Fear, Vulnerability and the Christian Life
Fr. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Invited Speakers
Auditorium An Exchange of Gifts: Embracing Vulnerability & Celebrating Adoption
Elizabeth R. Kirk, Visiting Scholar, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame
Room 101-104 Marriage and the Book of Ruth
Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Room 112-114 Sheltering and Vulnerable--the Carmel of Edith Stein's Experience
Sr. Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame
5:15 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:15 p.m. Pizza Dinner
Atrium
7:00 p.m. Film Screening: The Human Experience by Grassroots Films
Auditorium
8:30 – 9:45 p.m. Dessert Reception
Atrium
Saturday, February 11
*Please note that Holy Mass will be offered in the Alumni Hall Chapel at 8am Saturday morning.
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Submitted Papers
Auditorium Session 1: Edith Stein Instructs: Vulnerability, Care, and Trust in Successful, God-Centered Marriages
Pamela Fitzpatrick, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Core of Personhood: Vulnerability, Responsibility, Individuality
Philip Harold, Robert Morris University
Room 101-104 Session 2: The Blessed Wound: A Consideration of the Posture of Vulnerability Before Beauty
Daniel Clarke, John Lane, and Garret Ahlers, University of St. Thomas
Room 112-114 Session 3: To Hold, Care, Challenge and Affirm: Entering into Vulnerability and Imaging God’s Love for Victims of Violence
Lorraine Cuddeback, University of Notre Dame
“Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence” and the Gift of Friendship with the Disabled
Esther Terry, University of Notre Dame
Room 202 Session 4: Vulnerability and Mary’s Fiat in Edith Stein
Jacob Torbeck, Aquinas Institute of Theology
Self-Forgetfulness: The Little Way to Love and the Path to Vulnerability
Benjamin Rusch, University of Notre Dame
Room 200 Session 5: A Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Embarking with Hope, Praying with Courage, Leaving with Trust
Mary Regina Slonkosky, Holy Cross College
The Role of Vulnerability in the Life of Brother André
Andrew Polaniecki, Holy Cross College
10:15-11:15 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Give Us This Day, Our Daily Bread: Real Healing and Hope in the Struggle with Eating Disorders
Caroline Murphy Lashutka, Alumnus, University of Notre Dame
Room 101-104 “I Will Boast in My Weakness”: St. Paul and the Discovery of Christian Glory
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P., University of Notre Dame
Room 112-114 Hyper-Vulnerability and Hypo-Vulnerability: Disordered Female Orientations, Empathetic Friendship, and Jane Austen’s Heroines
Kelly Henson, St. Thomas More Academy
11:30 -12:30 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Women, Sexual Asymmetry and Catholic Teaching: How the Church Beats Secular Feminists at their Own Game
Erika Bachiochi, Author, Women, Sex, and the Church
Room 101-104 Masculinity and Vulnerability
David O’Connor, University of Notre Dame
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break (a meal will be provided in a nearby residence hall, TBA)
1:15-1:45 Dialogue composed by Edith Stein
Auditorium Performed by students of Sr. Ann Astell
2:00-3:00 Invited Speakers
Auditorium The New Sexual Revolution
Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online
Room 101-104 Girard, GaGa, and Ghandhi: Redefining Sexual Violence and Transforming Vulnerability
Amelia Ruggaber, Alumnus, University of Notre Dame
3:15-4:15 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Using the Relationship Attachment Model to Build Secure Relationships
John Van Epp, Author, How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk
Room 101-104 Consumed by Mercy: Mary Magdalene and the Christian Witness
Fr. Nathan Cromly, CSJ, Congregation of St. John
4:30-5:30 Invited Speakers
Auditorium How to Have “Safe” Sex
Anamaria Scaperlanda-Ruiz, Co-founder, Edith Stein Project
Room 101-104 Women and Public Policy
Emily Matich, Director of Operations, World Youth Alliance North America
Room 112-114 Beauty and Vulnerability
Ashley Crouch, Director of Outreach and Programs, Love and Fidelity Network
6:00 Closing Banquet
Lower Level
12:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks
Auditorium
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Auditorium Human Strength and Weakness: Edith Stein's Life at the Hand of the Lord
Sarah Borden Sharkey, Wheaton College
2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Invited Speakers
Auditorium The Biology of Theology of the Body
Vicki Thorn, Founder, Project Rachel
Room 101-104 Love Conquers Fear -- Or Does It Really? Fear, Vulnerability and the Christian Life
Fr. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C., University of Notre Dame
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Invited Speakers
Auditorium An Exchange of Gifts: Embracing Vulnerability & Celebrating Adoption
Elizabeth R. Kirk, Visiting Scholar, Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame
Room 101-104 Marriage and the Book of Ruth
Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame
Room 112-114 Sheltering and Vulnerable--the Carmel of Edith Stein's Experience
Sr. Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame
5:15 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
6:15 p.m. Pizza Dinner
Atrium
7:00 p.m. Film Screening: The Human Experience by Grassroots Films
Auditorium
8:30 – 9:45 p.m. Dessert Reception
Atrium
Saturday, February 11
*Please note that Holy Mass will be offered in the Alumni Hall Chapel at 8am Saturday morning.
9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Submitted Papers
Auditorium Session 1: Edith Stein Instructs: Vulnerability, Care, and Trust in Successful, God-Centered Marriages
Pamela Fitzpatrick, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Core of Personhood: Vulnerability, Responsibility, Individuality
Philip Harold, Robert Morris University
Room 101-104 Session 2: The Blessed Wound: A Consideration of the Posture of Vulnerability Before Beauty
Daniel Clarke, John Lane, and Garret Ahlers, University of St. Thomas
Room 112-114 Session 3: To Hold, Care, Challenge and Affirm: Entering into Vulnerability and Imaging God’s Love for Victims of Violence
Lorraine Cuddeback, University of Notre Dame
“Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence” and the Gift of Friendship with the Disabled
Esther Terry, University of Notre Dame
Room 202 Session 4: Vulnerability and Mary’s Fiat in Edith Stein
Jacob Torbeck, Aquinas Institute of Theology
Self-Forgetfulness: The Little Way to Love and the Path to Vulnerability
Benjamin Rusch, University of Notre Dame
Room 200 Session 5: A Pilgrimage to Lourdes: Embarking with Hope, Praying with Courage, Leaving with Trust
Mary Regina Slonkosky, Holy Cross College
The Role of Vulnerability in the Life of Brother André
Andrew Polaniecki, Holy Cross College
10:15-11:15 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Give Us This Day, Our Daily Bread: Real Healing and Hope in the Struggle with Eating Disorders
Caroline Murphy Lashutka, Alumnus, University of Notre Dame
Room 101-104 “I Will Boast in My Weakness”: St. Paul and the Discovery of Christian Glory
Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P., University of Notre Dame
Room 112-114 Hyper-Vulnerability and Hypo-Vulnerability: Disordered Female Orientations, Empathetic Friendship, and Jane Austen’s Heroines
Kelly Henson, St. Thomas More Academy
11:30 -12:30 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Women, Sexual Asymmetry and Catholic Teaching: How the Church Beats Secular Feminists at their Own Game
Erika Bachiochi, Author, Women, Sex, and the Church
Room 101-104 Masculinity and Vulnerability
David O’Connor, University of Notre Dame
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break (a meal will be provided in a nearby residence hall, TBA)
1:15-1:45 Dialogue composed by Edith Stein
Auditorium Performed by students of Sr. Ann Astell
2:00-3:00 Invited Speakers
Auditorium The New Sexual Revolution
Kathryn Lopez, National Review Online
Room 101-104 Girard, GaGa, and Ghandhi: Redefining Sexual Violence and Transforming Vulnerability
Amelia Ruggaber, Alumnus, University of Notre Dame
3:15-4:15 Invited Speakers
Auditorium Using the Relationship Attachment Model to Build Secure Relationships
John Van Epp, Author, How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk
Room 101-104 Consumed by Mercy: Mary Magdalene and the Christian Witness
Fr. Nathan Cromly, CSJ, Congregation of St. John
4:30-5:30 Invited Speakers
Auditorium How to Have “Safe” Sex
Anamaria Scaperlanda-Ruiz, Co-founder, Edith Stein Project
Room 101-104 Women and Public Policy
Emily Matich, Director of Operations, World Youth Alliance North America
Room 112-114 Beauty and Vulnerability
Ashley Crouch, Director of Outreach and Programs, Love and Fidelity Network
6:00 Closing Banquet
Lower Level
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