Events

Theology Events 

Fr. Peter Stravinskas - November 5, 2025

"Newman on the Lituragy" - 4:30-5:30 SB Hall Serafy

 "Can AI Alleviate Poverty?" - March 4, 2026

Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.
4:30-6:00 pm - SB Hall Serafy Room  

Landregan Lecture – March 5, 2026
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.

March 5, 2026 * 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM 
SBHall Multipurpose Room

“Intellectual Sources of American Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century” October 21, 2025  
A talk and Q&A with Dr. Paul Gutacker, Baylor University. Author of The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past (Oxford, 2023) 

John Paul II Lecture - September 18, 2025
Speaker:  Fr. Thomas J. White, O.P. - "Aquinas on the Mystery of Trinitarian Indwelling"

Landregan Lectures- March 13, 2025
Speaker: Brant Pitre - Did the Historical Jesus Know that He was God? 

Pater Edmund Waldstein - September 23 & 25, 2024
The Theology Department hosted Pater Edmund Waldstein, OCist, monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz, for a presentation on human dignity. The presentation will investigate traditional Catholic teaching on the "two powers," spiritual and temporal, and demonstrate how an understanding of this teaching can inform a proper understanding of human dignity.   Fr. Edmund’s website: https://thejosias.com/author/sancrucensis/

John Paul II Lecture - September 20, 2024   
The Department of Theology invited Donald Prudlo, PhD, William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, to deliver this year's John Paul II Lecture. Prudlo's presentation was titled "Where Would Thomas Aquinas Live in Middle-Earth?"