Please join us for the 15th Annual Landregan Lecture featuring Dr. Miguel H. Diaz, Former Ambassador to the Holy See. Dr. Diaz will be speaking on the topic: "Hearer of the World: The Search for God, Diplomacy, and the Common Good." The event, which will be held Saturday, December 7, 2013 at 7:30 pm in Lynch Auditorium, is open to the public and is free of charge.
Miguel Humberto Daz is an American theologian, university professor, diplomat and commentator who served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 8/2009 - 11/2012. He received his B.A. from St. Thomas University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Diaz is currently the University Professor of Faith and Culture, at the University of Dayton, Ohio.
The Landregan Lecture brings to the University of Dallas campus nationally prominent figures, whose area of expertise reflects the many interests that have animated University of Dallas alumnus Steven T. Landregan throughout his long, distinguished, and continuing career of service to the Catholic Church in North Texas.
At the beginning of the lecture, the University of Dallas School of Ministry will honor their 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award winners for their exemplary service to the local church in general, the work of faith formation in particular, and the larger community, especially the poor and needy.
Find out more about the lecture at: udallas.edu/landregan.
On Feb. 25 and 26, seven UD students traveled to Austin with Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Enrollment Michael Probus, BA '12 MBA '15, to advocate for continuing and/or increasing Tuition Equalization Grant (TEG) money.
+ Read MoreMike Kiegerl's youngest daughter, Christine, would have graduated from UD in the Class of 1994, but just before her graduation, she was struck by an impaired truck driver and died instantly. Kiegerl and his wife, Peggy, established the Christine S. Kiegerl Memorial Scholarship in their girl's memory in 1997.
+ Read MoreUD students not only read St. Augustine's "Confessions" in Rome, traveling to Ostia to marvel at the place in which, according to Book IX, St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had a joint mystical vision of God — they also travel 4.4 miles from the Irving campus to read the text with residents of South Irving.
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