On Oct. 11, 50 years to the day of the opening session of the Second Vatican Council,
the Department of Theology and the School of Ministry will present the first of two
events held in honor of Vatican II. Mark Goodwin, chair of theology and interim dean
of the School of Ministry (SOM), will moderate an opening discussion with Abbot Denis
Farkasfalvy, O. Cist. (pictured at right), who is a current member of the Pontifical
Biblical Commission, and Fr. Roch Kereszty, O.Cist (pictured at left).
Fr. Kereszty and Fr. Farkasfalvy were young priests in Rome at the time and were able to attend the first session of the Second Vatican Council. Both will speak from their deep experience and memory of the conciliar times about the need for the Council and what the Council was meant to accomplish. Opened under Pope John XXIII and concluded five years later under Pope Paul VI, Vatican II sought to recover and renew the foundational sources of Catholic tradition in a variety of areas, including liturgy, revelation and the Church.
Then, on Thursday, Oct. 18, three UD theological thinkersMsgr. Michael Olson, rector of Holy Trinity Seminary, Marti Jewell, assistant professor of theology in the SOM, and Ron Rombs, associate professor of theologywill explore the on-going significance of the Council as part of a panel discussion moderated by John Norris, associate professor of theology. Both events will be held in the Art History Auditorium from 7-8:30 p.m.
"You bring me a letter of acceptance to a Catholic school for your child, and I promise your child will attend Catholic school." This is the promise Father Mark Hamlet, BA '68 MBA '70, makes to his congregation at every Mass. The pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Austin, Hamlet has spent much of his ministry advocating for Catholic school education through his nonprofit foundation, Our Kids at Heart.
+ Read MoreThis past summer, Yeabkal Wubshit, BA '20, earned the internship that every computer science major dreams of: a position at Google -- and spent the summer working on infrastructures for Google Service Accounts at Google's office in Sunnyvale, California.
+ Read MoreThe University of Dallas will celebrate the extraordinary achievements of four alumni with its 2019 Distinguished Alumni Awards. Award recipients Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, MTS '00, Laura Felis Quinn, BS '86 MBA '18, Judy Kelly, BA '63, and John Parker, BA '83 MBA '89, will be honored for their contributions to their professions, communities and the University of Dallas.
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