Nazareth Welcomes Richard Gaillardetz as the Next Shannon Lecturer
Prominent theologian, author, and lecturer, Richard Gaillardetz, will present The Sense of the Faithful: Recovering a Forgotten Teaching of Vatican II on Thursday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Forum of the Otto A. Shults Center. Gaillardetz will also present Authority in the Church Today: Challenges and Questions on Friday, April 17 at 1:30 p.m. in the Linehan Chapel of the Golisano Academic Center. Both lectures are free and open to the public. Nazareth College is located at 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, N.Y., 14618. For further information, please contact Christine M. Bochen at (585) 389-2728 or at cbochen4@naz.edu.
Gaillardetz is the Joseph professor of Catholic Systematic Theology and director of graduate studies at Boston College. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, he taught at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Theology in Houston and was the Thomas and Margaret Murray and James C. Bacik professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo.
The titles of his most recent books—When the Magisterium Intervenes: The Magisterium and Theologians in Today’s Church (2012); Keys to the Council: Unlocking the Teaching of Vatican II (2012), co-authored with Catherine Clifford; and Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (2008) —as well as the topics of his many scholarly and popular articles point to his concern about the issues and challenges facing the Catholic Church today, from authority to discipleship to pastoral leadership to globalization. A frequent speaker at local, national, and international academic and pastoral conferences, Gaillardetz is as comfortable speaking to colleagues at the Catholic Theological Society of America, of which he is the immediate past president, as he is to people in the pews and those who minister to them.
The Shannon Lecture Series honors William H. Shannon, former professor of religious at Nazareth College. Father Shannon advanced the educational mission of Nazareth College and contributed significantly to Catholic intellectual life, both nationally and internationally. This school year, the Lecture Series aim to answer the question posed by Father Shannon in his last book, “How can we get the voice of God’s people heard in the Church?”
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Julie Long: 585-389-2456 or jlong2@naz.edu
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