International Preacher Next William H. Shannon Lecturer, February 11 & 12
International preacher, writer, and speaker, Timothy Radcliffe, will present Keeping Hope in the Desert: What Our Brothers and Sisters in Iraq Can Teach Us on Thursday, February 11th, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Forum of the Otto A. Shults Community Center. Radcliffe will also present Is Mercy about Forgetting? on Friday, February 12th 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.
Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., is the director of the Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars Hall at University of Oxford, an organization dedicated to promoting social justice and human rights. Radcliffe has also worked as a university chaplain in London, taught theology at Oxford, and served as a global master of his religious Community, the Order of the Preachers. Pope Francis appointed Radcliffe as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice, which works with various international organizations and ecumenical religious groups in carrying out its mission.
Radcliffe’s internationally recognized work includes What Is the Point of Being a Christian? (2005), for which he won the 2007 Michael Ramsey Prize, awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the “most promising contemporary theological writing from the global Church.” Among his other most recent books are I Call You Friends (2013) and Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharist (2008).
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.
The 2015-16 William H. Shannon Lecture Series aims to capture the true definition of ‘mercy;’ inspired by the words, actions and writings of Pope Francis, who fittingly has proclaimed a year-long jubilee of Mercy to begin in December 2015. These speakers will reflect on the context of this term in their work and daily lives. Our lecturers do not shy away from difficult questions and issues; rather, they confront the problems and challenges before us with integrity, courage, and mercy, inviting us to do the same.
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