Najeeba Syeed, Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld, and Sister Raffaella Petrini

• Nazareth Interfaith Centennial Summit

Alan Pascuzzi

• A Branch that will Bear Fruit: The Cultivation of the Individual, the Beauty, and the Significance of the Nazareth Experience

Jean Bellini & Patricia Schoelles

• My Journey, From Foundations to Future, Legacy Pinning Ceremony

Under the banner of “Learning to Live, Together, in Love,” the Fall 2024 Summit (September 20-21, 2024) focused on Nazareth’s mission that is informed by the charism of the Sisters of St. Joseph: to serve the neighbor without distinction. From its beginning in 1924, Nazareth has been committed to education and action — a legacy that is alive today through dynamic curricula and programs designed to respond to the needs of today. Presentations by artist Alan Pascuzzi, Sister Jean Bellini, and Sister Patricia Schoelles offered insights into how their liberal learning experience at Naz became the underpinning and incentive for their courageous, gutsy, and vigorous response to the challenges facing them. The witness of their lives offers significant testimony to how Nazareth’s mission continues today in profound and unique expressions.

Leo Guardado

• Church as Sanctuary: Healing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacement

Robert Wicks

• The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: Strengthening Your Inner Life in Challenging Times

Sophfronia Scott

• Keep It Light, Keep It Moving: Riding a Wave of Joy to the Bright Shores of Change

Sr. Lucy Kurien

• Walking Joyfully to Justice Together: The Story of the “Mother’s Home” Ashram, India

Dr. Christopher Pramuk

• The Birthing of Hope in a Darkening Time: Reimagining Together What is Possible

Dr. Paul Wadell

• Living Vocationally — Embracing An Itinerary of Hope

Dr. Kim R. Harris 

• Songs, Faith, and Freedom

Daniel Horan

• Pope Francis, Thomas Merton, and the Spirituality of Anti-Racism
  

Marie Dennis

• Earth Community: A New Story about Nonviolence (lecture)
• Showing Up is the First Step: A Teach-In for Peacebuilding and Social Justice (student workshop)

Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J.

• Kairos: An Ignatian Way of Listening, Acting and Healing Together

Olga Marina Segura

• On Whiteness, Power, and Faith: The Struggle to Survive in a White Catholic Church

David Karp

• Becoming a Restorative Campus: How Restorative Justice Can Build Community and Address Harm
• A Restorative Justice Approach to Addressing Harms in Our Community

Julie Hanlon Rubio 

• The Search for Common Ground, Community & Belonging in a Polarized World

FALL 2020

Emily Reimer-Barry

• Being Catholic, Being Anti-Racist
• Solidarity in a Broken World: From Reflection to Action

Teresa Delgado

• Puerto Rico & Charlottesville: White Supremacy & the Task of Decolonial Theology
• How to be a Community of Solidarity in the Face of White Supremacy
• Send Them Back? Puerto Rico, Chartottesville, and the Task of Decolonial Theology

Reggie Harris & Greg Greenway

• Deeper than the Skin: A Musical Presentation on Race

James Martin, S.J.

• Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church Can Show Welcome & Respect to the LGBTQ+ Community

Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M.

• Extending the Borders of Our Care: Why Interreligious Engagement Is an Ethical Imperative for Christians
• Our Ancestors Would Be Incredulous: Jews and Christians in Our Time

Ruben L.F. Habito

• Buddhist Wisdom and Christian Truth: Expanding Horizons of Catholic Faith and Understanding
• Can One Be Both Christian and Buddhist?

Rita George-Tvrtković, Ph.D.

• The Virgin Mary: Bridge or Barrier between Catholics and Muslims
• What Muslims Can Teach Catholics about Christianity

Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

• Hinduism as a Catholic—Finding God in Small Things
• Learning Interreligiously

Bishop Robert W. McElroy

• Nationalism vs. the Catholic Vision of the Common Good
• Uniting Our Fractured Society

Lisa Fullam

• Practicing Doubt in the Pursuit of Truth
• Sex and Human Flourishing: The Witness of LGBTQ Catholics

Guy Consolmagno, S.J.

• Why Do We Look to the Heavens?
• What Does "Catholic" Science Look Like?

Maureen O'Connell

• From the Upper Room to Pentecost: Toward an Ethic of Racial Mercy
• Painting across the Color-line: Community Muralism and Social Justice

Norma S. Pimental, M.J.

• The Human Face of Migration: Learning Mercy at the Border
• Nurturing a Culture of Caring

Robert Ellsberg

• A Revolution of the Heart: From Dorothy Day to Pope Francis
• Saints and Prophets: Models for Today

Gregory J. Boyle, S.J.

• Save the World . . . or Savor It? Being Reached by the Widow, Orphan, and Stranger
• Tattoos on the Heart: A Conversation with Fr. Gregory Boyle, S.J.

Christiana Z. Peppard

• Contemplation and Ecological Action: Tenderness and Justice in Laudato Si'
• Fresh Water Is a Human Right

John Dear

• Disarming the Heart, Disarming the World: The Peacemaker’s Work Today
• Peace Be With You: Practicing Nonviolence in a World of Violence and War

Tina Beattie

• Mothering and Mercy: A Theological Reflection on Marian Art and Pope Francis's Theology 
• Bringing Women’s Gifts to the Table

Timothy Radcliffe, O.P.

• Keeping Hope in the Desert: What Our Brothers and Sisters in Iraq Can Teach Us
• Is Mercy about Forgetting?

Emmanuel Katongole

• Reconciling Tenderness: On Learning Mercy from God
• Planting Tenderness: Laudato Si and the Bethany Land Institute in Uganda

Thomas Reese, S.J.

• Pope Francis and the Challenge of Reforming the Church
• Listening to the Laity: Pope Francis and the Upcoming Synod on the Family

Jamie L. Manson

• Grace on the Margins: Envisioning an Inclusive Church
• Holy in Body, Holy in Spirit: LGBT Catholics in the Church

M. Cathleen Kaveny

• Faith and Citizenship: A Challenge for American Catholics
• How Should Believers Speak Truthfully in the Public Square?

Richard Gaillardetz

• The Sense of the Faithful: Recovering a Forgotten Teaching of Vatican
• Authority in the Church Today: Challenges and Questions

Simone Campbell, S.S.S.

• Acting on Faith: The Quest for Economic Justice
• Acting on Faith: Intersection of Faith and Immigration

Bryan N. Massingale

• The Ambiguity of Faith: How Religion Both Makes and Unmakes Prejudice
• The Dark Night(s) of Malcolm X: An African American Reading of Catholic Social Spirituality

Jeanette Rodriguez

• Identity, Faith and Resistance: A Latina(o) Perspective
• Liberation Theology: The Next Generation

Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, S.J.

• Faith of My Father, Spirit of My Mother: Resources from African Religion for the Renewal of the World Church
• The Christian Way of Life: Making Room for God in the Public Square

Lisa Sowle Cahill

• Catholic Bioethics, Political Priorities, and the Common Good
• Jesus, Feminism, and Catholic Women

George V. Coyne, S.J.

• The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Chance and Destiny Embrace
• Scientific Evolution: A Challenge to American Society
  

Ilia Delio, O.S.F.

• A Post-Human World? Technology and the Future of Humanity
• Are We Wired for God?
  

Mary Evelyn Tucker

• Envisioning a Sustainable Future: Ecological, Spiritual, and Ethical Perspectives
• Religions and Ecology: The Emerging Alliance

Deanna Witkowski

• Moving with the Spirit: The Sacred Art of Jazz
• Beyond Words: Improvisation as Prayer

Gerard Thomas Straub

• When Did I See You Hungry? A Filmmaker’s Journey from Hollywood to Haiti
• The Spiritual Power of Film

Robert Lentz, O.F.M.

• Christ in the Margins: A Living Tradition of Art
• Global Images of Holiness: Fragments of the Face of God

Paul Quenon, O.C.S.O.

• Poetry, Prayer, and the Play of God
• Seeing with a Poet’s Eye: Photography as Spiritual Practice

John L. Allen Jr.

• The Future Church: How Ten Trends Are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church
• All Things Catholic

Tim Muldoon

• The Next Generation: Spiritual and Religious?
• Young Adults Speak Out

Virgilio P. Elizondo

• World Church, Local Church: Grace, Blessing, Challenge
• If Jesus Had Been Born in San Antonio...

M. Shawn Copeland

• Waiting with the Spirit
• Body Matters

John F. Haught

• Evolution and Faith: What Is at Stake?
• Science, Faith, and the New Atheism

William T. Cavanaugh

• Christianity and the Marketplace: Confronting the Global Economic Crisis
• Does Religion Cause Violence?

Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C.

• Dying to Live: A Theology of Migration
• A Migrant's Journey: Stories from the Borderlands

Christine E. Gudorf

• The Intrinsic Value of Life: Faith, Technology, and Society
• Body, Sex, and Pleasure: Christian Ethics Revisited

Sheila Cassidy

• Audacity to Believe: The Witness of a Political Prisoner
• Colloquium: The Key is Empathy: A Spirituality of Life and Work

Elizabeth A. Dreyer

• Women Alive in the Spirit: Wisdom of Medieval Mystics
• Colloquium: The Holy Spirit According to Women

Jamie T. Phelps, O.P.

• Women Transforming the Church: Moving Toward Communion

Carol Rittner, R.S.M.

• Rape, Religion and Genocide: Breaking the Silence

Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton

• Pillar of Justice, Pillar of Peace
• IRAQ: US Responsibility for PEACE

Charles E. Curran

• Beyond Individualism: Human Rights in the Catholic Tradition
• Loyal Dissent: What Does It Mean (To Me)?

Mary Jo Leddy

• Justice Has a Face and a Name

Carol Zinn, SSJ

• Justice: A Way of Life, Matter of Faith and Affair of the Heart

Sandra M. Schneiders

• Being Christian
• "I'm spiritual but not religious!" - Spirituality and Religion?

David Tacey

• The Spiritual Journey of Generation Y - Illustrated with Drawings and Cartoons
• Spirituality as the Deepest Longing of the Heart

James Alison

• The Dawning Smile: Gay Contributions to Catholic Faithfulness
• Don't Run Away from Desire! Holiness Starting Where We Are

Diarmuid O'Murchu

• Living by the New Spirituality: Skills for Discernment
• Spirituality: Are We Birthing a New Paradigm?

R. Scott Appleby

• American and Catholic: New Tensions in an Old Marriage
• What We Thought We Knew About Religious Fundamentalism

Robert F. Drinan, S.J.

• Catholic Faith and Human Rights: An Agenda for the 21st Century
• The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights

William M. Shea

• Crossing Boundaries: Catholics and Evangelicals
• Evangelicals and Catholics Working Together

Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz

• CATOLICA - The Hispanic Face (and Fate) of the Catholic Church in the USA
• Understanding Justice in the 21st Century

Diana L. Hayes

• Keeping the Faith: The Ongoing Challenge of Vatican II for a Church in Crisis
• Forged in the Fiery Furnace: African American Spirituality - A Conversation with Diana Hayes about a Work in Progress

Joseph A. Komonchak

• Vatican II: Achievement and Promise

Hans Kung

• My Long Road to a Global Ethic

Peter Steinfels and Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

• In the Wake of Vatican II: A People Adrift?

Dr. Thomas Beaudoin

• The Spirituality of Starbucks and the Swoosh: Integrating Who We Are With What We Buy

Fr. Drew Christiansen, S.J., Ph.D.

• Catholic Theology of Peace - And War

Dr. David Adams, Dr. Thomas Shannon, Dr. Leslie Griffin

• Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research: A Catholic Approach

Dr. Maureen Tilley

• 9/11, 311 and 411: Making History and Imaging God

Fr. Donald B. Cozzens, Ph.D.

• The Shape of Ministry in the 21st Century

Dr. Clarke Cochran

• Neither Left nor Right: The Challenge of Being Catholic in American Public Life

Dr. Patrick F. O'Connell

• Thomas Merton's Vision of the Kingdom