Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, announced recently the launch of a new publication called The Gregorian “to promote Catholic identity in public life.” Benedictine’s writer in residence Tom Hoopes is the publication’s editor.
From the Benedictine College press release:
“The crisis of our day is the separation of faith from public life,” Hoopes said. “Our campus regularly features speakers who are courageously living their Catholic identity in the world. Now readers can hear their incredible lessons about how faith and reason can work together in the real world.”
Hoopes says readers can look forward to significant lectures. Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schonborn presented a landmark lecture at Benedictine College last spring semester, “Pope Benedict, Regensburg, and the Controversy of Creation and Evolution.” Last fall, Jesuit Father Robert Spitzer presented a summary of his book, “New Proofs for the Existence of God: Contributions of Contemporary Physics and Philosophy.”
Coming to campus soon are speakers such as Dr. Janet Smith, John Allen Jr. and Dr. Robert George of Princeton.
The first issue of The Gregorian focuses on Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in her centennial year. On Mother Teresa’s 100th birthday Aug. 26, Benedictine College dedicated its Mother Teresa Nursing Center and launched its new nursing major, and has spent the academic year focusing students’ attention on the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
Read more about The Gregorian here.
Benedictine College is featured by The Cardinal Newman Society in The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. Read Benedictine’s profile here.
Adam Wilson
CNS Staff
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