Program/Schedule



Tuesday, September 18

  9:30-10:45 Dr. Christie Billups, Michael Fekete,& Dr. Graziano Marcheschi (St. Xavier
University), Panel Discussion: Saying "Yes" to the Call: The Emergence of Lay Ecclesial Ministry-Co-Workers and Visionaries
(D'ARCY)
  11:00-12:15 Jon NilsonKeynote Session: Jon Nilson, (Loyola University of Chicago), Needing and Heeding "the Other"; the Neglected Mandate of Vatican II (CHAPEL)
  12:30-1:45 Film Screening: Vatican II: The Faithful Revolution (D'ARCY)
  2:00-3:15 Br. Jeffrey Gros & John Armstrong (Wheaton College), Vatican II and the Churches' Witness to Religious Freedom (D'ARCY)
  7:00-8:15 Mary Collins, OSB
Keynote Session:
Mary Collins, OSB, (Catholic University of America), Liturgy and Catholic Identity
(CHAPEL)

Wednesday, September 19

  9:00-9:50 James Burke, How Dorothy Day's Pilgrimage to Vatican II Changed Catholic Teaching on War and Peace (D'ARCY)
  10:00-10:50 Margot McMahon, Artist Franklin McMahon Captures the Vatican II Experience (D'ARCY)
  11:00-11:50 David Daniels IIIKeynote Session: David Daniels III (McCormick Theological Seminary), Vatican II and the Remapping of American Protestantism (CHAPEL)
  12:00-12:50 Christie Billups, Interreligious Dialogue and Relationship: Ebb and Flow Since Nostra Aetate (D'ARCY)
  1:00-1:50 Fr. Daniel Torson, Church as Sacrament: Revisited and Applied (D'ARCY)
  2:00-3:15pm Film Screening: A Question of Habit: Women Religious After Vatican II,
Q & A with writer, producer, & director Bren Ortega Murphy (Loyola University of Chicago)
(AS-158)
  7:00-8:30pm Kathie Blanchfield, Nanci Peek, Sandra Razka, & Janice Smith, The Church Opens its Doors to the Healing Ministry of Parish Nursing (D'ARCY)

Thursday, September 20

  9:30-10:45 Lynn Tovar, Linking Vicarious Traumatization and the Growing Interest of
Spirituality in Law Enforcement
(CHAPEL)
  11:00-12:15 TBA  
  12:30-1:45 Dominic Colonna, The Reception of the Second Vatican Council: Different
Interpretations of the Council's Value
(CHAPEL)
  2:00-3:15 Catherine E. Clifford
Keynote Session:
Catherine E. Clifford (St. Paul University), The Church in Dialogue
(CHAPEL)
  7:00-8:15 Dianne Bergant, CSA
Keynote Session:
Dianne Bergant, CSA (Catholic Theological Union), The Bible in Our Lives Today
(CHAPEL)

Friday, September 21

  8:00-8:50 James Burke, Vatican II Encourages Dialogue between Science and Religion (D'ARCY)
  9:00-9:50 Steven Zlatic, How Might John Baptist de La Salle Implement Vatican II? Br. Jeffrey Gros, Respondent (D'ARCY)
  10:00-10:50 Carmen Nanko-FernandezKeynote Session: Carmen Nanko-Fernández (Catholic Theological Union), "The walls are sprayed with gospel": Reading the Signs of Our Times (CHAPEL)
  11:00-11:50 James Burke, How to Make a Pilgrimage to Vatican II by 2015? (D'ARCY)
  12:00-12:50 Elayne Fracaro-Gallion, The Fundamental Role of Religion in American Political Social Imagination D'ARCY)