Vatican II and Catholic Higher Education: Leading Forward Conference
October 13-15, 2022
Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Sacred Heart University celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, as well as the 60th anniversary of the University’s founding in the spirit of Vatican II. Both the first session of Vatican II and Bishop Walter W. Curtis’ founding of Sacred Heart University took place during October 1962.
To celebrate this landmark moment in the history of Catholic higher education and the Catholic intellectual tradition, Sacred Heart University, sponsored by a grant from the Lilly Fellows Program, and supported by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities is assembling a conference of thinkers, writers, and artists who will offer deep, creative, and interpretive reflection on the impact of Vatican II on Catholic higher education. We want to examine and imagine how Vatican II can lead and move Catholic higher education forward. We want to explore how our reading and understanding of Vatican II documents, as well as the formative thinkers of Vatican II and the Catholic intellectual tradition, can deepen and expand our vision of Catholic higher education, addressing new and old challenges.
Keynote Speakers
- Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University
"Vatican II and the Catholic University in a time of Social and Political Disruption" - Grant Kaplan, St. Louis University
“To Embrace or Expel? The Challenge and the Promise of Handing Down the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for Catholic Higher Education in Light of Dei Verbum” - Susan Reynolds, Emory University
“What, for the Catholic University, is Solidarity? Catholic Higher Education and the Unfinished Reception of Gaudium et Spes” - Patricia McGuire, Trinity Washington University
“Joy and Hope on the Margins: The Mission Imperative of Access to Catholic Higher Education”
Questions?
Michelle Loris, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
SHU-VaticanIIConference@sacredheart.edu