FIRST YEAR MEETING TOPICS

SEPTEMBER

The first meeting was held at the Hansa Brewery on Wednesday, September 13, 2017.  Nine of the sixteen members who had been sent an invitation showed up. It quickly became evident that we were not an eating or drinking group. Everyone was a subscriber and all preferred recent Commonweal articles. 

One member offered his home for future meetings. The group preferred to meet at a nearby parish or the nearby Jesuit high school. Subsequently neither was found to be available. The call went out for any parish site. Saint Noel parish approved our request within 24 hours, asking that our meeting be placed in their bulletin and be open to members of their parish.

OCTOBER

King and his Mentors  Gary Dorrien

NOVEMBER

Signs of the Times: Witnessing to a Consistent Ethic of Solidarity  Cardinal Blase Cupich 

DECEMBER

Can the Churches Be Reunited? The Orthodox Might Have the Answer  George Hunsinger

JANUARY

Just War? Enough Already Gerald W. Schlabach

The War against Just War Enough Already Peter Steinfels

FEBRUARY

Christians & the Death Penalty: There Is No Patron Saint of Executioners  David Bentley Hart

MARCH

A Life, Not a Grammar: The Limits of Theology Paul J. Griffiths

APRIL

No More Nukes? An Exchange Michael C. Desch and Gerard F. Powers

MAY

Imagine There Is No Clergy: Two Views William Shea, David Cloutier

JUNE

Civic Virtue & the Common Good: Forming a Catholic Political Imagination 

Robert W. McElroy, John T. McGreevy, Cathleen Kaveny, and Matthew Sitman

JULY

Household Names: Junia, Phoebe, & Prisca in Early Christian Rome Michael Peppard

AUGUST

Saving Adam: Evolution & Original Sin    John Farrell

All of the meetings except the first and the last were held at Saint Noel. The last meeting was held at the home of Wayne Lobue on the night before he passed.