Archive
2024 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
“The Role of the Catholic Church in the Democratization Process in Poland from 1989 – 2024"
Stanislaw Obirek, University of Warsaw
Coffey Hall - McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
Thursday, September 19, 2024
“The 1998 Good Friday Agreement - The Agreement Between the Political Parties in Northern Ireland and the British and Irish Governments: A Peacebuilding Discussion
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland from 1997 - 2011
Rooney Hall, Mundelein Center
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
February 16, 2024
Co-sponsored by the Theology Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Richard A. McCormick S.J. Chair in Catholic Moral Theology, and the John Courtney Murray S.J. Chair in Public Service
2023 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
Defining the Extraterritorial: Habermas and Ricoeur on Religion and Reason
Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College Dublin
Coffey Hall – McCormick Lounge
Thursday, October 26, 2023
2022 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Entangled Responsibility - Clergy Sexual Abuse...and What it has to do with Loyola University Chicago"
Coffey Hall - McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Keynote Lecture
"Invisibility and Vulnerability: The Institutional Roots of Clergy Sexual Abuse"
Doris Reisinger, Goethe University Frankfurt
Taking Responsibility - Documentation of Clergy Sexual Abuse at Loyola University Chicago
"Context of the Documentation"
Terence McKiernan, President, BishopAccountability.org
"The Online Project"
Hille Haker, Loyola University Chicago
Sebastian Wuepper, Loyola University Chicago
2018 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Breaking White Supremacy: The Black Social Gospel, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 'Fury in the Negro'"
Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary and
Professor of Religion at Columbia University
Information Commons, 4th Floor
Monday, April 16, 2018
International McCormick Ethics Colloquium
“Healing the Wounds of Violence: How to Understand and Respond to Religious and Political Violence”
Coffey Hall – McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
April 18 – 19, 2016
Keynote Lecture by Fr. Michael Pfleger, Senior Pastor, The Faith Community of Saint Sabina
Program
2015 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Responsibility and the Integrity of Life"
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School Information Commons, 4th Floor
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
To Tend the Earth: Responding to the Global Climate Change Crisis
Mundelein Auditorium
Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus
March 19 and 20, 2015
George Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Lisa Sideris, Associate Professor, Indiana University
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University
William French, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Rep. Robyn Gabel, 18th District, Illinois House of Representatives
Kathleen Smythe, Professor, Xavier University
Daniel R. DiLeo, Project Manager of Catholic Climate Covenant
Elke U. Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Management and Psychology at Columbia University
Organized by the the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the Department of Theology, and the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
International McCormick Chair Colloquium
"The City as an Intersectional Site of Ethics and Theology"
Universität Erfurt
May 23 - 25, 2014
From May 23rd to May 31st, 2014, a group of professors and doctoral students from the Theology Department of Loyola University Chicago visited Germany. This trip was a follow-up on the McCormick International Colloquium that had taken place in Chicago in 2013. On that occasion, a group of scholars, research fellows, and doctoral students from Theologisches Forschungskolleg Erfurt, the only
Catholic faculty in East Germany, had visited Loyola University Chicago to engage in the conference topic “Christianity in a Pluralistic
Society”, and to explore the religious and spiritual traditions of our city. The goal of the two-year exchange was to facilitate opportunities for international collaboration and networking, not only for the full-time faculty, but also for the doctoral students and candidates in the ISET program. The return visit to Germany was also meant to give the participants the opportunity to further this collaboration and visit some historic sites in Germany within close proximity to both the arrival city of Berlin and the conference city of Erfurt. The conference topic chosen for this year’s conference was: “Christianity and the City”. The paper presentations were distributed
to all participants prior to the conference, and the discussions were complemented by a public lecture given by Loyola scholar, Dr. John
McCarthy. This public event enabled the group to meet with members of the theology faculty of Erfurt and others from the general public who were not part of the conference itself
2014 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"How Politics Became Impossible and Ethics Became Unnecessary: The Shrinking Vocabulary of Modern Public Life"
Robin Lovin, Director of Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and
Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at SMU
Piper Hall
Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
US ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE, ETHICS, & PUBLIC POLICIES
Mundelein Auditorium
Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus
November 14 and 15, 2013
James Balog, Founder & Director, Extreme Ice Survey, Founder, Earth Vision Trust
Knut Nadelhoffer, University of Michigan
Larry Rasumussen, Union Theological Seminary
Emmanuel Agius, University of Malta
Howard Learner, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Donald Wuebbels, University of Illinois
Jame Schaefer, Marquette University
Organized by the Office of the President, the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the Department of Theology, and the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
2013 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Storytelling as Sword and Shield: Oak Creek and Supermax—Two Case Studies"
Valarie Kaur
Damen Student Center MPR North
September 26, 2013
2024 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
“The Role of the Catholic Church in the Democratization Process in Poland from 1989 – 2024"
Stanislaw Obirek, University of Warsaw
Coffey Hall - McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
Thursday, September 19, 2024
“The 1998 Good Friday Agreement - The Agreement Between the Political Parties in Northern Ireland and the British and Irish Governments: A Peacebuilding Discussion
Mary McAleese, President of Ireland from 1997 - 2011
Rooney Hall, Mundelein Center
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
February 16, 2024
Co-sponsored by the Theology Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Richard A. McCormick S.J. Chair in Catholic Moral Theology, and the John Courtney Murray S.J. Chair in Public Service
2023 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
Defining the Extraterritorial: Habermas and Ricoeur on Religion and Reason
Maureen Junker-Kenny, Trinity College Dublin
Coffey Hall – McCormick Lounge
Thursday, October 26, 2023
2022 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Entangled Responsibility - Clergy Sexual Abuse...and What it has to do with Loyola University Chicago"
Coffey Hall - McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Keynote Lecture
"Invisibility and Vulnerability: The Institutional Roots of Clergy Sexual Abuse"
Doris Reisinger, Goethe University Frankfurt
Taking Responsibility - Documentation of Clergy Sexual Abuse at Loyola University Chicago
"Context of the Documentation"
Terence McKiernan, President, BishopAccountability.org
"The Online Project"
Hille Haker, Loyola University Chicago
Sebastian Wuepper, Loyola University Chicago
2018 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Breaking White Supremacy: The Black Social Gospel, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 'Fury in the Negro'"
Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary and
Professor of Religion at Columbia University
Information Commons, 4th Floor
Monday, April 16, 2018
International McCormick Ethics Colloquium
“Healing the Wounds of Violence: How to Understand and Respond to Religious and Political Violence”
Coffey Hall – McCormick Lounge
Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus
April 18 – 19, 2016
Keynote Lecture by Fr. Michael Pfleger, Senior Pastor, The Faith Community of Saint Sabina
Program
2015 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Responsibility and the Integrity of Life"
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School Information Commons, 4th Floor
Thursday, April 16, 2015
Sponsored by the Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
To Tend the Earth: Responding to the Global Climate Change Crisis
Mundelein Auditorium
Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus
March 19 and 20, 2015
George Crabtree, Senior Scientist, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Lisa Sideris, Associate Professor, Indiana University
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar, Yale University
William French, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Rep. Robyn Gabel, 18th District, Illinois House of Representatives
Kathleen Smythe, Professor, Xavier University
Daniel R. DiLeo, Project Manager of Catholic Climate Covenant
Elke U. Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business and Professor of Management and Psychology at Columbia University
Organized by the the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the Department of Theology, and the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
International McCormick Chair Colloquium
"The City as an Intersectional Site of Ethics and Theology"
Universität Erfurt
May 23 - 25, 2014
From May 23rd to May 31st, 2014, a group of professors and doctoral students from the Theology Department of Loyola University Chicago visited Germany. This trip was a follow-up on the McCormick International Colloquium that had taken place in Chicago in 2013. On that occasion, a group of scholars, research fellows, and doctoral students from Theologisches Forschungskolleg Erfurt, the only
Catholic faculty in East Germany, had visited Loyola University Chicago to engage in the conference topic “Christianity in a Pluralistic
Society”, and to explore the religious and spiritual traditions of our city. The goal of the two-year exchange was to facilitate opportunities for international collaboration and networking, not only for the full-time faculty, but also for the doctoral students and candidates in the ISET program. The return visit to Germany was also meant to give the participants the opportunity to further this collaboration and visit some historic sites in Germany within close proximity to both the arrival city of Berlin and the conference city of Erfurt. The conference topic chosen for this year’s conference was: “Christianity and the City”. The paper presentations were distributed
to all participants prior to the conference, and the discussions were complemented by a public lecture given by Loyola scholar, Dr. John
McCarthy. This public event enabled the group to meet with members of the theology faculty of Erfurt and others from the general public who were not part of the conference itself
2014 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"How Politics Became Impossible and Ethics Became Unnecessary: The Shrinking Vocabulary of Modern Public Life"
Robin Lovin, Director of Research at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey, and
Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at SMU
Piper Hall
Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
US ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE, ETHICS, & PUBLIC POLICIES
Mundelein Auditorium
Loyola University Chicago Lakeshore Campus
November 14 and 15, 2013
James Balog, Founder & Director, Extreme Ice Survey, Founder, Earth Vision Trust
Knut Nadelhoffer, University of Michigan
Larry Rasumussen, Union Theological Seminary
Emmanuel Agius, University of Malta
Howard Learner, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Donald Wuebbels, University of Illinois
Jame Schaefer, Marquette University
Organized by the Office of the President, the Institute for Environmental Sustainability, the Department of Theology, and the Richard A. McCormick Chair of Catholic Moral Theology
2013 Richard A. McCormick S.J. Lecture
"Storytelling as Sword and Shield: Oak Creek and Supermax—Two Case Studies"
Valarie Kaur
Damen Student Center MPR North
September 26, 2013