STEP is pleased to
announce that recent lectures from the University
of Notre Dame are available free of charge on the
web.
Cathleen Kaveny, professor
of theology and John P. Murphy Foundation Professor
of Law; Lawrence Cunningham, John A. O’Brien
Professor of Theology; and Rev. Richard McBrien, Crowley-O’Brien
Professor of Theology, delivered the most recent lecture
in the University of Notre Dame’s Saturday
Scholar Series, “A Change at the Top: Pope
Benedict XVI,” on Nov. 12, 2005.
The panelists examined
some of the political, theological and doctrinal issues
that will be addressed by the new pope, and what his
papacy might mean for contemporary Catholics.
The presentation is
available for viewing on the Web at:
Broadband:
http://streaming.nd.edu/artsletters/saturday05/benedict.wmv
Modem: http://streaming.nd.edu/artsletters/saturday05/benedict_low.wmv
A panel of world leaders
convened at the University of Notre Dame on Sept.
22, 2005 in a forum that provided an academic cornerstone
to the inauguration of Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.,
as the University's 17th president.
Titled "Why God?
Understanding Religion and Enacting Faith in a Plural
World," the forum took place at 2 p.m. in the
Joyce Center arena.
Panelists for the forum
included Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez
Maradiaga, S.D.B., archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras;
John C. Danforth, former U.S. senator from Missouri
and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations;
Naomi Chazan, professor of political science and African
studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a former
member of Israel's parliament, the Knesset, and a
three-decade participant in the Israeli-Palestine
peace process; and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder
and chief executive officer of the American Society
for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) and imam of New York
City’s largest mosque.
Former NBC Nightly
News anchor Tom Brokaw served as moderator for the
discussion, which included participation by selected
Notre Dame faculty and students.
The presentation is
available for viewing on the Web at:
Broadband:
http://streaming.nd.edu/n&i/inaugural/forum.wmv
Modem: http://streaming.nd.edu/n&i/inaugural/forum_low.wmv
