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The following artistic performance requires a paid admission:

A Choir is the Place Where the ‘I’ and the People Meet” (Fr. L. Giussani)

Performance Saturday, January 18, 2014, 9:00 pm. Open seating. Tickets are $20 and are available online and at the door.

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Speakers

Wednesday
Sep052012

Paul Bhatti

Paul Bhatti is the Pakistani Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs and brother of Shahbaz Bhatti, the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs assassinated on March 2, 2011.

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Wednesday
Sep052012

Fr. Peter Cameron

Father Peter John Cameron, O.P. was ordained a Dominican priest in 1986. In addition to his work as Editor-in-Chief of Magnificat (www.magnificat.com), he is the chairman of the department of homiletics at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, New York, and the artistic director of Blackfriars Repertory Theatre in New York City. He is the author of ten books. The most recent is entitled Made for Love, Loved by God.

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Thursday
Sep062012

H.E. Cardinal Edward M. Egan

His Eminence Cardinal Edward M. Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York. During Cardinal Egan’s tenure as Archbishop of New York, the number of registered parishioners increased by 204,000; the budget of Catholic Charities grew by 125 per cent; enrollment in Catholic elementary and secondary schools rose by 15,400; the Archdiocesan newspaper Catholic New York became the largest in the nation; and the Archdiocese and its various agencies were made debt-free.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Francis Greene

Dr. Francis Greene has taught French literature, culture, and Fine Arts at St. Francis College since September 1968 and serves as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Fine Arts where he holds the rank of Professor. He holds a Doctorate in French Literature from Rutgers University and a Master of Philosophy in Art and Architectural History from City University, New York.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Michael Hanby

Michael Hanby, a theologian, is Assistant Professor of Science and Culture at the John Paul II Institute for Studies of Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America, where he teaches primarily in the theology, biotechnology, and bioethics specialization. Prior to that, he taught at Baylor University and Villanova University.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Harold Korell

Harold Korell is Chairman of the Board at Southwestern Energy in Houston, TX.

Korell, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines with a Professional Degree in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering, began his career with Mobil Oil Corporation and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Texas and Colorado. Mr. Korell serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Walton College at the University of Arkansas and the Board of Governors of the Colorado School of Mines.

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Thursday
Sep062012

John McCarthy

John McCarthy, Dean of the School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America. He earned his B.A. in philosophy from St. Michael’s College, the University of Toronto.  His M.A. and his Ph.D. are from The Catholic University of America.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Michael Odnoralov 

Michael Odnoralov is a Russian painter, active in the non-conformist movement from the 1960s to 1980s.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Dr. Dermot Quinn

Dr. Dermot Quinn is a Professor of History at Seton Hall University, a member of the Board of Advisors of the G. K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and Associate Editor of The Chesterton Review.

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Thursday
Sep062012

Lisa Schiltz

Elizabeth R. Schiltz is a Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy, and Thomas J. Abood Research Scholar at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. After receiving a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia School of Law, she practiced for many years as a banking regulatory lawyer.

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Tuesday
Sep252012

John Waters

John Waters, columnist for the Irish Times, author, playwright and songwriter, was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon, in the West of Ireland in 1955. He pursued a variety of occupations after leaving school, including railway clerk, showband roadie, pirate radio manager, petrol pump attendant and mailcar driver. He began part-time work as a a journalist in 1981, with Hot Press, Ireland’s leading rock ‘n’ roll periodical, becoming a full-time journalist with the paper in 1984, when he moved to Dublin.

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Thursday
Jul252013

Charles Townes

Charles Townes received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his role in the invention of the maser and the laser, and is presently a Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley, engaged in astrophysics research. Dr. Townes's principal scientific work is in microwave spectroscopy, nuclear and molecular structure, quantum electronics, radio astronomy, and infrared astronomy; he is presently most active in the latter two fields. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he has received a number of awards and honors, as well as honorary degrees from twenty-five colleges and universities.

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Thursday
Jul252013

Julián Carrón

Called by Father Giussani to share in the responsibility of the leadership of the Movement, Father Julián Carrón has been President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation since March 19, 2005, and Ecclesiastical Assistant to the Memores Domini since May 13, 2005.

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Thursday
Jul252013

Joseph Weiler

J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor as well as holder of the European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, Director of the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, and Co-Director of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. Weiler is also Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium and Natolin, Poland; Honorary Professor at University College, London; Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen; and Co-Director of the Academy of International Trade Law in Macao, China.

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Thursday
Jul252013

Michael Waldstein

Michael Waldstein, Ph.D. is the Max Seckler Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University. In the Fall of 2009 he began teaching at Ave Maria University and became the first endowed chair of that university. He is a member of the Pontifical Council for the Family and is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.

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Saturday
Jul272013

Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields is a composer, music teacher and lecturer who in his career has explored many regions of the musical world. After graduating first in his class from Mannes College of Music in 1981, he joined David Horowitz Music Associates, one of the leading commercial music production companies in the world, and has been an award-winning composer of over a thousand television and radio spots.

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Saturday
Jul272013

David Flatto

David Flatto is an associate professor of law, religion, and history at Penn State Law. He has served as a visiting professor at Hebrew University Law School and Yeshiva University, and a visiting researcher at Yale Law School.

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Saturday
Jul272013

Fabrice Hadjadj

A French writer and philosopher, Hadjadj was born in Nanterre to Jewish parents of Tunisian heritage in 1971. In his teens he was an atheist and anarchist, and he maintained a nihilistic attitude for most of his twenties until, in 1998, he converted to Catholicism.

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Saturday
Jul272013

Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra, born in England, was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside the likes of John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor. After he moved to the U.S., he became one of the founding editors of NATIONAL LAMPOON magazine.

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Saturday
Jul272013

David Horowitz

David Horowitz is a composer who began playing piano at age 3. As a young adult, he played with Gil Evans and Tony Williams, and later became Composer in Residence at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.; he also arranged albums for Peter Allen, Carol Hall and others at Elektra Records.

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