Theology Events
"Can AI Alleviate Poverty?" - March 4, 2026
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.
4:30-6:00 pm - SB Hall Serafy Room
Landregan Lecture – March 5, 2026
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.
March 5, 2026 * 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
SBHall Multipurpose Room
Fr. Peter Stravinskas - November 5, 2025
"Newman on the Liturgy"
“Intellectual Sources of American Anti-Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century” October
21, 2025
A talk and Q&A with Dr. Paul Gutacker, Baylor University. Author of The Old Faith
in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past (Oxford, 2023)
John Paul II Lecture - September 18, 2025
Speaker: Fr. Thomas J. White, O.P. - "Aquinas on the Mystery of Trinitarian Indwelling"
Landregan Lectures- March 13, 2025
Speaker: Brant Pitre - Did the Historical Jesus Know that He was God?
Pater Edmund Waldstein - September 23 & 25, 2024
The Theology Department hosted Pater Edmund Waldstein, OCist, monk of Stift Heiligenkreuz, for a presentation on human dignity. The presentation will investigate traditional
Catholic teaching on the "two powers," spiritual and temporal, and demonstrate how
an understanding of this teaching can inform a proper understanding of human dignity.
Fr. Edmund’s website: https://thejosias.com/author/sancrucensis/
John Paul II Lecture - September 20, 2024
The Department of Theology invited Donald Prudlo, PhD, William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, to deliver
this year's John Paul II Lecture. Prudlo's presentation was titled "Where Would Thomas
Aquinas Live in Middle-Earth?"