Our Inheritance: Vatican II at 50
The Post-Conciliar Generation Looks at the Next Half Century

Monday, March 9 – Tuesday, March 10, 2015
E. Gerald Corrigan Conference Center | 12th-floor Lounge | Lincoln Center Campus | 113 W. 60th S. | New York, N.Y.

Sponsored by the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC

An impressive gathering of leading Catholic thinkers from the generation that came of age in a post-Conciliar world will explore how Vatican II continues to shape the Church and its engagement with the wider world.

Monday, March 9, 2015

Welcome and Keynote Session: 4 ‐ 6:15 p.m.

Speaker: John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame
Respondents: Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
Bronwen Catherine McShea, Columbia University
Moderator: Matt Malone, S.J., America

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Welcome- 8:30 ‐ 8:45 a.m.

Session I: 8:45 ‐ 10:30 a.m.
Politics, Culture, Gender—Successes, Disappointments, Opportunities

Panelists: Tobias L. Winright, St. Louis University
Paul Elie, Georgetown University
Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado, University of Miami
Moderator: Vincent J. Miller, University of Dayton

Break:10:30 ‐ 10:45 a.m.

Session II: 10:45 a.m. ‐ 12:30 p.m.
From a European Church to a Global Church: Critical Perspectives on Globalization

Panelists: Marcello Neri, Europe‐University of Flensburg
Maryann Cusimano Love, The Catholic University of America
Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University
Moderator: Natalia Imperatori‐Lee, Manhattan College

Lunch Break: 12:30 ‐ 1:45 p.m.

Session III: 2 ‐ 4 p.m.
Vatican II at 100: Imagining an Agenda for the Next Half Century

Panelists: Stephen R. Grimm, Fordham University
Maria Teresa Dávila, Andover Newton Theological School
Christiana Z. Peppard, Fordham University
Tricia Bruce, Maryville College
Moderator: Gary Adler, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

Break: 4 ‐ 4:15 p.m.

Session IV: 4:15 ‐ 5:30 p.m.
Review and Wrap‐Up Session

Respondents: Catherine Cornille, Boston College
Massimo Faggioli, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)
Moderator: James P. McCartin, Fordham University

5:30 ‐ 6:30 p.m.
Reception for all conference participants

For more information, contact RSVP at 212-636-7347 or crcprogram@fordam.edu.