Religion

Notre Dame theologian Father Groody to advise Vatican conference on migration
While human migration is as old as human history, there are more migrants today than ever before. Displaced from their homelands by wars, genocide, famine, natural catastrophes, and collapsed or withering economies, there are 200 million such people worldwide, roughly the equivalent of the population of Brazil, according to Rev. Daniel G. Groody, C.S.C., assistant professor of theology and director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies. Read More

Elmhurst College Honors Champion of the Poor
Elmhurst College will present its highest honor, the Niebuhr Medal, to Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Roman Catholic priest and acknowledged "Father of Liberation Theology," for his lifetime of service to humanity, especially the poor.

A renowned theologian and champion for the rights of the world's "poorest of the poor," Gutiérrez challenges Christians to join in a sustained fight against material poverty. Read More

Hispanic Catholic leaders gather at Notre Dame for conference on the Bible in church life
Hispanic Catholic leaders from around the world are meeting Friday and Saturday (July 31 and Aug. 1) at the University of Notre Dame for a conference titled “Camino a Emaús: The Word of God and Latino Catholics.”

The conference, sponsored by the American Bible Society and Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, is intended to deepen appreciation of the Bible and its role in the life and mission of the Church.

Speakers at the conference include Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops; Carmen Cervantes, of the Instituto Fe y Vida; Archbishop Nikola Eterović, general secretary of the Synod of Catholic Bishops; Renata Furst of Assumption Seminary in San Antonio; Archbishop José Gómez of San Antonio; Hosffman Ospino of Boston College; and Liana Lupas of the American Bible Society. Read More