Centre for Catholic Studies Podcast

Bishop Dunn Memorial Lecture 2026. Canon Dr Paula Gooder, Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, is introduced by Prof Karen Kilby.

In this CTRS seminar, Dr Todd Walatka, Assistant Chair for Graduate Studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, gave a talk on 'Óscar Romero and the Structure of Catholic Theology: Uniting What We Separate'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Cath...

For the final CTRS seminar of 2025, Dr Simon Hewitt, the Associate Professor in Theology at the University of Leeds, gave a talk on 'The Paradox of Ineffability'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar series ranges across...

For the second CTRS seminar of 2025-26, Dr Michael Hahn, the Dom Gregory Dix Lecturer in Christian Spirituality, Sarum College, gave a talk on 'Language of the Abyss in Bonaventure's Texts'. Photo by Thom Mertens. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of th...

For the first CTRS seminar of 2025-26, Dr Sara Parvis, the Senior Lecturer in the Early Christian History at the University of Edinburgh, gave a talk on 'Women and the Reception of Nicaea'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The s...

In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar, Prof Clare Watkins of the University of Durham gives a talk on 'The challenge of ‘clericalism’: looking beyond clergy for a liveable theology of ordained ministry in the Catholic Church'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholi...

For the third CTRS seminar of 2025, Dr Eilish Gregory, the Little Company of Mary Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University, gave a talk on 'The Global Nursing Mission of the Little Company of Mary, 1877-1941'. You can view the slides that accompany Dr Gregory's talk at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dos0md62tyvyofvpz8236/CTRS-Paper-The-Global-Mission-of-the-Little-Compa...

For the second CTRS seminar of 2025, we were joined by Dr Antonia Pizzey, the Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Centre for Studies of the Second Vatican Council at the Australian Catholic University, who gave a paper entitled: Imagining Church: Mystery, Imagination, and Metaphor. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for...

For the first CTRS seminar of 2025, we were joined by Dr Liam Temple, the Capuchin Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University, who gave a paper entitled: “This Poverty of Spirit”: The Capuchins on the margins of Catholicism in England and Wales, 1850-1873. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discu...

For the second CTRS seminar of 2024-25, we were joined by Dr Emma Percy, the Senior Lecturer in Feminist Theology and Ministry Studies at the University of Aberdeen, who gave a paper entitled: 'Can Aquinas offer some hope to trauma theology?' This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in...

Bishop Dunn Memorial Lecture 2025. Fr Hyacinthe Destivelle is introduced by Fr Anthony Currer, with Fr Andrew Louth (Emeritus Durham University) and Prof. Anna Rowlands (Durham University) as respondents.

For the first CTRS seminar of 2024-25, we were joined by Dr Nomi Pritz-Bennett, the Career Development Fellow at Durham University, who gave a paper entitled: 'The Natural Mortification of Finitude: Loss and the Construction of Real Persons' This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in t...

For March's CTRS seminar, Tina Beattie (Professor Emerita of Catholic Studies, University of Roehampton), gives a paper on Language, desire, and creation in the context of Laudato Si'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The semina...

For April's CTRS seminar, we were joined by Dr Alana Harris, Reader in Modern British Social, Cultural and Gender History, King’s College London, who will give a paper entitled: ‘Student Power in Christ’: the Young Christian Students, Race Relations and Liberation Theology in Britain after 1968. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular...

Mary Beth Ingham: Reading Scotus today: Franciscan foundations for a renewed Christian humanism by Centre for Catholic Studies

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Giuseppe Buffon: A rule that saves? The Capuchin response to the institutional crisis by Centre for Catholic Studies

For this CTRS seminar, we were joined by Franciscan Theologian Br Stefan Walser, who gave a paper entitled: 'So what… Religious Indifference as a Fundamental Theological Challenge'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar s...

Marc Roscoe Loustau is an anthropologist and scholar of religion, specialising in studying religion and nationalism in Eastern Europe. Having spent three years in Hungary and Romania researching the history of Catholic pilgrimage, he now works at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, as Managing Editor of the Journal of Global Catholicism. His paper for this seminar is entitle...

In this CTRS seminar, Billy Crozier of Durham University gives a talk on 'The Quince Made Sweet: Love and Suffering in St Bonaventure's Tree of Life'. This seminar forms part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series (CTRS). The CTRS is a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar series ranges across the traditi...

This is Episode 10 of The Church's Radical Reform, the second podcast series on synodality. The series is presented by Christopher Lamb. Christopher is the Vatican Correspondent for The Tablet and is a doctoral researcher in synodality at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University. The series is sponsored by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University in partnership with The Table...

The Centre for Catholic Studies and the Michael Ramsey Centre for Anglican Studies welcomed Fr Hans Boersma to give the Richardson Lecture for 2023, with a talk entitled "Creation as Love". Fr. Hans Boersma holds the St. Benedict Servants of Christ Chair in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. His latest book is entitled Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the C...

A conversation with the “spiritual father” of the synod: Fr Timothy Radcliffe The reflections of Fr Timothy Radcliffe have been one of the highlights of the October 2023 synod assembly in the Vatican. The English Dominican friar led the synod participants on a retreat before the synod gathering and offered wise reflections and spiritual guidance. Some have called him the “spiritual father” of the...

In this Catholic Theology Research Seminar on the 11th October 2023, Thomas Weinandy gives a talk on 'Does God Suffer?'.

How does the new synod process work? An interview with Austen Ivereigh The October 2023 synod assembly in the Vatican is adopting a very different process to the one used by previous gatherings, which is demonstrated by the arrangement of round tables in the Pope Paul VI audience hall. The sight of bishops and cardinals seated around tables with lay delegates is deliberate and designed to foster w...