Christendom College Lectures

On February 17, Andy Day delivered a talk to the Christendom faculty and students entitled “Evangelization: That Which We Have Seen and Heard”. Andy Day is the Southeast Regional Director for FOCUS, the Fellowship Of Catholic University Students, one of the fastest growing programs in the Catholic Church. Andy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Christendom Co...

Fr. Joseph Mary Brown discusses the difficult and often complex matter of discerning vocations.  Father was born in Bardstown, KY, the third of seven children. He graduated from Christendom College in 1985 with a B.A. in Philosophy. In 1991, he joined the Congregation of St. John (an active-contemplative Community founded in France in 1975) in Laredo, TX, where he did his Novitiate. From there, he...

“You are among the last young people who recognize that the love of learning and desire for God goes together,” Rev. Romanus Cessario, O.P. told students at his lecture held on November 14.  “Now that is a remarkable gift. You must think of yourselves as inheritors of a long tradition. What you’ve got is not some pious Catholic thing.” Rev. Cessario is a professor at St. John’s Monastery in Boston...

Well-known Catholic author and journalist Russell Shaw delivered a talk entitled “Secrecy vs. Communio in the Catholic Church” at Christendom College on Monday November 3, 2008. Shaw is author or coauthor of 20 books and a contributor to and/or editor of several others. His most recent book is Nothing To Hide: Secrecy, Communication, and Communion in the Catholic Church . Shaw has published thousa...

On October 30, Ms. Olivia Turner was invited to give a talk to the Christendom community on pro-life matters. Olivia Gans Turner is the director of American Victims of Abortion (AVA), founded in 1985 as an outreach of the National Right to Life Committee. In 1981, while a college student, Mrs. Turner underwent a suction aspiration abortion 12 weeks into her pregnancy.  After suffering an acute emo...

On October 15, Congressman Frank Wolf came to Christendom College to give a talk entitled “Challenges Facing America”. Having received his degree in political science and law from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., Wolf joined the United States Army as a reservist and became a lawyer for the military. In 1968, he entered politics and became a legislative assistant to Edward Bies...

On September 29, world-renowned Scripture scholar and Theology professor Dr. Scott Hahn launched Christendom College’s Major Speakers Program, delivering a lecture on “The Gospel According to St. Paul.” His lecture focused both on Paul’s conversion and his understanding of Christ. Quoting scripture, Hahn said, “‘Though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be gra...

Robert Spencer breaks through the cognitive dissonance of our time illuminates the meaning of Jihad. Religious dialogue is an increasingly pressing issue, which is often distorted and plagued with disinformation. 

Michele Velasco (’91) is the Vice President for Finance of Sirius XM radio . She encouraged students to work hard and realize that, sometimes, they must start at the bottom in order to make it to the top. “I started as an intern and worked my way up from the very bottom. Over the years, I assumed more and more responsibilities because I was willing to take them on. You have the skills you need: do...

On April 7, Philosopher and Former Christendom College President Dr. Damian Fedoryka delivered an address entitled “John Paul II’s Hermeneutics of the Gift as the Key to Understanding Life and Death” to students at Christendom College. The talk delved into the richness of John Paul II’s often-complex philosophy, highlighting the late pontiff’s emphasis on the importance of the human person. Fedory...

Dr. Warren Carroll addressed students with a talk entitled “Thirtieth Anniversary Reflections from the Founder” on November 12. “I regard myself as immensely privileged to have been able to devote so many of my 75 years to the creation, guidance, and maintenance of this college and I know that under my splendid successor, Timothy O’Donnell, this College will remain unchanged throughout the next th...

On October 26, Professor Mark Wunsch delivered a talk entitled “Could God have Created a World with an Eternal Duration?”. After receiving a B.A. in philosophy from Regis University in Denver, CO., Prof. Mark Wunsch, Ph. L., Ph. D. (Cand.) pursued his graduate studies in Rome at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), where he obtained Ph. B. and Ph. L degrees in philosophy...

Randall Terry emphasizes the importance of diligently fighting against the evil of abortion. He address the nation's need for courageous citizens.

Father Mode is the author of The Grunt Padre , the biography of Vietnam War hero and Navy Chaplain Father  Vincent R. Capodanno, MM, whose 1967 death in battle while assisting U.S. Marines posthumously earned him the Medal of Honor, the U.S. Military’s highest decoration. The Catholic Church has declared Father Capodanno, a Maryknoll missionary from Staten Island, N.Y., a “Servant of God,” formall...

Founding faculty member Dr. William Marshner addressed faculty and students at the annual Senior Dinner held October 1. His talk, “The Recrudescence of Modernism and Christendom,” delved into roots of modernism and the importance of Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis .

On April 23 George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope , the acclaimed biography on John Paul II, delivered an address entitled “Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church” to students at Christendom College. The talk took a look at the character of Benedict XVI, some of the challenges he faces, and some personal thoughts on the principal themes of his pontificate. “The rapid election o...

On November 24, 1996, Paul Weyrich addresses the faculty and staff of Christendom College on the importance of Catholics being involved in the nation's politics.