ITEST Webinars

The New Genetic Medicine: Miraculous Cures, Ethically Challenging Advances, or Both? This webinar was presented on April 18, 2026 Our presenters Fr. Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, PhD The New Genetic Medicine: Miraculous Cures, Ethically Challenging Advances, or Both? Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., Ph. D., Ph. D., is the John A. Creighton University Professor and chair of the Department of Medical Humanit...

Robert Kurland, Ph. D. Can AI Have a Soul? What Science Fiction Says Dr. Robert Kurland, a convert to Catholicism in 1995, is a retired physicist who has applied magnetic resonance to problems of biological interest in his research (web search: “Kurland-McGarvey Equation”). Dr. Kurland is a graduate of Caltech (BS, 1951, “with honor”) and Harvard (PhD, 1956). His scientific career at Carnegie-Mell...

In this webinar sponsored by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Randal Mandock and Francis Etheredge present on Why the Unborn Matter.  Our presenters Randal Mandock, PhD A Rational Case for Life  Dr. Randal Mandock balanced careers in science and religious education. With a Ph. D. from Georgia Tech, he worked as a geophysicist, professor, and researcher. Simultan...

In this webinar hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology and the Magis Center, Fr. Robert J. Spitzer introduces the Magis AI app.  Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, PhD Challenges and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence: The MagisAI App Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph. D. is President of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith ( magiscenter.com ), one of the largest...

The Holy See and the United Nations: The International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994) as a Case Study Presenters: Jane Adolphe, LLB/BCL/JCL/JCD  Dr. Jane F. Adolphe is a professor of law at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida (2001-present), with degrees in common law, civil law (LLB/BCL), and canon law (JCL/JCD). She is also a lawyer qualified to practice law in Alb...

In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, ITEST presents a webinarentitled  "Bioethics & AI as Human Flourishing: Where Catholic & Orthodox Social Teaching meet in One Christian Social Ethos" (June 14, 2025) Dr. Constantine Psimopoulos BIOETHICS AND AI AS HUMAN FLOURISHING: WHERE CATHOLICS AND ORTHODOX MEET IN ONE CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ETHOS Constantine Psimopoulos is a Profess...

In this webinar entitled AI and Sin: Medieval Robots and the Theology of Technology, hosted by the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Dr. Chris Reilly and Dr. Jordan Joseph Wales offer their insights into the promises and challenges of Artificial Intelligence. (April 5, 2025) Christopher M. Reilly, ThD AI and Sin: How Today’s Technology Motivates Evil Christopher M. R...

Bob Kurland's Slide Links In all protein functions, parts of the proteins bind loosely to other parts of the protein and thus form appropriate structures that are essential to their function. This is shown very nicely in this TED YouTube video, by Professor Ken Dill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm-3kovWpNQ Here is another nice YouTube video showing protein flexibility https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Christ, Science, and Reason: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles.  Our presenters Christ, Science, and Reason: What We Can Know about Jesus, Mary, and Miracles Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, PhD Father Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph. D. is President of the Spitzer-Magis Center of Reason and Faith (www.magiscenter.com). He was President of Gonzaga University from 1998 to 2009. He is the autho...

In this ITEST webinar, Dr. Rob Koons and Dr. Terrence Lagerlund deliver talks on Brain and Artificial Intelligence: A Tale of Two Computers, but Only One Made in the Image of God (October 12, 2024) AI and Aristotle: Why No Artifact could ever be Conscious Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds an M. A. from Oxford and a Ph. D. from UCLA....

In this ITEST webinar entitled "A New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics: Back to Aristotle and Aquinas" Dr. Robert Kurland, Kenneth Francis, and Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, discuss metaphysics, epistemology, and quantum physics. (August 17, 2024) In the order of appearance, Sebastian Mahfood, OP, PhD, "Introduction to Aristotelian-Thomistic Metaphysics" Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, Director of ITEST...

ABORTION PILL REVERSAL – TRUTH OR FICTION? Abortion Pill Reversal - Truth or Fiction? - Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (faithscience.org) OUR PRESENTERS STEPHEN SAMMUT, PHD ABORTION-PILL REVERSAL: PRECLINICAL EVIDENCE Dr. Stephen Sammut received a B.Pharm from Monash University (Victoria, Australia) and a Ph. D. in neuroscience from the University of Malta (Malta,...

In this webinar of the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology, Sr. Marysia Weber, RSM, and Dr. Kevin Powell, discuss the effects of social media on children. (April 13, 2024) Is the increasing number of hours that children are spending using smartphones having any effects on their brains and psychosocial well-being? Research is telling us that the answer to this question i...

WILLIAM BADKE - ENGAGING FACULTY IN TEACHING RESEARCH PROCESSES William Badke grew up in Kelowna, BC, Canada. After completing a B.A. at the University of British Columbia in 1971 and a Master of Divinity (1975) and Master of Theology (1977) he taught at a college in Nigeria, West Africa for two years before returning to teach at Northwest Baptist Theological College in Vancouver, BC. In 1985 he e...

In this ITEST Webinar "Bridging the Chasm: Quantum Mechanics and Christian Spirituality," Dr. Bob Kurland and Dr. Terrence Lagerlund (December 16, 2023) BRIDGING THE CHASM: HOW QUANTUM MECHANICS BRINGS TOGETHER THE PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL WORLDS BY TERRENCE D. LAGERLUND, MD, PHD Dr. Terrence Lagerlund has been a neurologist in the Division of Epilepsy at Mayo Clinic for 35 years, treating patients...

ITEST Webinar entitled "Science, Reason, and Faith: Discovering the Bible" with Fr. Robert J. Spitzer, SJ, and Dr. Tom Sheahen (December 2, 2023) Built into our very nature is a desire to know about the world around us. The big questions of human existence are inescapable: Who am I? Why am I here, and where am I going? Why is there evil in the world? What is the meaning of life? This yearning for...

In this episode of I Thought You'd Like to Know This, Too, the Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology presents Greg Miller and Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, OP, in a webinar entitled Education and Evangelization in the Age of AI: Promise and Perils (November 18, 2023) his session will be led by a former Catholic principal and theology teacher, Greg Miller. Dive deep into the inte...

In this webinar, D. Kristina Olsen, OCDS, talks about Principles of Change: Teresa of Avila’s Carmelite Reform and Insights from Change Management (November 4, 2023) Dr. Olsen's book draws from organizational change management principles to examine Teresa of Avila’s 16th-century reform of the Carmelite Order. During the last twenty years of her life, Teresa addressed the problems she saw in the Ca...

DR. PATRICK CASTLE LIFE Runners President & Founder REAL HEALTHCARE DEFENDS LIFE AT ALL STAGES ABSTRACT Did you know that Hippocratic Oath specifically forbids abortion and euthanasia? Did you know the American Medical Association in 1859 unanimously voted that life begins at conception and that abortion is criminal? Did you know that Google makes it more difficult for mothers to find pregnanc...

In this ITEST Webinar, "Science at the Doorstep to God," Fr. Robert Spitzer presents on his latest book, Science at the Doorstep to God , which is an especially important book at the present time because the realization that our universe had to be created by a super-intelligent Transcendent Being is emerging into the public domain. Dr. Thomas P. Sheahen, responding to Fr. Spitzer's presentation, s...

Classical metaphysics is grounded in a philosophy of Being (States of Being) with God as the Supreme Being or Pure Actuality. Potentiality is seen in descending states of being: first, the order of angels, human beings, higher-order and lower-order animal species, plants, insects, minerals, their molecular and atomic components, prime matter. Process- or systems-ordered metaphysics is grounded in...

ITEST Presents... CATHOLIC HIGHER EDUCATION IN A CULTURE OF DEATH: CREATING THE WORLD’S MOST FAITHFUL CATHOLIC MEDICAL SCHOOL STEPHEN MINNIS, President of Benedictine College, JERE PALAZZOLO, President of Catholic Healthcare International, GEORGE MYCHASKIW, II, DO, President of the Saint Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, School of Osteopathic Medicine Our society is declining in a c...

In this webinar we will discuss the work of Mary Kloska’s books in renewing and spreading the Catholic faith in Pakistan. Joined by Aqif Shahzad, her translator and a great missionary in his own right, the two will explain specifically the founding of Children’s Prayer Groups (named Children of the Cross) who are dedicated to meet at least once a month to pray for priests and persecuted Christians...

The heinous scientific experiments performed on living human beings at the hands of Nazi doctors and researchers was internationally condemned and prohibited as “crimes against humanity” by the Nuremberg Code that was formulated seventy-five years ago in August 1947. In 1987, forty years later, the Magisterial Instruction Donum vitae added important new bioethical standards regarding the ethical a...

FR. KEVIN FITZGERALD, SJ, PHD, PHD ​Healing Post-Covid Healthcare by Greater Integration of the Humanities and Ethics into Healthcare Education Kevin T. FitzGerald, S.J., Ph. D., Ph. D., is the John A. Creighton University Professor and chair of the Department of Medical Humanities in the School of Medicine, at Creighton University. He received a Ph. D. in molecular genetics, and a Ph. D. in bioet...