Founded at Seton Hall University in 1997, the Center for Catholic Studies is rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition and is dedicated to fostering a dialogue between religion and all areas of contemporary culture, including science, humanities, and professional life. Its work contributes to fostering the wholeness or “catholicity” that Seton Hall University seeks to bring into the world. To that end, the Center sponsors an undergraduate degree program in Catholic Studies, offering a major, minor and certificate program, co-curricular activities, foreign study opportunities, and publishes Arcadia a student journal. It also offers an ongoing program on faith and culture topics for faculty, students and the general public. The Center includes the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute and the Micah Institute for Business and Economics. It is also the home of the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture and its prestigious journal, TheChesterton Review.
Since the summer of 1998 the Center for Catholic Studies at Seton Hall University has sponsored faculty summer seminars. The point of these seminars is to engage the Seton Hall faculty in interdisciplinary dialogue on issues of humanistic and religious import.
