College of Arts & Sciences

Center for Catholic Studies
Programs 2008-2009

Including the Bernard J. Lonergan Institute, the G.K. Chesterton Institute for Faith & Culture, and the Micah Institute for Business and Economics

Summer 2009:

  • May 19, 20 & 21, 2009 -- Annual Faculty Summer Seminar, “Strategies and Themes of Luke” Presenter:  Rev. Anthony Ziccardi, S.T.D., S.S.L.
  • May 26 - June 10, 2009 -- The Poland of  John Paul II Study Tour, 3 credits
  • June  19 &  20, 2009 -- Bernard J. Lonergan International Summit Conference  on Economics
  • June 29 - July 14, 2009 -- Oxford University Summer Study Abroad 2009, 3 credits
  • July 11, 2009 -- Chesterton Institute conference -  “A Distributist View of the Economic Crisis”, Oxford
  • August 6, 2009 -- Faculty Seminar on  “A Conversation on Assessment and Critical Thinking,” with Prof. Lance Grigg, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

Fall 2009:

  • September 1, 2009 -- Msgr. Richard Liddy at SHU Law School on “Ethics and the Life of the Corporation”
  • Micah Stillman Seminars for business school students, undergraduate and graduate
  • September 19, 2009 --  Tours of Catholic New York:  San Gennaro, TBA
  • September 29, 2009 -- Monthly Woodstock Business Conference/Micah meetings begin
  • September, 2009 -- Lonergan Economic Summit Follow-up Faculty Forum; Monthly
  • September 29,  2009  --  Msgr. Richard Liddy on “Research as Conversion” – Center for Vocation and Servant Leadership  faculty retreat series, “The Heart of the University”
  • October 15, 2009 -- GK Chesterton Institute conference, “A Divine Entente Cordiale”, at College des Bernardins, Paris, France
  • October 20, 2009 -- GK Chesterton Institute conference on “The Social Impact of Chesterton”  Madrid, Spain
  • October  22, 2009 --  GK Chesterton Institute conference on “Distributism: Chesterton’s Social Philosophy and the Problems of the Modern World”,  Granada, Spain
  • October 27, 2009 -- Bernard J. Lonergan Economic Summit Follow-up Forum, lecture by Margaret Benefiel on the “Spirituality of Work”
  • November 7, 2009 -- Tours of Catholic New York:  Lower Manhattan Churches, TBA
  • November 12, 2009 --  Bernard J. Lonergan Economic Summit Follow up Forum -- a lecture by Gene Ahner on the “Meaningfulness of Business”  
  • November 2009 --  Chesterton Institute 4th annual South American conferences – Argentina, Chile, Brazil
  • December 9, 2009 --  Chesterton Christmas program, co-sponsored by Crossroads Cultural Center, New York City

Additional lectures  and activities,  TBA

Spring 2010:

  • February 2010 -- Chesterton Institute conference at Mexican Institute for Social Christian Doctrine,  Mexico City, Mexico  on "The Financial Crisis and G.K. Chesterton" and "The Man Who was Thursday"
  • April, 2010 , TBA --  Annual Summit, Micah Business Leadership Project
  • Micah Stillman Seminars for business school students, undergraduate and graduate
  • May 2010 -- Annual Faculty Seminar

Study Abroad:


  • May 2010 --  Italy in the Footsteps of the Saints, 3 credits, TBA.

Summer 2010:

  • June, 2010 -- co-sponsor “Orientale Lumen XIV – North” conference at Seton Hall    
  • June 2010 -- Summer Reading course in Lonergan for students,TBA
  • July 2010 --  Tolkien Conference, Granada, Spain
  • July 2010 --  Italian Teachers conference on Lonergan and Education,TBA

Ongoing Publications:


  • Chesterton Review --   published bi-annually; Spanish issue annually
  • Lonergan Review --   published annually
  • Arcadia --  Annual student journal, published in the Fall

For more information, please visit the Center for Catholic Studies webpage, call (973) 275-2525, or e-mail catholicstudies@shu.edu

Contact Us

Center for Catholic Studies
Telephone (973) 275-2525
Fax (973) 275-2594
E-mail catholicstudies@shu.edu
Walsh Library Rm. 429
Business Hours
Monday - Friday
8:45 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.