Inside the Core
Inside the Core this week many Core I students read Martin Luther King Jr's "Mountaintop Speech," which resonates with the lives of some African saints presented on this past Wednesday.

Inside the Core this week many Core I students read Martin Luther King Jr's "Mountaintop Speech," which resonates with the lives of some African saints presented on this past Wednesday.
Your gift of school supplies and new soccer balls supports students in the sites we will be visiting and reflects our course themes of faith, care and community.
Seton Hall’s Catholic Studies Program was represented at the launch of the Scottish Catholic Studies Arts Lab (SCAL) at the University of Glasgow on October 22nd, 2025.
The Core is happy to celebrate Black Catholic History Month with a panel of experts on African Saints and their Legacy. We are also supporting the launch of the Laudato Si Challenge.
"To the Heights": Catholic Studies Conference” at DeSales University, presenting research that bridged the Catholic intellectual tradition with contemporary questions of culture and identity.
Fr. Brian Muzas of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations will be our second presenter in the Scholars' Forum in the CIT for fall of 2025
Seton Hall University’s Catholic Studies Program is proud to celebrate John M. Travaline, M.D. adjunct faculty member, was honored with the Catholic Medical Association’s Distinguished Guardian award.
Core I offers Islamic texts including Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, a twelfth century philosophical tale about a feral child raised by a doe.
Seton Hall University’s Catholic Studies Program invites you to step into living history—from ancient Greece and Rome to the heart of today’s Church—March 2026
You are invited to take part in the Laudato Si’ Sustainability Challenge! From now until Summer 2026.
The University Core, Campus Ministry, and the English Club are co-sponsoring three screenings of hour long segments of LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring, linking it to Pope Francis' Laudato Si.
Inside the Core, we are grateful to have a wonderful team of leaders, including our coordinators for our three Signature classes and our co-chairs for the Signature Course Curriculum Committee (SCCC).
The presentation will offer a look into the mind of the men who elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost OSA to the See of Peter and examine the core governance issues facing Pope Leo XIV.
The Core will sponsor and support a wide array of interesting events, all linked to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition in one way or another.
The First Year Summer Read, The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer, links to Pope Francis' Laudato Si.
As we mark the tenth anniversary of Pope Francis’s landmark encyclical Laudato Si’, this lecture will explore the past, present, and future of integral ecology within the Catholic Church’s tradition.