2013/14
Hanley Memorial Lecture Series: Past Lectures
Year Speaker Role Topic
2015 The Most Rev. J. Michael Miller, CSB Archbishop of Vancouver The Future of the Universal Church & the Place of the Local Churches in that Future
2014 Catherine E. Clifford Saint Paul University Pope Francis & Deepening Catholic Ecumenical Commitment: Learning from Recognizing Other Christian Churches
2012/13 Gerard Mannion, PhD University of San Diego, CA A Teaching Church that Learns: The Art of Magisterium
2011 Francis X. Clooney, SJ Harvard Divinity School A God Real Enough to be Absent
2010 Lisa Sowle Cahill, PhD University of Chicago Divinity School Catholic Bioethics & Social Justice
2009 Fr. Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ Our Religious Imagination
2008 Roger S. Gottlieb, PhD Worcester Polytechnic Institute Religious Environmentalism, Ecological Democracy, & the Problem of Evil
2007 A. Rashied Omar, PhD Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Islam & the Challenge of Peace Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame)
2006 Sandra Schneiders, IHM Jesuit School of Theology, Berkley The Bible as the Word of God
2005 Achiel Peelman, omi St. Paul University The Traditional Spirituality of Canada’s First Nations peoples & Christianity: A Commitment to Dialogue
2004 Joseph Komonchak Catholic University of America Vatican II & Beyond: Thinking about the Church
2003 Elizabeth Johnson, csj Fordham University Exploration into God
2002 Mary Boys, snjm Union Theological Seminary Questions that Touch on the Heart of our Faith: Judaism as a New Catechism for Christians
2001 Walter J. Burghardt, SJ Georgetown University Justice 2001: A Fresh Perspective
2000 Eamon Duffy, PhD Divinity College, Cambridge University, Catholicism & its Pasts England
1999 Luke Timothy Johnson Candler School of Theology, Emory University Jesus Then & Now: A Consideration of History & Faith
1998 Thomas Groome Boston College Educating For Life: From the Depth Structures of Catholic Spirituality, Drawing A Vision for Every Teacher & Parent
1997 Daniel Callahan The Hastings Center & Sidney Callahan, Ethics, Pluralism, & Modern Medicine Mercy College
1996 John Finnis Oxford University & Notre Dame University Public Reasons: Re-reading Aquinas on Some Strategic Questions in Ethics & Politics
1995/96 J. Bryan Hehir Harvard University The Social Character of Catholic Faith, Teaching, & Policy
1994 Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza Harvard University Toward a Discipleship of Equals
1993 Robert Alter University of California, Berkeley The Literary Study of the Bible
1992 Jon Sobrino, SJ Central American University, El Salvador Jesus Christ Liberator: A Christology of Liberation
1991 Michael J. Buckley, SJ Notre Dame University Catholicism & the Rise of Modern Atheism
1990 Walter Principe, csb Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, History & the Teaching Church Toronto
1989 Joan A. Chittister, OSB Mount St. Benedict Priory Christian Response to the Winds of Change
1988 James M. Gustafson Emory University Varieties of Moral Discourse
1987 Petro B. Bilaniuk University of Toronto Preparing for the Millenium or a Bimillenium of Christianity in Ukraine
1986 Avery Dulles, SJ Catholic University of America The Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome in 1985
1985 Raymond E. Brown, SS Union Theological Seminary What Modern Biblical Research Means for Catholic Life & Doctrine
1984 Richard A. McCormick, SJ Georgetown University Continuing Problems in Bioethics: An Overview
1983 John Noonan University of California, Berkeley Moral Directives from the Church: How should they affect civil society?
1982 Francis G. Morrisey, OMI Saint Paul University A Shift from a Church of the Clergy to a Church of the Faithful
1981 Johannes B. Metz University of Munster Religion & Politics
1980 Brian Tierney Cornell University Religion & Western Constitutional Thought