The Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary are pleased to host the first of four lectures in the John Cardinal Krol Chair Lecture Series on Continuing the Search for Religious Freedom: Fifty Years after Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae.
Speaker: Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
Topic: Present Trials, Future Challenges
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Archbishop Chaput served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2003 – 2006. His duties included religious freedom fact-finding missions to China and Turkey and compiling annual reports monitoring global trends in religious liberty. In 2005, he was named a member of the U.S. delegation to Cordoba, Spain, for the “Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance,” sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. In 2009, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty awarded Archbishop Chaput the Canterbury Medal for his work in advancing religious freedom.
All lectures are free and open to the public and will take place at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, Vianney Hall Auditorium; 100 East Wynnewood Road; Wynnewood, PA 19096 (Montgomery County). Refreshments to follow.
Other speakers in the series include: Mr. William P. Mumma, President of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; Dr. Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University; and the Most Reverend William E. Lori, S.T.D., Archbishop of Baltimore.
Editor’s Note: For more information about the John Cardinal Krol Chair lecture series please contact Laura Verdi at 610-785-6530 or visit www.scs.edu.
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