Warsaw Seminar on Catholic Social Teaching
The Center for Catholic Studies at Sacred Heart University is proud to sponsor an annual seminar on Catholic social teaching in Warsaw, Poland.
The seminar was initiated by Cardinal Blase Cupich in 2015 when he chaired the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Subcommittee on Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe. Designed by church leaders and pastoral agents, the seminar brings together scholars from the United States and Europe whose presentations lead to lively discussions among participants. The seminar is hosted by the European Centre for Communications and Culture (ECCC), a Jesuit-run conference center in the Falenica neighborhood of Warsaw, and is made possible by a grant from the USCCB. Seminar papers are accessible through a digital library at the ECCC, where they are available in English and Polish, as well as through this webpage.
Past Presentations
- Melanie Barrett, University of Saint Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, IL
Catholic-Jewish Relations: Nostra Aetate and Beyond - Angela Carmella, Seton Hall University Law School, Newark, NJ
Dignitatis Humanae and the Universal Right to Religious Freedom: Advancing the Dignity of the Person and the Common Good of Society - Paolo Foglizzo, Aggiornamenti sociali, Milan, Italy
The Dignity of Work: An Anthropological Examination - Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
Gaudium et Spes Approaching 60: Christian Personalism and Care for Our Common Home - Fáinche Ryan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
To Deepen Our Understanding of the Mission Entrusted to Us - Tobias Winright, St. Patrick's University, Maynooth, Ireland
Catholic Social Teaching on War and Peace from Gaudium et spes to Fratelli tutti and Today
- Anna Abram, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Principles, Methods, and Inspiring Surprises in Pope Francis’ 10 year Pontificate: From Catholic Social Teaching to Catholic Social Learning - Meghan J. Clark, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
The Human Person in Community: Pope Francis & Catholic Social Teaching - Paolo Foglizzo, Aggiornamenti sociali, Milan, Italy
Care is Work, Work is Care - Suzanne Mulligan, St. Patrick's University, Maynooth, Ireland
Pope Francis and Neoliberalism - Amanda Osheim, Loras College, Dubuque, IA
Pilgrimage to the Kingdom: The Ecclesiology of Francis’s Social Magisterium - Tobias Winright, St. Patrick's University, Maynooth, Ireland
Just War Theory, Moral Injury, and the War in Ukraine
- Gregoire Catta, Centre Sèvres – Facultés Jésuites de Paris, Paris, France
Catholic Social Teaching and Family - Meghan J. Clark, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Catholic Social Teaching and Christian Anthropology - Yuriy Tykhovlis, Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, Holy See
The Pastoral Response of the Catholic Church to Contemporary Massive Displacements - Ellen Von Stichel, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Europe’s “Neonationalism” Read Through the Lens of Fratelli tutti: A Call to Move from Fear to Fraternity
- Gerald J. Beyer, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Catholic Social Teaching and Ecclesiology - Most Rev. John Michael Botean, Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George, Canton, OH
Peacemaking - Gregoire Catta, Centre Sèvres – Facultés Jésuites de Paris, Paris, France
Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. New Paths for Catholic Social Teaching in the 21st Century - Meghan J. Clark, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Mercy & Catholic Social Teaching - Rev. Clete Kiley, Archdiocese of Chicago
Catholic Social Teaching Regarding Work and Workers: Questions for Today and Tomorrow - Suzanne Mulligan, St. Patrick's University, Maynooth, Ireland
Catholic Social Teaching and the Economy
- Gerald Beyer, Villanova University, Villanova, PA
The Rise of Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Social Catholicism and Pope Leo XIII - Anna Rowlands, Durham University, Durham, England
Mid-century Catholic Social Teaching 1930-1958 - Rev. Grégoire Catta, S.J., Loyola Paris, France
Catholic Social Teaching under John Paul II and Benedict XVI: Receiving Vatican II in Challenging Times - Meghan Clark, St. John's University, Queens, N.Y.
John 23, Vatican II, and Paul VI: Becoming the Church in the Modern World