Becoming American Saints: Catherine Tekakwitha, Elizabeth Ann Seton, and the Search for Homegrown Holiness
The talk is part of a series of lectures leading up to an international conference titled "Women in the Church: makers of the human," that is scheduled for March 7 and 8, 2024 (www.womenchurch2024.com). The lecture will focus on Elisabeth Seton e Kateri Tekakwitha.
The goal for this event and the conference will be to highlight the aspects in which the "builders" character of women is manifested (education, spirituality, sowers of peace and promoters of dialogue, etc.) acting in the context of the universal Church, a reality that has as one of its main manifestations the variety of countries of origin or action of these saints.
The scientific committee is composed by representatives of the Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), the Pontifical Urbaniana University, the Pontifical University of Holy Cross, the Institute of Higher Studies on Women of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum, of Rome.
The scientific committee is composed by representatives of the Catholic University of Avila (UCAV), the Pontifical Urbaniana University, the Pontifical University of Holy Cross, the Institute of Higher Studies on Women of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum and the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum, of Rome.
The event counts on the sponsorship of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints and the Section for Fundamental Issues of Evangelization in the World of the Dicastery for Evangelization.
A talk by: Prof. Kathleen Sprows Cummings, professor of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame
Moderated by: Prof. Silvia Mas from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
With the participation of: His Excellency Ambassador Joseph Donnelly, United States Ambassador to the Holy See
Moderated by: Prof. Silvia Mas from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
With the participation of: His Excellency Ambassador Joseph Donnelly, United States Ambassador to the Holy See
It will be organized in preparation for the Jubilee of 2025 and broadcasted via youtube through the channels of the organizing universities in Italian, Spanish, English and French.