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2024 Guest Speaker: Paul Elie
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St. Peter Catholic Church and the Kennedy Lecture Committee was pleased to host Paul Elie on Jan 27, 2024. Paul is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, the story of four modern American Catholics (Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy) who made literature out of their search for God and Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book about how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time.
Elie is a prolific writer of articles for the New Yorker covering the Pope, the Catholic Church and more.
Paul will join us for a conversation with Tim Funk.
Read the Catholic News Herald article: Best-selling Catholic author Paul Elie to speak at 24th annual Kennedy Lecture
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Living Our Faith in Turbulent Times
A Conversation with Paul Elie
was held on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024
About the Kennedy Lecture Series:
The Kennedy Lecture is an annual event, which is the gift of Thomas and Richard Kennedy in memory of their parents, Keith and Joan Kennedy.
The lecture series aims to challenge us and to stimulate thinking by engaging prominent persons in the field of religion and ethics.
Explore the list of past speakers who participated in the Kennedy Lecture Series.
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Explore Paul Elie's writing
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How a Decade of Pope Francis Has Changed the Church
The Pontiff has shown that Catholicism is a dynamic institution, whose leader can face unresolved questions openly.
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What I Learned at My Audience with the Pope
Addressing the group, Francis spoke about the role of the imagination in the life of Catholicism.
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The Least of the Apostles
St. Paul, so vital to Christianity as to be called its second founder, has receded in importance among Catholics. A personal exploration into why this has happened and why it matters. (From Notre Dame Magazine)
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Confronting Georgetown’s History of Enslavement
In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.
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