Past Events

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The Lattey Lecture 2020

The group led by Dr Flavio Comim will read and discuss The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha Nussbaum (Harward University Press, 2019).

The 2020 Von Hügel Lecture delivered by Cardinal Michael Fitzgerald:

BOOK LAUNCH

BOOK LAUNCH

In recent decades the Catholic Church, alongside other institutions, has been rocked by revelations about widespread physical and sexual abuse of minors by its clergy. This lecture will take global stock of that crisis after six years of Pope Francis’ pontificate and ask where the Church has got to in remedying this situation.

The VHI is currently exploring different visions of one of its key markers, ‘catholicity’, and contemporary constrictions in its embodiment of that capacious characteristic.

At the end of a long life, I wish to record both the debts that I owe to the Catholic Church and the reasons why I am glad that I am no longer a member of it. While attending junior and senior seminary I received an excellent classical education and made many good friends.