In this year’s grad colloquium, we will engage with the two great councils of the modern world: Trent and Vatican II. We will consider these two formative councils for the modern world and explore them as essential guides for understanding our salvation and justification, the nature of the human person, the meaning of the church, the shape of the lay vocation, and the relationship between religion and freedom. 

In exploring these two councils, we hope to deepen our understanding of Catholicism while considering ways to bring the faith to the world. 

Dates:

• Thursday, Sept. 29 Trent Sixth Session on Justification 

• Thursday, Oct. 20 Trent passages on the Sacraments/Liturgy

• Thursday, Nov. 17 Lumen Gentium: What is the Church?

• Thursday, Jan. 19 Gaudium et Spes: The Crisis of Modernity and the Human Person

• Thursday, Feb. 16 Gaudium et Spes: Responding to the World

• Thursday, March 16 Apostolicam Actuositatem & Ad Gentes: Living the Lay Vocation

• Thursday, April 13 Dignitatis Humanae & Nostra Aetate: Human Dignity and Religious Relations

• Thursday, May 18 Concluding Conversation

Time: 7:00–8:30pm

Location: Leadership Hall

RSVP: This colloquium is open to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania and other Philadelphia area universities. Please click the button below to RSVP for this semester's sessions and receive the readings.