As the dust settles on what looks to be one of the most litigated elections in American history, we have assembled an expert international panel to discuss the latest developments and make sense of what is happening in America today.
Confirmed speakers:
Clifford Longley, Prof. Bryan Massingale and Fr James Heft
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Bryan Massingale is the James and Nancy Buckman Professor of Theological and Social Ethics, as well as the Senior Ethics Fellow in Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education. Prior to his appointment at Fordham, he was Professor of Theology at Marquette University. Professor Massingale is a leader in the field of theological ethics. He is a past Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics and serves on the editorial board of Theological Studies, one of the premier Catholic journals of theology. He also served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Moral Theology and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. He is a current member and past coordinator of the North American Regional Committee of the “Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church” project.
He has served as a consultant to the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, providing theological assistance on issues such as criminal justice, capital punishment, environmental justice, and affirmative action.
Clifford Longley is an author, broadcaster and journalist who has specialised since 1972 in the coverage and analysis of British and international religious affairs. For 20 years he wrote a weekly column in religion, morality and culture in The Times and from 1992 to September 2000 in The Daily Telegraph. He currently has a regular column in The Tablet, of which he is also Editorial Consultant. He is a regular panelist on Radio 4’s The Moral Maze and a regular contributor to Thought for the Day.
His research interests include history, theology, early Christianity, mysticism and church history.
James Heft (Marianist) is a priest in the Society of Mary and leader for over thirty years in Catholic higher education. He spent many years at the University of Dayton, serving as chair of the Theology Department for six years, Provost of the University for eight years, and then University Professor and Chancellor for ten years. He left the University of Dayton in 2006 to found the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he now serves as the Alton Brooks Professor of Religion and President of the Institute. He has written and edited thirteen books and published over 175 articles and book chapters. Most recently he co-edited with Social Psychologist Jan E. Stets (University of California, Riverside, Empty Church: Disaffiliation in America (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), and authored The Future of Catholic Higher Education: The Open Circle (also forthcoming from Oxford University Press). He has also worked for years in the field of interreligious dialogue, editing Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility Among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Oxford, 2011); and Catholicism and Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford 2011). His book, Catholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities (Oxford, 2011) was listed as a “best seller” in a 2012 Oxford catalogue.
In 2011, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities awarded him the Theodore M. Hesburgh award for his long and distinguished service to Catholic higher education. This fall, he taught a course on the history of Catholic immigrants coming to the U.S., and lead a senior seminar on "Religions and Violence" for majors in International Relations and Religion.
He currently serves on the LA Archbishop’s Theological Advisory Committee, the Catholic Bishops of California Education Committee, and the USCCB Committee on Education.