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SUMMARY:Parental Rights and Family Relations in a Postmodern Age
DESCRIPTION:What is at stake when the family and the law intersect? As part of its ongoing cultural engagement\, the John Paul II Institute will host a gathering of scholars in law\, politics\, philosophy\, and theology to discuss “Parental Rights and Family Relations” on Sept. 22-23. Co-sponsors of the event are the Center for Law and the Human Person at CUA’s Columbus School of Law and the Alliance Defending Freedom. \nLimited seats are available for students of the Institute and the Columbus School of Law to audit the discussions. Interested students may contact mrice@johnpaulii.edu to sign up to attend. \nEvent Description\nWhen Terry McAuliffe stated during his 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial campaign that he didn’t “think parents should be telling schools what they should teach\,” he ignited a small firestorm that may have cost him the election. The statement betrayed the smug and high-handed attitude of education bureaucrats and teachers’ union officials. Yet\, McAuliffe’s gaffe represented a relatively mild version of a larger trend in which more radical calls for “rethinking” the family in toto echo through the academy and government. The trend is not only in the direction of assimilating parental authority to public institutions; it also includes\, perhaps paradoxically\, privatizing and contractualizing currents\, for example in surrogacy arrangements. In either case\, the effect is to diminish or deny the importance of the natural relationship between the parents and the child and\, by implication\, in the other familial relationships as well. \nMcAuliffe’s statement alludes to parental objections concerning the education offered by public schools. But American law poses many challenges for parents beyond books and curricula. The Covid pandemic’s various mandates were simply the latest twist on the long-running issue of parental authority over\, or even knowledge of\, medical and other life-altering decisions\, for example in cases of abortion or “gender transition.” Then there is the question of the basis for deciding custody battles\, the termination of parent-child relationships\, the requirements for adoption\, and the larger ambiguities and implications of the “child’s best interests” and “parental fitness” standards. Finally\, there are the many questions raised by new biotechnological practices\, which have twisted and fragmented parenthood into a cluster of gametic\, genetic\, gestational\, contractual\, psychological\, associational\, and other “parts” or aspects. \nEach of these vexed areas\, as well as others\, raises issues concerning the basis and nature of parental rights and duties under American law. But each also raises profound philosophical and theological questions. The same-sex marriage movement\, for example\, forced a wider reassessment of the nature of the parent-child relationship\, of its normative value and anthropological centrality. Of course\, “rethinking” the parent-child relationship has implications for all familial relationships and reveals a drift toward the displacement of natural familial relations by non-familial institutions. Certainly\, these issues\, played out in their distinctively American ways\, are nevertheless universal in their scope. Pierre Manent\, for example\, has spoken of our “metaphysical” ambition “to inscribe in positive law the thesis according to which the just or legitimate human order excludes all reference to a natural norm or purpose.” \nOf course\, law has always played a crucial role\, whether to set conditions for marriage or divorce\, to mediate marriage’s effects\, for example inheritance (cf. Leo XIII\, Arcanum divinae sapientia)\, to establish lines of succession\, or to intervene in cases of abuse or neglect. But more fundamentally\, familial relationships are not only “natural” with an overlay of positive law. Rather\, the very genesis of law is deeply involved with the developing sense of both marriage and the family. Indeed\, this simultaneity of development is a mark of civilization in its origins. This observation invites reflection on precisely how the family\, law\, and civilization do and should relate. \nOur symposium seeks to address these questions and more\, specifically from the point of view of law\, philosophy\, and theology. \nSchedule
URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/parental-rights-and-family-relations-in-a-postmodern-age/
LOCATION:Saint John Paul II National Shrine\, 3900 Harewood Road\, NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20017\, United States
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SUMMARY:Summer Fellowship: "Gender\, Technology\, and Culture"
DESCRIPTION:College juniors and seniors\, as well as recent graduates\, in all fields are cordially invited to apply for the 2023 John Paul II Institute Summer Fellowship\, taking place this year on May 30-June 3. \nThe goal of the Summer Fellowship program is to offer the opportunity for academically talented students to engage deeply with theological and philosophical questions that go to the heart of our current cultural and ecclesial experience. Our theme for this summer’s program is “Gender\, Technology\, and Culture.” \nG.K. Chesterton once predicted that the proposition “leaves are green in summer” will one day become a matter of religious conviction over which swords will be drawn. His prophetic remark foreshadows the present crisis: a basic element of human experience—our being differentiated as male and female\, husbands and wives\, mothers and fathers\, sons and daughters\, brothers and sisters—has been widely nullified and its expression increasingly sanctioned. What caused this strange development? \nThe ideology of gender draws on a wider and older narrative of progressive liberation\, both from traditional political structures and from the givenness of our “material” condition. Its rhetorical face likens the movement to recent civil rights battles over race or sex. But\, unlike the question of race\, and more radically than that of sex\, it attempts to detach the personal subject from a mechanistically conceived and objectified body\, ostensibly transmutable according to subjective preferences. The mantle of political and social liberation has given way to an explicit assault on the givenness of natural and cultural form. As such\, the gender movement is perhaps the starkest unmasking to date of modern rationality’s deeper implications. \nOur 2023 Summer Fellowship will focus on the relationship between the current gender movement\, modernity’s dominant scientific and technological understanding of reality\, and the rejection of cultural form. The Fellowship will include not only lectures and seminars but also cultural events. \nApplication\nProspective Summer Fellows should complete the application form by April 7.  Acceptance notifications will be sent by April 21. \nPlease note: Applications are still being accepted; however\, new applicants may be waitlisted\, as the acceptance process is already underway (4/19/23). \nCosts\nAll Summer Fellows will receive a scholarship that covers the cost of housing in the dorms of The Catholic University of America\, meals\, and tuition. Participants will be responsible for their own travel to Washington\, DC\, public transportation expenses\, and a $200 registration fee. \nQuestions may be directed to Elena Martin at emartin@johnpaulii.edu or 202-526-3799.
URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/summer-fellowship-gender/
LOCATION:Pontifical John Paul II Institute–McGivney Hall\, 620 Michigan Avenue\, NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reflections on the Origins of Communio and the Contribution of Several Ressourcement Theologians: In Memory of David L. Schindler
DESCRIPTION:The John Paul II Institute will host a conversation with Fr. Joseph Fessio\, S.J. on Monday\, March 27\, at 4 p.m. in Keane Auditorium: “Reflections on the Origins of Communio and the Contribution of Several Ressourcement Theologians: In Memory of David L. Schindler.” \nFr. Fessio is in a unique position to reflect on the post-conciliar currents in Catholic theology. He studied under theological giants Joseph Ratzinger\, Henri de Lubac\, and Hans Urs von Balthasar\, who together founded Communio: International Catholic Review in 1972\, and was instrumental in the selection of David L. Schindler as editor of the English-language edition of the journal\, which Dr. Schindler led for more than 40 years. As founder and editor of Ignatius Press\, Fr. Fessio has spent 45 years bringing the profound works of his former teachers (and many others) to an English-speaking audience. \nThe event is in memory of David L. Schindler (1943-2022)\, who was a seminary classmate of Fr. Fessio’s in the early ’60s and a former Dean of the Institute. Fr. Fessio will share personal and theological reflections on the lives and work of Ratzinger\, de Lubac\, and Balthasar\, and on the significance of the Communio school for Catholic theology. \nWe hope you will join us for this special event.
URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/reflections-on-the-origins-of-communio/
LOCATION:Keane Auditorium\, McGivney Hall\, 620 Michigan Avenue\, NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karol Wojtyła as Philosopher of Encounter
DESCRIPTION:The John Paul II Institute invites you to a lecture on “Karol Wojtyła as Philosopher of Encounter” by Dr. Grzegorz Ignatik on Wednesday\, January 25\, at 4:00 p.m. in Keane Auditorium in McGivney Hall. \nThe lecture will present the relevance of Karol Wojtyła’s thought for life today by highlighting several themes of encountering the other\, found in his pre-papal writings. Dr. Ignatik will also discuss the significance of the current translation project\, the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II\, and working with Wojtyła’s original manuscripts. \nAn Institute alumnus (Ph.D. ’14)\, Dr. Ignatik is Associate Professor of Theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum. He serves as lead translator and editor of manuscripts for the English Critical Edition of the Works of Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II (CUA Press)\, which published Volume 1: Person and Act and Related Essays in 2021\, and will publish Volume 2: The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler in 2023. He is also the translator of Wojtyła’s Love and Responsibility (Pauline Books and Media\, 2013) and author of Person and Value: Karol Wojtyła’s Personalistic and Normative Theory of Man\, Morality\, and Love (Lexington Books\, 2021). \nWe hope you will join us for this lecture\, followed by a reception in Keane Auditorium lobby.
URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/karol-wojtyla-as-philosopher-of-encounter/
LOCATION:Keane Auditorium\, McGivney Hall\, 620 Michigan Avenue\, NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Common Good and the Political Order: On the Church's Responsibility for the World
DESCRIPTION:Conference Description\nDuring the concluding ceremonies of the Second Vatican Council\, Cardinal Lienart\, speaking on behalf of Pope Paul VI and the Council fathers\, delivered the following message “to all those who hold temporal power”: \nWe do honor to your authority and your sovereignty\, we respect your office\, we recognize your just laws . . . . But we have a sacrosanct word to speak to you and it is this: Only God is great. God alone is the beginning and the end. God alone is the source of your authority and the foundation of your laws. . . . It is God\, the living and true God\, who is the Father of men and women. And it is Christ\, His eternal Son\, who came to make this known to us and to teach us that we are all brothers and sisters. He it is who is the great artisan of order and peace on earth. . . . In your earthly and temporal city\, God constructs mysteriously His spiritual and eternal city\, His Church. And what does this Church ask of you after close to two thousand years of experiences of all kinds in her relations with you today? She tells you in one of the major documents of this Council. She asks of you only freedom\, the freedom to believe and preach her faith\, the freedom to love her God and serve Him\, the freedom to bring to mankind her message of life. \nAnd yet\, this plea for religious freedom seems to stand in some tension with the Church’s perennial commitment to the common good. As has become more apparent since the Counsel\, the liberalism of Western democracies\, such as the U.S.\, has increasingly neglected the idea of common good in favor of the mere mediation of individual and group interests and rights. In doing so\, it has reduced the Church’s mission to that of one interest group\, whose private form of rationality is essentially irrelevant to public discourse\, or worse\, is an obstruction to material and political progress. \nYet\, by reason and by faith the Church acknowledges the primacy of God as “the beginning and end of all things” (Vatican I\, Dei Filius). How does the primacy of God and the corollary doctrine of the common good shed light on the nature and end of political authority? What is the ground of religious freedom? What is the nature of the Church’s responsibility for the temporal order? \nWhile there is a growing consensus among Catholics that our liberal political order is in crisis\, there remain deep disagreements about the nature and end of political authority and the relationship between the Church and state. The aim of this conference is to consider the relationship between the Church and political order in light of the idea of the common good as developed within the Catholic tradition. \nSchedule\nAll conference sessions will take place in Keane Auditorium\, McGivney Hall\, on the campus of The Catholic University of America. \n\n\n\nFriday\, November 4\n\n\n6:30 p.m.\nWelcome and Opening Remarks \n\nRev. Antonio López\, F.S.C.B.\nDavid S. Crawford\n\nThe Common Good and the Nature of Political Order \n\nD.C. Schindler\, “The Dignified and the Efficient: On the Symbolic Significance of Authority”\nMark Shiffman\, “The Phenomenology of the Modern State”\nModerator: Rev. Antonio López\, F.S.C.B.\n\n\n\n\n8:30\nReception\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, November 5\n\n\n8:30 a.m.\nContinental breakfast available\n\n\n9:00\nThe Crisis of Liberalism and the Common Good \n\nMichael Hanby\, “The Negation of the Common Good”\nV. Bradley Lewis\, “Recent Magisterial Teaching on the Common Good in Light of Thomistic Controversies”\nModerator: Adrian Walker\n\n\n\n\n10:30\nBreak\n\n\n11:00\nThe Common Good and the Integrity of the Human Person   \n\nMargaret McCarthy\, “Gender and the Common Good”\nRoberta Bayer\, “Technological Rationality and the Common Good”\nModerator: Jonathan Bieler\n\n\n\n\n12:30 p.m.\nLunch\n\n\n2:00\nPolitical Order\, Authority\, & The Church’s Responsibility for the World \n\nNicholas J. Healy\, “The Sacramental Nature of Authority and the Limits of Synodality”\nAndrew Willard Jones\, “Against Sovereignty: Lessons from the Catholic Response to Absolutism in the 17th  Century”\nModerator: Joseph Atkinson\n\n\n\n\n3:30\nBreak\n\n\n4:00\nQuestions and Concluding Discussion\n\n\n\nRegistration\nOnline registration is now closed. \nIf you would like to register\, please email mrice@johnpaulii.edu to inquire about remaining spaces.
URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/the-common-good-and-the-political-order/
LOCATION:Keane Auditorium\, McGivney Hall\, 620 Michigan Avenue\, NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20064\, United States
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