January 10, 2023

Written by ICTC
January 10, 2023
Fr. Pat O'Leary

New Year’s, like Lent, is an opportunity to step back and reflect on our life, our life choices, and the direction we want to move towards. While we are very hopeful and energized by possibilities of a new year, we begin this year with a heavy heart, having lost one of our most beloved colleagues. Fr. Pat O'Leary served as a companion, teacher, spiritual director and formation director for so many people. It is my hope this year that we can embrace and carry with us the love and the wisdom that he shared with us, as ICTC continues our theme on "A Journey Towards Healing and Reconciliation." We hope you will be able to join us in our programming.

Our winter Catholic Heritage Lecture is February 9 with Fr. Bryan Massingale, professor at Fordham University, whose talk is titled "A Spirituality of Racial Metanoia." In keeping with our commitment to lift up the best of our Catholic intellectual tradition, we follow the Catholic Heritage lecture with a reading group on the book Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy, led by SU faculty members Drs. Michael Jaycox, Jason Wirth and Jessica Imanaka. It is our commitment and our pleasure to create these conceptual spaces for faculty and staff to come together and engage with current topics.

- Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez, ICTC Executive Director

 

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