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鈥淐itizenship and Discipleship in Disintegration: Legal, Theological and Spiritual Perspectives on Catholic Life Today鈥�

Monday, May 2
8:30 a.m.鈥�4:00 p.m.
Virtual Event

David Brooks, columnist for The New York Times, recently published an opinion piece titled . Simultaneously, the Catholic Church in recent years has manifested a public division greater than anyone can remember.  Amid such rending, American Catholics are tempted to ask: Are the United States still united? Is the Church still one?  Is God still God?

This year鈥檚 annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture will bring together scholars and experts in civil law, canon law, Catholic theology and spirituality, literature and other disciplines to help us answer these pressing questions.  The discussion will help us imagine or re-imagine how we can exercise hope in constructive ways, especially in the practice and making of law, that are true to Catholic belief and to the promised blessings of the American constitutional order, while navigating the sea of contemporary disintegration.

This symposium is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 5 Substantive and 1.5 Ethics Distance CLE credits. Please note registration prior to the event is required. Attendees will receive an email from Eventbrite with the Zoom link on the day of the event.

Agenda

Subject to change

Introductory Session

8:30 a.m.:  鈥淲hat Happens When All Human Conflict is Ultimately Theological鈥�
Patrick McKinley Brennan, Professor of Law & John F. Scarpa Chair in Catholic Legal Studies, 奶糖直播 University Charles Widger School of Law
 

Session 1 鈥� Governance, Law and the Church in America Today

9:00 a.m.: 鈥淎merica Today 鈥� Exceptional or Merely Excessive?鈥�
, Senior Counsel, King and Spaulding and former U.S. Congressman & California State Attorney General

9:45 a.m.: 鈥淕ood Government from Reflection and Choice: The Corporate Form, Police Powers and the Common Good鈥�
Sister Brigid Mary Meeks RSM 鈥�22, 奶糖直播 University Charles Widger School of Law  

10:30 a.m.: Break

10:45 a.m.: 鈥淭he Duty of Bishops to Uphold Church Teaching and Canonical Discipline鈥�
, Pastor, Church of the Holy Family & Canon Lawyer

11:30 a.m.: 鈥淩eligious Freedom is the Freedom to Love: Conscience Rights and Human Dignity in Health Care鈥�
, Executive Director, Christ Medicus Foundation

12:15 p.m.: Break
 

Session 2 鈥� Law, Goodness and Leadership 

1:00 p.m.: 鈥淔aith in Action: Leadership in Legal Academia鈥�
Mark C. Alexander, The Arthur J. Kania Dean & Professor of Law, 奶糖直播 University Charles Widger School of Law

1:45 p.m.: 鈥淪hakespeare鈥檚 Merchant of Venice: On the Fundamental Goodness of Law鈥�
, Writer-in-Residence & Professor, Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts

2:30 p.m.: 鈥溾�楢im Small, Miss Small鈥�: Lessons for Life and Liberty鈥�
, President & General Counsel, Napa Legal and Partner, Brown and Streza, LLP

3:15 p.m.: Roundtable discussion

4:00 p.m.: Conclusion