The Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal’s 2025 Aquinas Conference at Ave Maria University. I will give a keynote on the loss of metaphysics and its implications.
The COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture’s convocation of student leaders explores the question “Where are we now?”
Man and Woman and the Order of Creation Conference
I will give a keynote on “Rahner and Ratzinger on the Trinity.”
“One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic? Championing the Marks of the Church in an Age of Polarization and Ecclesial Confusion.” I will speak on “The Marks of the Body.”
I will give a keynote: “Is Modern Identity Really Progress?”
A panel with Erika Bachiochi and Rachel Coleman
The 2024 Thomas Lecture in Philosophy and Theology
A panel on Mary Harrington’s work, with Nina Power, Rachel Coleman, Abigail Favale, and Adrian Walker.
On the transition from pre-modern to modern views of the embodied person
For the Nova Forum of Catholic Thought at the University of Southern California
Keynote for The New Ressourcement conference
Keynote for conference: Human Action and the Drama of Accompaniment: The 30th Anniversary of Veritatis Splendor.
Academy for Catholic Theology
I will present on “Liquid Identity and the Sacred Liturgy: The Problem of Experience in Modernity.”
Does Mariology have anything to contribute to our understanding of the body? Dr. Franks will argue that Mary's poverty--that she "let all God's glory through," to quote Gerard Manley Hopkins--is exemplary for what the body contributes in the structure of the person.
For
A “Theology and Culture” Lecture
We are told that our gender is fluid. How true is this? What is the reality and purpose of our bodies? Is there any truth to "fluidity"? What does any of this have to do with God? I will present a theology of the gendered body and discuss the truth and the limits of the idea of “fluidity.”
This is my second lecture as Visiting Catholic Scholar at Benedictine University-Mesa. It will be available on Zoom; register via Ramon Luzarraga at rluzarraga@ben.edu.
This is my first lecture as Visiting Catholic Scholar at Benedictine University-Mesa. It will be available on Zoom; register via Ramon Luzarraga at rluzarraga@ben.edu.
A lecture at The Morningside Institute, Columbia University.
Come hear me speak on “Redemption of Our Bodies”!
I will discuss Margaret Sanger's eugenic mindset, how that influenced Planned Parenthood, and how St. John Paul II's theology of the body provides an anthropological corrective for our troubled times. Bob Dunn will also update us on life-related legislation in New Hampshire.
Come read the text of Pope St. John Paul II’s theology of the body with me this summer!
Sponsored by the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, Mass.
