Father Jenkins to give keynote address at King’s College conference on Catholic education | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Father Jenkins to give keynote address at King’s College conference on Catholic education Father Jenkins to give keynote address at King’s College conference on Catholic education Published: September 12, 2014 Author: Michael O. Garvey Notre Dame’s president, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., will give the keynote address at a conference on the mission of Catholic colleges and universities in higher education Sept. 19 (Friday) at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The two-day conference, entitled “The Idea of a Catholic College: Charism, Curricula, and Community,” will include speakers from Boston University, St. Mary’s College of California, the University of Portland, Gonzaga University, St. Edward’s University and the University of Scranton. In addition to members of the King’s College faculty, administration, and board of directors, the event will bring together more than 100 faculty members and administrators from Catholic institutions of higher education nationwide. Its proceedings will be published in the Journal of Catholic Higher Education. At King’s College, Father Jenkins will be speaking on a topic familiar and dear to him. Earlier this year, addressing an academic convocation held in Rome to dedicate the University’s new Notre Dame Rome Center, he alluded to St. Pope John Paul II’s 1990 apostolic letter on the mission of Catholic universities, “Ex Corde Ecclesiae” (“Born from the Heart of the Church”). “Perhaps,” Father Jenkins said, “the deeper reason why universities were ‘born from the heart of the Church’—why they arose in the thoroughly Catholic culture of faith in Europe in the Middle Ages—was the shared conviction that God made humans in his image and likeness and gave us minds that could understand the world, and people believed that sustained, cooperative inquiry by dedicated scholars would be fruitful. These beliefs gave rise to the creation of universities, institutions dedicated to inquiry into and teaching of the highest truths about the world.” Notre Dame was proud to participate in that tradition, Father Jenkins said, “and strives to be a living institutional witness to the harmony of faith and reason. Yet it will only be such a witness if its physicists and philosophers, its economists and engineers, and all its scholars engage in inquiries and make discoveries that are at the very highest level. If our scholarly work is inferior to our secular peers, we will fail to witness to our confidence in the intelligibility of God’s world, and to our commitment to using the gifts God has given us to understanding it.” The keynote address by Father Jenkins will also be this year’s Moreau Lecture, an annual event sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross at King’s, which brings renowned theologians and philosophers to the King’s campus to address issues of social justice, ethics and Catholic identity. Father Jenkins is the 36th speaker in the history of the Moreau Lectures Series, which is named in honor of Blessed Father Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Contact: John McAndrew, (570) 208-5958 Posted In: Faith Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related October 03, 2022 dCEC to Award 2023 ND Evangelium Vitae Medal to Robert P. George September 22, 2022 In memoriam: Rev. Richard Warner, C.S.C., longtime leader for Notre Dame, Congregation of Holy Cross September 15, 2022 In new book on global Catholicism, Provost John McGreevy explores modern history, current challenges of the Church September 15, 2022 Death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean to speak at Notre Dame September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn