Cardinal Müller among speakers at fall conference of Center for Ethics and Culture | 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 › Cardinal Müller among speakers at fall conference of Center for Ethics and Culture Cardinal Müller among speakers at fall conference of Center for Ethics and Culture Published: October 22, 2014 Author: Michael O. Garvey Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Nobel laureate economist James J. Heckman will be among the speakers at the 15th annual fall conference of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture Oct. 30-Nov.1 (Thursday-Saturday). The conference, “Your Light Will Rise in Darkness: Responding to the Cry of the Poor,” will take as its theme an admonition made by Pope Francis in his address last year to the Archbishop of Canterbury. “Among our tasks as witnesses to the love of Christ,” Pope Francis said, “is that of giving a voice to the cry of the poor.” According to O. Carter Snead, William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, conference participants will explore questions related to the human meaning of poverty and how to care rightly for the poor in the contexts of philosophy, theology, political theory, law, history, economics, the social sciences, the biosciences, literature and the arts. “We at the center are proud to follow the Holy Father’s lead and seriously engage the question of poverty and the poor,” Snead said. “As we do every year, we have gathered the foremost Catholic thinkers, as well as those from other traditions, to grapple together with this issue from a variety of disciplines and points of view.” In addition to Cardinal Müller and Heckman, conference keynote speakers will include Alasdair MacIntyre, Rev. John A. O’Brien Senior Research Professor of Philosophy, and John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law at Notre Dame. An opening Mass for the conference will be celebrated at 5:15 p.m. Oct. 30 (Thursday) in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend will preside. All other conference sessions, which are free and open to the public, will be held in Notre Dame’s McKenna Hall, and the full conference schedule is available online here. Contact: Stephen Freddoso, Center for Ethics and Culture, 574-631-3192, sfreddos@nd.edu 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