Schedule

(at Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice, 2065 rue Sherbrooke O., all times approximate)

8:30 – Meet & Greet; coffee/tea and snacks will be served

8:50 – Welcoming Remarks (General Secretary Jaime A. Mora, p.s.s., and Dr. André Gagné, Chair Theological Studies)

9:00 – Session 1: Ethics & Spirituality

Moderated by Sara Terreault

    Ridge Shukrun – Towards an Authentic Secular Spirituality

    Brian Almeida – For a Sacramental Anthropology: New Frontier in the Liturgical Sciences

    Gabriel Casola – Certain Contributions to Christian Spirituality by Thomas Aquinas

    Group Q & A

Coffee Break

11:00 – Session 2 : Historical Theology

Moderated by Nandom Gunen 

    Efstathios Fokas – Thomas Becket: Defender of the Church, Scourge of the English Reformation

    Carmelo Tartaro – L'Évangile de Nicodème: une catabase chrétienne

    Group Q & A

11:45 – Lunch (provided) and Library Tours with Patrick Dionne

13:15 – Faith and Scholarship - An Exploration in Conversation - A Panel Discussion Moderated by MFSC's Rev. Jennifer Bourque

14:15 – Session 3: Religion, Politics, and Society

Moderated by Ernest Okyere-Twum

    Jason Piché – Aum Shinrikyo and the Myth of Religious Violence

    Christopher Dagher – Catholic and Evangelical End-Time Theologies and their Socio-political Importance

    Matthew Shanahan – Religion as an Accessible Public Good and the Tyranny of Laicité

    Group Q & A

Coffee Break

    Teri Di Gennaro – Exploring Far-Right Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, and her Grievances, using a Comparative Approach within a Feminist Framework

    Zackari Bourgeois – Laugh and the Lord Laughs With You: The Neo-Tribal Theology of r/DankChristianMemes

    Group Q & A

16:15 – Keynote Address by Dr. Richard Bernier - Impossible Things Before Breakfast: on the uselessness of studing theology

17:45 – Leave for Restuarant