October 29 – 31, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
7:00 p.m. Public Forum: Mr. Dale Ahlquist
President of the American Chesterton Society, Minneapolis, MN
“The Universe and Other Little Things: Chesterton on Creation”
O’Shaughnessy Auditorium
Friday, October 30, 2009
8:00 a.m. Registration
Owens Science Building, North Entrance
9:00 a.m. Welcome: Monsignor Aloysius Callaghan, Rector of the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity
Plenary Session I:
Dr. Christopher Thompson (Academic Dean of the St. Paul Seminary)
"Perennial Wisdom: Notes toward a Green Thomism"
Mr. James Ennis (Executive Director of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference)
3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Building
10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions
Christian Realism & Stewardship OWS 257
Moderator: Dr. Phil Rolnick
10:30 a.m. Dr. Matthew Cuddeback, (Providence College, Providence)
“John Paul II and Thomas Aquinas on Man’s participated Dominion of the Earth”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Deborah Savage, (The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity,
St. Paul)
“Christian Realism as the Foundation of Both a Sound Economy and Environmental Stewardship”
11:30 a.m. Dr. Christopher Blum, (St. Thomas More Humanities College,
Merrimack)
“On the Recovery of Experience and the Search for a Christian Environmentalism”
Sin, Suffering, Grace OWS 250
Moderator: Dr. Stephen Hipp
10:30 a.m. Dr. David Cloutier, (Mount St. Mary’s, Emmitsburg)
“Naming Environmental Sins: Aquinas’ Account of Sin as a Resource for Catholic Stewardship”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Shawn Colberg,
(Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame)
“God as Maximally Good: Creation, Divine Providence, and Human Action in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas”
11:30 a.m. Fr. Robert Grant, (St. Ambrose University, Davenport)
“Redistributive Suffering: A Passion for the Earth”
The Role of the Family & Domestic Prudence OWS 275
Moderator: Dr. Janet Smith
10:30 a.m. Rev. Monsignor James Anderson,
(University of St. Thomas at St. Mary’s Seminary, Houston)
“The Human Person as Created in the Image of God and Steward of Visible Creation”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Greg Coulter, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul)
“John Paul II: Human Ecology and the Family”
11:30 a.m. Mr. Paul Monson (Marquette University, Milwaukee)
"The Flat & the Family: Christopher Dawson's Critique of Urbanization"
12:15 p.m. Lunch at Binz Refectory
1:15 p.m. Plenary Session II
Dr. Kenneth Schmitz, (Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto)
“Towards the Reciprocity of Man and Nature: Receptivity, Normativity and
Procreativity”
3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Building
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
Stewardship & the Body OWS 257
Moderator: Dr. Greg Coulter
2:30 p.m. Dr. Janet Smith, (Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit)
“The Meanings of Nature”
3:00 p.m. Dr. Paul Gondreau, (Providence College, Providence)
“Dieting with St. Thomas: Natural Law, the Environment, and Wholesome Nutrition”
3:30 p.m. Professor David Deavel, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul)
“The Gift of Wonder: Chestertonian Resources for Creation Stewardship”
The Trinity and the Order of Creation OWS 275
Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Laske
2:30 p.m. Mr. Gregorio Montejo, (Marquette University, Milwaukee)
“The Goodness of Creation in the Trinitarian Theologies of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas”
3:00 p.m. Sr. Damien Marie Savino, (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
“St. Thomas and Bonaventure on Creation: Comparing their Wisdom”
3:30 p.m. Dr. Stephen Hipp, (The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, St.
Paul)
“The Dynamism of the Created Order as Rooted in the Dynamism of the Triune God”
Metaphysics and Creation OWS 250
Moderator: Professor Faith Pawl
2:30 p.m. Dr. Eric Boos, (University of Wisconsin, Fond du Lac)
“The Ontological Aspects of Stewardship from a Thomistic Perspective: Developing a Catholic Paradigm for Sustainability”
3:00 p.m. Ms. Kimberly Henkel,
(Doctoral Candidate, Catholic University of America, Washington
D.C.)
“The Impact of the “Real Distinction” on the Interiority of Nature”
3:30 p.m. Dr. Phil Rolnick, (The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, St.
Paul)
“Evolution, Creation, and Christian Love”
4:45 pm Holy Mass, St. Mary’s Chapel
6:00 p.m. Reception
Binz Refectory, West Dining Room
6:30 p.m. Dinner
Binz Refectory, West Dining Room
7:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Professor Joseph Pearce, (Ave Maria University, Naples)
“Small is Good. Small is Beautiful. Small is Necessary.”
Binz Refractory, West Dining Room
Saturday October 31, 2009
9:00 a.m. Plenary Session III
Mr. Stratford Caldecott, (Center for Faith and Culture at Plater College,
Oxford)
“At Home in the Cosmos: The Revealing of the Sons of God”
3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Building
Owen Science Building OWS 150
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Breakout Sessions
Creation & Stewardship OWS 257
Moderator: Professor David Deavel
10:30 a.m. Mr. Matthew Whelan, (Duke University, Durham)
“St Thomas Aquinas and Catholic Agrarianism”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Marie George, (St. John’s University, Queens)
“Aquinas and Environmental Stewardship”
11:30 a.m. Dr. John Cuddeback, (Christendom College, Front Royal)
“Renewing Husbandry: Wendell Berry, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas”
Stewardship & Liturgy OWS 275
Moderator: Mr. James Ennis
10:30 a.m. Dr. Jennifer Laske, (Mount Mary College, Milwaukee)
“The Gift of Stewardship: A Thomistic Framework for Articulating Human Participation in God’s Ongoing Creative Activity”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Christina Strafaci,
(St. Mary’s High School & University of the Incarnate, Phoenix)
“They have no …water? Marian (Re)consideration of Dominion in the
New Eden”
11:30 a.m. Ms. Ann Hanincik, (Archdiocese of Philadelphia)
“Heaven and Earth are filled with Your Glory: The Liturgical Dimension of Care for the Earth”
Property and the Moral Significance of Non-Rational Creatures OWS 250
Moderator: Dr. Robert Gronski, NCRLC
10:30 a.m. Mr. Jason Adkins, J.D. (Institute for Justice, Minnesota)
“Thomas on Takings: The Use and Abuse of Eminent Domain”
11:00 a.m. Dr. Martin Tracey, (Benedictine University, Lisle)
“A Thomistic Perspective on Species Preservation”
11:30 a.m. Professor Faith Pawl, (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul)
“Aquinas on the Moral Significance of Pity for Animals”
12:00 p.m. Lunch at Binz Refectory
1:15 p.m. Plenary Session IV
Fr. Charles Morerod, ( Angelicum University, Italy)
“A World of Natures and the Presence of God”
3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Building
2:15 p.m. Break
3:00 p.m. Plenary Session V
Dr. Steven Long, (Ave Maria University, Naples)
"Thomistic Reflections on the Cosmos, Man and Stewardship"
3M Auditorium in the Owens Science Building
5:00 p.m. Mass
St. Mary’s Chapel, The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity
6:15 p.m. Reception and Dinner
Murray Herrick, Rogge Dining Hall (North Campus)
7:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Bishop Frank Dewane, (Bishop of Venice, Florida)
"Pope Benedict XVI: Ecology, God's Creation, and Redemption"
Murray Herrick, Rogge Dining Hall (North Campus)
