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Last Updated: June 27, 2006

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From Death to Life: Agendas for Reform

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From Death to Life

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture invited all to the campus of the University of Notre Dame for its third annual conference, "From Death to Life: Agendas for Reform." This year's gathering focused on concrete proposals for building a culture of life in our current social context. The overarching goal of the conference was to bring scholars and students together to articulate the hopeful moral vision expressed in Pope John Paul II's encyclicals, Veritatis Splendor, Evangelium Vitae, and Centesimus Annus.

This event promised to continue the tradition of diverse topics, speakers, and audience members that has been established at the previous two conferences in this series. The conference began on the evening of Thursday, September 26, and concluded on Saturday evening with a mass at the Basilica and a banquet at the conference center. Registration began at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday in the lobby of the Center for Continuing Education.

Conference sessions addressed a wide range of issues, including:

  • Possibilities for reform of contemporary institutions and practices such as medicine, education, politics, commerce, the family, the arts, and the natural sciences
  • The promises and dangers of technological advancement
  • The public-private distinction and its relevance to cultural reform
  • Efforts to encourage diversity in religious and secular institutions
  • Historical examples or studies of reform
  • The prospects for and resources of developing nations
  • Responsibilities to the poor and oppressed
  • Possibilities for peace and reconciliation in war-torn areas
  • The current crisis in the priesthood
  • The requirements of civic virtue
 
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