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Heritage Week Celebrations

R. Wayne Kraft Memorial Lectures

This lecture series honors R. Wayne Kraft, professor of metallurgy and material science at Lehigh University and adjunct professor of philosophy at Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales (now DeSales University).  

Begun in 1995, it highlights the university's celebration of the feast of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, whose wealth of theological writings attests to the tradition of Christian Humanism that is at the heart of the university's mission and philosophy.

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2008  "Each one according to his own kind and vocation"
A Lecture on the Common Good

Rev. James Schall, S.J., Ph.D.
Georgetown University
2007  The Visionary Wisdom of Teilhard de Chardin

Carol Jean Vale, S.S.J., Ph.D.
President, Chestnut Hill College
2006
 Bishop McShea's Vision for Allentown College
40 Years Later!

Rev. Msgr. Aloysius Callaghan, J.C.D.
St. Paul (MN) Seminary & School of Divinity
2005 Can you hear me now? 
Preaching in the 21st Century

Most Rev. Joseph Kurtz, D.D.
Bishop of Knoxville, TN
2004 Biotechnology & the Human Future

William L. Saunders, Esq.
Center for Human Life & Bioethics, Family Research Council
2003  Democracy and Catholicism in Tension

Jay P. Dolan, Ph.D.
University of Notre Dame
2002  Genetics and the Challenge to Faith-Based Society

Carol Taylor, C.S.F.N., Ph.D.
Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University
2001 DeSales University: A New Era of Excellence
(academic convocation)

Very Rev. David O'Connell, C.M.
President of the Catholic University of America
2000 Ex Corde Ecclesiae and
the Mission of Catholic Higher Education 		Rev. J. Augustine Di Noia, O.P.
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
1999 Teilhard de Chardin:
Seeing Christ as a Scientist		 Prof. Thomas M. King, S.J.,
Georgetown University
1998 Jacques Maritain:
Thinking and Praying		 Prof. Ralph McInerny
University of Notre Dame
1997 Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal,
and the Ministry of Love 		Prof. Wendy Wright
Creighton University
1996 Being Catholic: Whole and Entire Rev. Msgr. George Kelly
 Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
1995 Spirituality for Urban Ministry Rev. Walter Burghardt, S.J.
Woodstock Theological Center

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