Center for Social Concerns
Bridge Across the Continents in Fellowship with the Poor
Keynote Speaker Cardinal Charles Maung Bo, S.D.B., Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar talks on the topic of “Bridge Across the Continents in Fellowship with the Poor”. This keynote...
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The Option for the Poor and Christian Theology
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P., professor emertus of theology at the University of Notre Dame, is well known as the one of the foundational thinkers of liberation theology. In this...
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Challenges to Poverty Eradication in the 21st Century: Insights from Catholic Social Thought
Professor Charles Clark was a keynote speaker at the 2019 Catholic Social Tradition conference, sponsored by the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. The...
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From “Option for the Poor” to Option by the Poor: Flint’s Water and the Problem of Political Will
This talk was given at the Catholic Social Tradition Conference in 2019.
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Study of Groundwater Contaminants Leads to New Funding for Community Crowdsensing Research
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have received $1.46 million from the National Science Foundation to expand a previous study of private, self-supplied water systems...
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Pathways
A Notre Dame researcher discusses the relationship between the built environment and our habits, especially our eating habits. And, as hundreds seek a path to asylum in Italy...
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Reawakening the American Heart
The Center for Social Concerns’ 2018–19 annual theme was “Moving Margins: Living the Option for the Poor,” which examined how God calls us to give priority to the most...
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Fighting For Fair Housing
It has been 50 years since the Fair Housing Act made discrimination in buying and selling homes illegal. Fifty years since Edward Brooke, the first African-American senator from...
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Five Years of Pope Francis’ Papacy: Panel Discussion on Geopolitical, Ecumenical, and Cultural Perspectives
At the end of Pope Francis’ first five years in the papacy, this panel evaluates how he is calling the Church to encounter a deeper human experience by valuing diversity through...
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The Challenge of Peace Pursued Through Christian-Muslim Dialogue
Scott Alexander, Ph.D. and Imam Hassan Al-Qazwini engage the 2017–18 Center for Social Concerns annual theme, Living the Challenge of Peace, by discussing how peace and justice...
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Today’s Struggle for Racial and Economic Justice
Fred Redmond, international vice president of United Steelworkers (USW), delivers the 36th McBride Lecture, a biennial event sponsored by the Higgins Labor Program and Center for...
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Catholic Relief Services Agency Panel
Kim Lamberty, director of university and mission engagement for Catholic Relief Services, leads this panel discussion which addresses the intersection between integral human...
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