EventsRoman Forum Summer Symposium, 2010

The Politics of Faith and Reason? Or the Triumph of the Will?

Program

Thursday, July 1st

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner at the Locanda agli Angeli

Friday, July 2nd

10:00 A.M.
John Rao
Lamennais, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Confessional State

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

6:00 P.M.
John Rao
St. Pius X, Le Sillon, l’Action Française, and Catholic Action

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

Saturday, July 3rd

10:00 A.M.
John Médaille
Benedict on Business:
Economic Order & the Principle of Gratuitousness

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Christopher Ferrara
From Montesquieu, to Holmes, to Scalia:
The Triumph of Legal Positivism over Goodness, Truth and Beauty

6:00 P.M
Brian McCall
The Drive to Codify:
Law's Departure from Faith and Reason in Post-Enlightenment Church and State


8:00 P.M.
Dinner

Sunday, July 4th

9: 00 A.M.
Solemn High Mass

10:30 A.M.
Brunch as the Locanda agli Angeli

1:00 P.M.—5 P.M.
Boat Trip on Lake Garda

7. P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner

Monday, July 5th

10:00 A.M.
Robert Moynihan
The Vatican under Benedict XVI:
Working for Catholic Truth and Order Against Enormous Odds

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Dale Ahlquist
The Glorious Side to Social Decline:
G.K. Chesterton on The New Dark Ages

6:00 P.M.
James Bogle
“And thou shalt renew the face of the earth”: Sacrum Romanum Imperium and the Ideal of Christendom from Constantine to Blessed Emperor Charles

8:00 P.M.
Dinner and Ballo Liscio in Piazza

Tuesday, July 6th

10:00 A.M.

John Rao
Marxism, Fascism, and the Catholic Personalist Temptation (1918-1950)
11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula
The Problem of Christian Democracy

7:00 P.M.
Dinner in the Piazza
Alpini Chorus from La Rocca

Wednesday, July 7th

10:00 A.M.
John Rao
The Post-War Church:
Trapped in a Marxist and Americanist-Pluralist Maze

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Michael Matt
The Serious Catholic Press:
Serving the Truth & Surviving in a Pluralist, Blogging, Information-Crazed Universe

6:00 P.M.
All Speakers: Questions and Panel Discussion
Current Obstacles to the Catholic Vision of Social Justice & International Order

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

Thursday, July 8th

Departure for All Day Excursions After Breakfast

9:00 P.M.
Dinner

Friday, July 9th

10:00 A.M.
Fr. Richard Munkelt
From Nominalism to the Corruption of the Polis: A Philosophical Examination of the Intimate Connection Between Ideas and Daily Life
11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Jeffrey Bond
Swift on Modernity: A Confederacy of Dunces

6:00 P.M.
Fr. Gregory Pendergraft
Religious Life and Pastoral Work: Problems of Forming a Catholic
Clergy and Laity in a World Opposed to Faith and Reason

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner

Saturday, July 10th

10:00 A.M.
Miguel Ayuso
Carlism: One Catholic Answer to the Anglo-American Political Vision

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.

All Speakers: Questions and Panel Discussion
The Pluralist Threat to Theology, Philosophy, Social Life, and the Arts

6:00 P.M.
John Rao
Bringing the Light of Faith & Reason into the Dark & Willful Pluralist Cave


8:00 P.M.
Dinner

Sunday, July 11th

9:00 A.M.
Solemn High Mass

10:30 A.M.
Brunch at the Locanda agli Angeli


1:00 P.M.—5 P.M.
Excursion to Monte Baldo

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party
Dinner at the Locanda agli Angeli
Song and General Merriment

Monday, July 12th

Departure

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Specific Lecture Slots Subject to Change
Other Lecturers May Still Be Added to the Program