Steubenville, Ohio, Nov 12, 2009 / 02:27 am
The Pontifical Council for Culture will begin its “intentional engagement” of North America with a December conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Officials from the Pontifical Council will discuss the history of the council’s work and also the Church’s engagement with science after Darwin and Galileo.
The Pontifical Council will host a series of conferences in the U.S. and Canada to strengthen Vatican dialogue with North American audiences, Franciscan University reports. The series, titled “From Sea to Shining Sea: Faith and Culture in North America,” will have its first conference at the Steubenville, Ohio-based university from Dec. 2 to Dec. 4.
Much of the conference will consist of private meetings to lay the foundation for future gatherings, but two lectures will be open to the general public.
On Dec. 3 the undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, will deliver the Paul and Barbara Henkels Lecture. His talk is titled “The Church’s Engagement With Science After Darwin and Galileo: Overcoming Cultural Icons.”