The Mary Ward Lecture - The Synod on Synodality: Understanding our Ecclesial Times The Mary Ward Lecture is a distinguished event organized every year by The Margaret Beaufort Institute, which seeks to illuminate the complexities and richness of our faith and its expression in contemporary society. You can join us in this event to delve into a topic of profound significance for the Catholic Church and its faithful across the globe: "The Synod on Synodality: Understanding our Ecclesial Times." This lecture will reflect on the major themes that have emerged from the Synod on Synodality, and offer some critical reflections [...]

In person and Online The course will introduce students to the mystery of the Incarnation, the Person and Natures in Christ (including major heresies to be avoided), Christ’s grace and knowledge, his unity of being, unity of two wills and two operations, his prayer, Christ as priest and mediator, certain mysteries of Christ’s life such as his baptism and Transfiguration, as well as his passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and coming again as judge. This course will primarily utilize St. Thomas’s Summa theologiae, and will include opportunities for discussion and questions. This course will be recorded and the course material will [...]

This interactive, interdisciplinary course is designed to explore ethical concepts as they form, relate and critique a particular professional context, with a view to helping students develop their own foundations and tools for reasoning about their own professional ethics. Elements such as sources of ethical thinking and moral imagination; central concepts such as equality, common good, human dignity; the value and spirituality of work; the role of ethics in society, all contribute to the theological context in which a particular profession will be approached. Various case studies will be introduced throughout the course in order to address these questions and [...]