Lecture Series

Over the years, the Newman Centre has sponsored several major lecture series that have allowed the church to dialogue with the modern world via the university. The Lecture Series have been on the themes of the Legacy of Vatican II; The Jurisdiction of the Church; The Dream of Cardinal Newman. The Newman Centre has brought in renowned guest speakers in an attempt to present and engage the important issues of our day. Speakers of the past have included:

• Fr. Gordon Rixon S.J., Dean of Regis College
• John F. Haught, Ph. D, Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University
• Very Rev. the Hon. Lois M. Wilson, CC, Minister in Residence, Emmanuel College, President of the World Council of Churches (1983-1990)
• His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
• Archbishop Renato Martino, Vatican Nuncio to the United Nations
• The late Fr. Henri Nouwen
• Fr. Donald Senior, C.P.
• Bishop Matthew Clark
• Sr. Margaret Brennan, I.H.M.
• Sr. Ellen Leonard, C.S.J.
• Sr. Helen Prejean, C.S.J., (author of Dead Man Walking)
• His Eminence Pio Cardinal Laghi, head of the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education
• His Eminence William Cardinal Keeler
• Renowned liturgist and composer Fr. Michael Joncas
• Fr. Philip Murnion
• Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
• Fr. Ron Rolheiser, O.M.I.
• Fr. Justin Taylor, S.M.
• Noted Canadian Journalist, Richard Gwyn
• Fr. Scott M. Lewis, S.J.
• Sr. Nuala Keys, S.C.
• Emmy Award Filmmaker, Ann Petrie
• Vatican Correspondent, John Allen Jr.
• Rabbi Dow Marmur, Holy Blossom Temple, Toronto
• Myles Sheehan, Gerontologist, Professor of Medicine
• Michael Czerny, SJ, African Jesuit AIDS Network
• Dr. Kate Gillespie, MD, Clinical Director, Northern Ireland
• Sue Mosteller, CSJ, L'Arche Toronto coordinator
• Prof. George V. Coyne, S.J., Astronomer, Vatican Observatory
• For an interview and additional commentary by Fr. Coyne, please click here
• Sr. Elaine MacInnes, O.L.M., Spiritual Author and Prison Activist
  And many Canadian Bishops, Jewish Rabbis, Muslim leaders and people from the worlds of the arts, culture and politics, to name but a few.