Learn more and register here 2025 Catholic Social Tradition Conference Signs of the Times: Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism March 20-22, 2025 This 2025 CST conference will remember the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World) and Dignitatis humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom). Released on the final day of Vatican II, these texts together invited serious consideration of the role of the church and other religious communities in relation to the state. This year’s CST conference takes up Vatican II’s invitation to discern “the signs of the times” and to attend to the roles of church and state within civil society with a view toward the common good. These central CST themes warrant further exploration as Christian and other forms of religious nationalism represent a significant sign of the current time in particular national and international contexts. This interdisciplinary conference invites historical, constructive, and comparative approaches as we consider the ecumenical, interfaith, and transdisciplinary challenges of religious nationalism. For example, what is the history of Christian nationalism in the United States and how is it related to similar movements in other parts of the world? What are the scriptural and theological resources available to analyze these expressions of Christian and national identity? To what degree and under what forms are the academy and the Christian churches complicit with the history and recent expressions of white Christian nationalism? What are the possible connections between the reemergence of various forms of religious nationalism with economic changes, poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation? How has the rise of these political ideologies been facilitated by changes in laws and institutional structures? What are the implications of Christian and other forms of religious nationalism for the relationship of religious bodies and the state in civil society? What are the pedagogical challenges across the disciplines in addressing the significance of Christian and religious nationalism? Normatively, what options for constructive engagement and responses emerge from our shared consideration of these questions?

Join the Notre Dame Children's Choirs as we observe this Lenten season in eight liturgies over 25 hours, beginning and ending with Vespers at 6 p.m. with liturgies every three hours (except 6 a.m.). The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office or the Work of God, is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of the day and sanctifying the day with prayer (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops). The Divine Office is also considered the public service of praise and worship consisting of Psalms, prayers, hymns and readings.St. Joseph Chapel at Holy Cross CollegeOriginally published at sma.nd.edu.

Thanks to the wonderful partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, the Notre Dame Staff of International Descent (NDSID) invites everyone to a private viewing of the 2018 documentary film of Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987.   Join the NDSID in learning about Notre Dame's long-time president and recognize one of the most important civic and educational leaders of the 20th century.   Admission is free. Doors will opent at 11:30 am. Open to staff, faculty, friends and family of Notre Dame. Originally published at internationalerg.nd.edu.

New at the BrowningDirected by Walter SallesWith Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda MontenegroRated PG-13, 137 minutes, DCPIn Portuguese with English subtitlesPanel discussion to follow Saturday's 6:30 p.m. screening.BRAZIL, 1971: Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres, who won a Golden Globe for her performance), a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book, the film tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil's hidden history. Thursday, March 20—Sunday, March 23, various times. GET TICKETS

New at the BrowningDirected by Walter SallesWith Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda MontenegroRated PG-13, 137 minutes, DCPIn Portuguese with English subtitlesPanel discussion to follow Saturday's 6:30 p.m. screening.BRAZIL, 1971: Brazil faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres, who won a Golden Globe for her performance), a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book, the film tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil's hidden history. Thursday, March 20—Sunday, March 23, various times. GET TICKETS

New at the BrowningDirected by Matthew RankinWith Matthew Rankin, Pirouz Nemati, Rojina EsmaeiliNot Rated, 89 minutes, DCPIn French and Persian with English subtitles.In a mysterious and surreal interzone somewhere between Tehran and Winnipeg, the lives of multiple characters interweave with each other in surprising and mysterious ways. Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother. Space, time and personal identities crossfade, interweave and echo into a surreal comedy of misdirection. GET TICKETS