This year, once again, we will be celebrating our annual Thomas Toast event online on January 28th at 7:00pm, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas. You are invited to join us as we read together and discuss a short tribute to Thomas given by Pope Benedict XVI at one of his audiences.
If you want an advanced look, the Thomas tribute can be found here.
Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, January 14th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Joseph Ratzinger’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture” by Tracey Rowland from the Summer 2021 Edition (Volume 48.2) of Communio entitled “Faith and Culture”. The PDF can be downloaded from here.
Continue readingOur next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, December 10th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Dialogue with Professor David L. Schindler on Conscience, Moral Theology, and Modernity” by Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler as well as “Conscience, Moral Theology, and Modernity: A Reply to Professors Salzman and Lawler” by David L. Schindler from the Winter 2020 (Volume 47.4) issue of Communio entitled “Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Karol Wojtyła”.
Continue readingOur next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, November 12th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “I Can Only Be Understood From Within: Introducing The English Critical Edition of the Works of JPII” by Antonio López from the Winter 2020 (Volume 47.4) issue of Communio entitled “Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Karol Wojtyła”.
Continue readingI invite you to join us for our study day on October 16th from 9:30am to 12:30pm. We will be discussing “The Bishop’s Dilemma: From Surveillance Capitalism to Digital Distributism” by Mark Maguire and Charles Fernandes.
We plan to hold an outdoor hybrid meeting at the Newman Centre Guelph, 325 Gordon Street, Guelph. If weather does not permit meeting outdoors, we will meet in Newman House. Please bring a mask.
Continue readingIn order to provide some spacing between our meeting and our upcoming study day on October 16th, our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, October 1st, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Ratzinger’s Reception of Newman on Conscience: Memory, History, Creation, and Christ” by Donald G. Graham from the Winter 2020 (Volume 47.4) issue of Communio entitled “Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Karol Wojtyła”.
Continue readingOur next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, September 10th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Catechesis in the Patristic Tradition” by Jean Daniéloufrom the Fall 2020 (Volume 47.3) issue of Communio entitled “Love as a Form of Life”.
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It is with sadness for our loss as well as gratitude for his friendship and ministry that I inform you of the sudden and unexpected death of Father John Redmond, a long-time member of our Communio circle, on Saturday, August 7th. Please pray for the repose of his soul and the consolation of his family, in particular, for Mary, Charles and Mae Fernandes, who are also long-time Communio members.
Father John will be greatly missed. May he rest in peace.
Father Mark Morley
Our next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, August 13th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “Et verbum caro factum est: An Intro-duction to the Philosophical Life” by Andrew J. Jaeger from the Fall 2020 (Volume 47.3) issue of Communio entitled “Love as a Form of Life”.
Continue readingOur next monthly meeting will be held on Friday, July 9th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. We will be discussing “The Upward Pursuit of Happiness in Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum” by Jonathan Bieler from the Summer 2020 (Volume 47.2) issue of Communio entitled “Happiness, Love, and Friendship”.
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