Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, Creighton’s Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair, The Center for Catholic Thought and the Department of Theology are sponsoring a four-year lecture and event series.
This series of lectures, films and events is focusing on the meaning and impact of the Second Vatican Council. The most recent lecture took place on Monday. According to theology profesor Wendy Wright, this particular lecture will focus on Mary and the Second Vatican Council.
“Mary is present in the church as well as being a model of faith and charity,” Wright said.
Wright said the question of Mary in relation to the church was brought up in the discussion at the Second Vatican Council. It was originally intended to have a separate document on Mary, but there was a movement to include her in the document on the church.
“Mary was a primary figure of what it meant to be Catholic,” Wright said.
The lecture about Mary was the fourth lecture in the series, completing one year of lectures. According to the inaugural holder of the Barbara Reardon Heaney Chair in Pastoral Liturgical Theology, Eileen Burke-Sullivan, just as the Council itself had taken four years to accomplish, Creighton is taking four years to study, discuss and teach the Second Vatican Council as an exceptionally important event in the history of the church.
The series will continue to explore the documents that came out of the discussions at the Council, such as Lumen Gentium, and continue to invite experts and scholars from around the world to share with us their insights into the Council and its outcomes in multiple cultures.
In the upcoming years, the various lectures, convocations, seminars, courses, films and other events would include how the Second Vatican Council changed liturgy and worship. There will also be scholars from different areas of the world to discuss how the Council affected religion in their culture. There will be scholars from different areas of the world to discuss how the council affected religion in their culture. Burke-Sullivan encourages all students to attend and participate in these events over the next couple years.