The Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies

[ April 7, 2010; 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. ] ~~
The Gerber Institute will present a lecture by author Paula Huston, author of Forgiveness: Following Jesus into Radical Loving and several other spiritual works, at 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 7 in the Dugan-Gorges Conference Center, inside the Dugan Library and Campus Center on the Newman Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

We now have video clips available of all four speakers from the Gerber Institute’s January 26 panel discussion on reconciliation and the death penalty.

Father James Billinger, Kristi Smith, Sue Norton, and Therese Bangert, SCL spoke at a Jan. 26 discussion hosted by the Gerber Institute for Catholic Studies at Newman University called “Reconciliation and the Death Penalty: What is the Way Forward?”

[ January 26, 2010; 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ] Issues to be addressed include an overview of the history of the death penalty in Kansas and of the current legislative initiative to abolish the death penalty in Kansas, the Catholic Church’s stance on the issue of capital punishment, the perspectives of those who – having lost family members to murder – nevertheless oppose the death penalty, and the nature of and possibilities for healing and reconciliation, as individuals, families, and a society, in the wake of such traumas.