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For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America
ICYMI: Our panel discussion on James O'Toole's latest book, For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America, is now available on our YouTube channel.
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06.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sabbath & Leisure as Remedy for Modernity: A Dialogue Between Abraham Joshua Heschel & Josef Pieper
Our luncheon colloquium featuring Elliott Jones on "Sabbath & Leisure as Remedy for Modernity: A Dialogue Between Abraham Joshua Heschel and Josef Pieper" is now available on our YouTube channel.
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05.11.2025 17:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next Thursday, November 6th for our 2nd Annual Nancy Marzella Lecture on Women and American Catholicism featuring BC Alumni Dr. Susan Reynolds (Emory University). Her talk, Where are Women in the Story of Clergy Abuse?, will take place in Devlin Hall 101 from 5:30 -7pm.
31.10.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Continuing our 25th anniversary celebration, our second panel on “How Has Religious Practice in the United States Changed in the Last Quarter Century?“ has begun.
28.10.2025 21:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our Panel Series: Celebrating the Boisi Center’s 25th Anniversary has begun. Panel 1 discusses “How Has the Relationship Between Religion and Politics Changed Over the Past Twenty Five Years?”
28.10.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our 23rd Prophetic Voices Lecture featuring Dr. Jason Blakely has started in Stokes Hall S195.
23.10.2025 21:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our panel discussion on “For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America,” authored by BC History Professor James O’Toole, has begun in Devlin 101.
22.10.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next Tuesday, October 28th, as we celebrate the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life's 25th Anniversary. Our panel series and reception will take place in the Murray Function Room, 4th floor, at Yawkey Center from 3 - 6:30pm. See schedule of events & to register on our website
20.10.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next Thursday, October 23rd for our 23rd Annual Prophetic Voices Lecture featuring Dr. Jason Blakely (Pepperdine University). His talk, "I Have a Theory, But You Have an Ideology," will take place in Stokes Hall S195 from 5:30-7pm. BC Bookstore will be there selling copies of Blakely's book.
16.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Wed., Oct. 22 for a book panel discussing James O'Toole's new book, For I Have Sinned: The Rise and Fall of Catholic Confession in America, from 5:30 -7pm in Devlin 101. This panel is co-sponsored with BC Libraries.
The BC Bookstore will be on hand selling copies.
15.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us on Monday, October 20th, for a lecture with Archbishop Gabriele Caccia. Co-sponsored with C21 and The International Studies Programs, "The Quest for Peace" lecture will take place from 5:30-6:30pm in Gasson Hall 100. Registration Required.
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14.10.2025 21:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to everyone who came to hear Fordham University President Tania Tetlow speak at Boston College last week. Photo credit: Christopher Soldt, Boston College
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24.09.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our luncheon colloquium with Elliott Jones, BC 2026, is taking place at the Boisi Center. Co-sponsored with the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Jones delivers his research project on “Sabbath and Leisure as Remedy for Modernity: A Dialogue Between Abraham Joshua Heschel and Josef Pieper.”
17.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next week on Monday, September 15 as we welcome Fordham University President Tania Tetlow to deliver our 2nd Annual Alfred and Melissa Di Leonardo Lecture on "Catholic Higher Education and the Work of Hope in Uncertain Times."
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09.09.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture conference is being held at BC August 6-8. For registration and information, check out the link: www.ismrc.org/25boston
18.07.2025 22:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Check out our Spring 2025 Newsletter - now posted to our website.
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20.05.2025 18:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Muslim and Catholic Experiences of National Belonging in France
ICYMI: Dr. Carol Ferrara's luncheon colloquium on Muslim and Catholic Experiences of National Belonging in France is now uploaded to our YouTube Channel.
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05.05.2025 21:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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American Religious Darwinism: Teaching Islam in American Protestant Seminaries during the Gilded Age
Our luncheon colloquium with The Rev. Dr. David Grafton on "American Religious Darwinism: Teaching Islam in American Protestant Seminaries during the Gilded Age" is now available on the Boisi Center's YouTube channel.
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23.04.2025 15:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Catholic Fundamentalism in America
Book panel discussion on Boisi Center director, Mark Massa's, latest book, Catholic Fundamentalism in America youtu.be/hfhMW_mkWpM?... is now available on YouTube.
11.04.2025 20:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please join us next week for a panel discussion on Boisi Center director, Mark Massa’s, new book, Catholic Fundamentalism in America, moderated by James Keenan, S.J.
27.03.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Register now (in person or on Zoom) to attend our graduate student conference on "Accessing the Divine: Religious Sources of Resilience in an Age of Political Turmoil."
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25.03.2025 20:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Join us next week as we welcome Dr. Jeannine Hill Fletcher from Fordham University to BC to deliver the Inaugural Nancy Marzella Lecture on Women and American Catholicism.
18.03.2025 16:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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