“Challenging the Secular Culture: A Call to Christians,”

Franciscan Univ. Conference to Challenge the Secular Culture

By Kathryn Zagrobelny 


The Veritas Center for Ethics and Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio, will host a conference titled “Challenging the Secular Culture: A Call to Christians,” the University announced. The conference is set for April 10-11, and it will address the secular world view and how to steer it back to traditional understandings of faith and morality, especially in the areas of the family, young people, and education.

The conference comes in response to the growing crisis and constant attacks on the dignity of the human person by society, according to the University. The presentations will therefore explore ways of “reclaiming sound, moral culture that fosters human dignity to the fullest in areas such as family life, sexual morality, education, politics, law, art and architecture, economic life, the media, and the situation of young people and minority groups.”

"With this conference, we deliberately decided to avoid cursing the darkness and come up with some ideas about how we can address the problems of culture to get us on a path of redirecting culture away from secularism toward traditional understanding about faith and morality,” Dr.Stephen Krason, associate director of the Veritas Center, professor of political science and legal studies, and co-founder and president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists at Franciscan University, said in the news release.

The speakers who will address these issues include, among others, diplomat, director of Voice of America, and author Robert Reilly; president of The Howard Center, editor of Family in America, and international secretary of the World Congress on Families, Dr. Allan Carlson; and Dr. Jonathan Reyes, executive director of the Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development at the USCCB.

They will present on a variety of topics, such as 

• "The New Gnosticism of the Homosexual Movement and How to Restore Reality,” 
• “The Natural Family in the Post-Modern (and Much More Real) World," and 
• "Christin Civil Society: The Intersection of Higher Education and Social Concerns in the Evangelization of Culture."

According to the University, the speakers’ papers will be compiled into a book and published by the new Franciscan University Press following the conference.

Franciscan University is recommended in The Newman Guide for its strong Catholic identity. The Cardinal Newman Society’s 2015 edition of the Guide was launched alongside Recruit Me, an innovative program that lets students sign up so that the recommended colleges can compete for them.

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