Table of Contents for the Calendars of the American Catholics in the Public Square Colloquia

SPECIAL EVENT:
 ANTI-CATHOLICISM CONFERERNCE, MAY 24, 2002 

• Calendars for Joint Consultations of the Commonweal Foundation and the Faith & Reason Institute
• Calendars for Commonweal Colloquia
• Calendars for Faith & Reason Colloquia

Common Track Calendar Summary

2000

• Spring:
  The Patterns of Catholic Civic Engagement: Change and Continuity.

• Summer and Winter:
  From Pews to Polling Booths: 
  How Catholics Vote

2001

2002

• Fall:
  Catholics in the Public Square: Proposals for the Future

Commonweal Track Calendar Summary

2000

• May: First Commonweal Colloquium. 

Three sessions: 

1. The concept of the “common good” and language of Catholic social thought.

2. Catholic social thought and the natural law tradition.  

3. Catholic social thought and liberal pluralism.

• October: Second Commonweal Colloquium.

Three sessions: 

1. Case study: State Catholic Conferences and how they work.  

2. The Catholic parish and the public square. 

3. The relationship between hierarchy and independent initiatives.

2001

• January: Third Commonweal Colloquium. 

Three sessions:  

1. The next generation: young Catholics and civic engagement.  

2. Popular culture and Catholic civic engagement.  

3. Catholicism in the literary imagination.

• April: Fourth Commonweal Colloquium.  

Three sessions:  

1. Case study: Catholics and the campaigns for euthanasia and assisted suicide.  

2. Structured conversations with Catholic politicians (two sessions).

• October: Fifth Commonweal Colloquium. 

Three sessions:  

1. Structured conversation with Catholics in the media (two sessions).  

2. Abortion, sexuality, and Catholicism’s public presence.

• December: Sixth Commonweal Colloquium. 
  Case study: Catholic health care.  Coalitions, compromises, and their limits.  Catholic social thought and professional education.

2002

• February: Seventh Commonweal Colloquium.

1. Catholic social thought in flux: Just war and capital punishment (two sessions).  

2. Preaching and Catholic civic engagement.

• April: Eighth Commonweal Colloquium.  
  Three sessions: Structured conversation with Catholic leaders in business and labor (two sessions).  Catholic social thought and contemporary economic thinking.

Faith & Reason Track Calendar Summary

1999

• Washington Colloquia: 
  October, December. 

2000

• Washington Colloquia: 
  January, April, September, November. 

2001

• Washington Colloquia: 
  January, April, September, November. 

2002

• Washington Colloquia: 
  January, March, May, September.

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