For Immediate Release

March 30, 2006
Contact: Melanie McDonald, director of public relations, 574-284-4579

Saint Mary’s Madeleva Lecture Examines Women, Justice and Religion

NOTRE DAME, Ind – The Saint Mary’s College Center for Spirituality presents the 21st Madeleva Lecture on Thursday, April 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Little Theatre, Moreau Center for the Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Susan A. Ross, a professor in the theology department at Loyola University Chicago, is the keynote speaker. She will present “For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality and Justice.”

The Madeleva Lectures in Spirituality are named for Sister Madeleva Wolff, CSC, past-president of Saint Mary’s College. In 1944, at a time when no other Catholic college or university admitted women to the Ph.D. program in theology, Sister Madeleva established the School of Sacred Theology to educate women at the doctoral level.

The Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary’s is dedicated to exploring the Christian spiritual tradition, especially as it relates to issues facing contemporary women, their families and friends.

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