Rev. J. Bryan Hehir, an internationally renowned theologian who specializes in Catholic social teaching and international relations, will deliver the 14th annual Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Lectures in Ethics and Public Policy March 25 and 26 (Tuesday and Wednesday) at the University of Notre Dame.
Twenty-five years ago, Hehir was the chief architect of the U.S. Catholic bishopsinfluential statement on nuclear weapons,The Challenge of Peace.He is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government.
Hehir will speak onBeyond the Challenge of Peace: Pastoral Letter for Our Day,March 25 at 4:15 p.m., in the auditorium of the Hesburgh Center for International Studies. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Great Hall.
He will speak onThe Hardest Case: The Politics and Ethics of ProliferationMarch 26 at 12:30 p.m., also in the Hesburgh Center auditorium. David Cortright, an expert on nuclear weapons policy and a research fellow at Notre Dames Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will respond.
Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Hehir previously served as president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA. In the 1980s, he was policy advisor to the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops in Washington, D.C. He also has served as the Joseph P. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics and as a professor in religion and society at Harvard Divinity School.
Hehir is the recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur Foundationgeniusaward (1984) and honorary degrees from more than 25 institutions. He has written extensively on ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and American society. His publications includeThe Moral Measurement of War,Military Intervention and National Sovereignty,Catholicism and Democracy,Social Values and Public Policy,andThe Moral Dimension in the Use of Force.
The annual Hesburgh lectures were established by the Kroc Institute in honor of the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of Notre Dame.
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