Celebrating the 120th anniversary of Rerum Novarum

This upcoming conference, at Notre Dame, might be of interest:

 

The core purpose of the Dear Brothers and Sisters Conference is to intellectually explore the thematic social issues that have been addressed by modern Catholic social thought by assembling some of the most respected experts in Catholic social ethics. In order to garner original and creative insights of the topics, we are posing to the scholars, “If you were Pope, what social issue would you address with an encyclical and what would you prescribe?” Some of the issues we hope would be addressed include: ecology, capital punishment, immigration/globalization, gender and race, peace, and human and economic development. The primary audiences would be the general undergraduate population and all faculty on campuses that seek to integrate Catholic social teaching into their courses or have a more thorough understanding of social action intellectualism as part of Catholic identity. . . .