University Faculty for Life conference

Thanks to Rick for his recent post highlighting John Breen's fine talk at this last weekend's University Faculty for Life (UFL) conference. The conference was supported by a generous grant from Our Sunday Visitor Institute, and hosted by the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame's chapter of University Faculty for Life, and the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life. After all lhe recent controversies concerning Notre Dame and the life issues, it was good to be at Notre Dame with the many members of that community who support the pro-life cause in so many ways.   

In addition to John's talk, the conference featured an interesting discussion of the Phoenix abortion case with Father Kevin Flannery SJ and Father Tom Berg, and talks by individuals such as Sam Calhoun, Tom Cavanuagh, Michael New, Teresa Collett, Clarke Forsythe, Mark Rienzi, Bill Saunders, Chris Kaczor, Richard Stith, Gerry Bradley, and John Keown. David Solomon of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics and Culture also gave a wondeful talk when he received UFL's Smith Award for distinguished contributions to pro-life scholarship.

Next year's UFL conference will be on June 1-2, 2012 at BYU.

Richard M.