Stritch to host noted religion journalist John Allen Jr.
for provocative lecture with Milwaukee business community
posted Jan. 31, 2012
Cardinal Stritch University’s Saint Clare Center for Catholic Life will welcome John L. Allen Jr. to the Milwaukee Athletic Club at 758 N. Broadway on Feb. 29, 2012, from 7:30-9 a.m. for a lecture entitled “Are You Up for the Challenges of the Roman Catholic Church in the 21st Century?” This event is the third of four in the center’s Forums on Faith and Work series.
Allen is the prize-winning senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter and the senior Vatican analyst for CNN. He is the author of six best-selling books on the Vatican and Catholic affairs, and writes frequently on the Church for major national and international publications. “The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church” (Doubleday, 2009) has received broad praise in journalistic and theological circles. His latest book, “A People of Hope” (Catholic Books.com, 2011) is about Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York, the former archbishop of Milwaukee.
A popular speaker on Catholic affairs, both in the United States and abroad, Allen was called “the most authoritative writer on Vatican affairs in the English language” by the London Tablet. Renowned papal biographer George Weigel has called him “the best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever.” Veteran religion writer Kenneth Woodward of Newsweek described Allen as “the journalist other reporters – and not a few cardinals – look to for the inside story on how all the pope’s men direct the world’s largest church.”
Like Thomas Friedman’s “The World is Flat,” Allen’s “The Future Church” establishes a new framework for meeting the challenges of a changing world. During this breakfast lecture, Allen will examine the impact of globalization on the Catholic Church and illuminate trends that require Catholics to rethink fundamental issues and ways of doing business.
Allen will be introduced by Cardinal Stritch University President Dr. James Loftus, who hopes to build meaningful connections with the business community and local Catholics through discussion of topics affecting the greater Milwaukee community.
The cost is $25 per person. To register, call (414) 410-4340 or register online.
This event is the third of four lectures in the Forums on Faith and Work breakfast series, which offers topical presentations by noted theologians and scholars that focus on the interplay of faith and work for the business community. In fall 2011, Bishop Donald Hying and Neil Parent presented in the series. Boston College scholar Father Thomas Massaro, SJ, will conclude the 2011-12 series on April 20, 2012.