2008 Romero Days at Notre Dame

Panel Discussion: "El Caso Romero"

Margaret Pfeil, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Lawrence S. Cunningham, John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Michael Lee, Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University

Chaired by
Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
12:30 pm - C-103 Hesburgh Center

Eucharistic Liturgy Honoring Women of Service in Latin America

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
11:00 am - Church of Loretto, Saint Mary’s College
Celebrant - Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC

Margaret Pfeil, assistant professor of theology at Notre Dame, specializes in Catholic social thought and the development of moral doctrine. Her articles have appeared in Louvain Studies, Josephinum Journal of Theology, The Journal for Peace & Justice Studies, New Theology Review, and the Mennonite Quarterly Review. She is currently finishing the book “Social Sin: Social Reconciliation?” and with Margaret Eletta Guider, OSF, coediting “White Privilege: Implications for the Church, the Catholic University, and Theology.” She is a founder of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend.

Lawrence S. Cunningham is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at Notre Dame. His interests include systematic theology and culture, and Christian spirituality and its history. His most recent book is A Brief History of Saints (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). He has edited or written sixteen other books and serves as coeditor of the academic monograph series "Studies in Theology and Spirituality" as well as associate editor for a number of scholarly journals.

The author of over fifty articles in peer-reviewed or solicited journals and books, he has also written over two hundred articles for pastoral and popular outlets. He has won three Catholic Press Association awards for religious writing (1987, 1999, and 2000). The religion book notes columnist for Commonweal for over ten years, he has won awards for his teaching at Notre Dame: the Fenlon Award from Sorin College (1989) and a Kaneb Award in 1999. He is currently finishing a book on Roman Catholicism for Cambridge University Press and had been appointed Christianity editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of World Religions.

Michael E. Lee, assistant professor of theology at Fordham University, focuses on the interconnection between theological and Christological assertions and Christian praxis/practice. Taking all theology as correlational in some form, he seeks to understand different theologies in light of their historical realities and thus to account more clearly for the manner in which they advocate incarnating the Christian life.

His current research involves an ongoing dialogue between the work of Latin American liberation theologians and those of the so-called Radical Orthodoxy, and the relationship between theologians (e.g. Athanasius, Bonaventure, and Ellacuría) and saints who influenced their thought (Anthony, Francis, and Oscar Romero, respectively.) Lee is the author of Bearing the Weight of Salvation: The Soteriology of Ignacio Ellacuría (Herder & Herder, 2008).