ROMERO DAYS & RELATED EVENTS
Romero Days 2019 - "The Church of Romero and the Gangs"
Conference Schedule
March 18-20, 2019
Hesburgh Center for International Studies
University of Notre Dame
Monday, March 18
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
9:30-10:00am
Registration Check-in
10:00-10:30am
Welcome Address
Peter Casarella, Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns
10:30am-12:00pm
Session 1—Gangs in El Salvador as a Transnational Form of Belonging, Part I—Background and History
Robert Brenneman, Saint Michael's College
José Miguel Cruz, Florida International University
Moderator: David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame
12:00-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-3:00pm
In Spanish with consecutive interpretation
Session 2—Gangs in El Salvador as a Transnational Form of Belonging, Part II—Contemporary Perspectives
Danielle Marie Mackey, Journalist, Freelance
Juan José Martínez d’Aubuisson, Anthropologist and Author, El Salvador
Moderator: Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame
3:00-4:30pm
Session 3—Trauma and Violence Against Women
Laura Miller-Graff, University of Notre Dame
Rev. Mauricio Gaborit, S.J., Universidad Centroamericana
Moderator: Sharon Schierling, University of Notre Dame
5:00-6:30pm
Session 4—A Conversation with Gustavo Gutierrez and Book Presentation—Beneath a Gangster’s Mask: Poems and Reflections by Incarcerated Youth in El Salvador
Jenna Knapp, Author
Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez, O.P., University of Notre Dame (Teleconferencing)
Moderator: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame
Location: Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Tuesday, March 19
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
9:00-10:30am
In Spanish with consecutive interpretation
Session 1—Human Rights in the Face of Gang Violence
Roberto Cuéllar, Director & Representative of OEI, El Salvador
Arnau Baulenas, Judicial Coordinator, Human Rights Institute, UCA, San Salvador
Moderators: Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC and Sean O’Brien, University of Notre Dame
11:00-12:15pm
Session 2—The Attempted Truce with MS-13 and Barrio 18 in 2011-13: What Happened and What Are the Chances for a Truce in the Future?
Héctor Silva Ávalos, InSight Crime
Moderator: Jason Quinn, University of Notre Dame
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-3:15pm
Session 3—Decoloniality and Theology
Rufus Burnett, Fordham University
Moderator: Steve Battin, University of Notre Dame
3:15-3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30-4:30pm
In Spanish with consecutive interpretation
Session 4—Reintegration of Former Gang Members Into Society
Pastor Nelson Moz, El Salvador
Rosa Anaya, Second Chances Program, Catholic Relief Services, El Salvador
Moderator: Margaret Pfeil, University of Notre Dame
5:00-7:00pm
Reception and Dinner Banquet
Conferral of the Annual Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC Essay Contest Awards
Location: The Oak Room, South Dining Hall
Wednesday, March 20
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
9:00-10:30am
Session 1— Panel Discussion—Transnational Dimensions of Gang Violence in the U.S.
Carmelo Álvarez, Human Services Coordinator, Clean and Green Program, Los Angeles
Rev. Michael Kennedy, S.J., Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative, Los Angeles
Marco A. López, Catholic Theological Union
Moderator: Jason Springs, University of Notre Dame
11:00-12:00pm
Session 2—Peace Making in El Salvador Today
Sr. Peggy O’Neill, El Salvador
Moderator: Erin Corcoran, University of Notre Dame
12:30-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-3:30pm
Session 3—Closing Panel Discussion-- Current Efforts to Build Bridges and Promote Human Dignity
Thomas Hare, University of Notre Dame
Kevin and Trena Yonkers-Talz, Co-Directors, Centro Ignacio Ellacuría, SJ, UCA
Richard Jones, Deputy Regional Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Catholic Relief Services
Moderator: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame
Saturday, March 23rd
5:00pm
Romero Martyrdom Anniversary Vigil Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Presider and Homilist, Fr. Juan Molina, OSST
LANACC Panel Discussion: Celebrating the Canonization of Saint Archbishop Óscar Romero
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
4:30pm LANACC Panel Discussion: Celebrating the Canonization of Saint Archbishop Óscar Romero
Moderator: Peter Casarella, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
4:35pm The Fittingness of Canonizing Óscar Romero and Pope Paul VI Together
Todd Walatka, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
4:50pm A Dream Come True: The Canonization of Óscar Romero
Rev. Robert Pelton, Director Emeritus, LANACC
5:15pm ¡CESE LA REPRESIÓN! Romero an Inconvenient Saint for Our Troubled Times
Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Hispanic Theology and Ministry, Catholic Theological Union
5:40pm General Discussion
6:00pm Reception
Jenkins Nanovic Hall, Forum
Please contact Lupe Ramírez for more information
Romero Martyrdom Anniversary Vigil Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Presider and Homilist, Fr. Juan Molina, OSST
Romero Days 2018 - "Memorializing Martyrdom: Romero's Beatification and Our Task Today"
Friday, March 23
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
9:00 am - Opening Remarks
Peter Casarella, Director, LANACC
9:30 am - Session 1—CELAM and the Reception of the ‘Bridge Theology’ of Pope Francis
Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, University of Notre Dame
Moderator: Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame
10:30 am - Coffee Break
11:00am - Session 2—Seminar and Discussion — Pastoral Letters of Bishop Romero
Seminar Leader: Todd Walatka, University of Notre Dame
12:30 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Session 3—Business Meeting
3:15 pm - Coffee Break
3:30 pm - Session 4—Making Martyrs: The Crucified People, Black Lives Matter, and Romero’s Legacy in the United States
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
Rubén Rosario Rodriguez, St. Louis University
Moderator: Ricardo Ramírez, University of Notre Dame
5:15 pm - Óscar Romero Memorial Mass
Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Celebrant and Homilist: Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville-Rodríguez, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington
Saturday, March 24
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
10:00 am - Session 1 – All Roads to El Salvador: Understanding Ita Ford’s Response to Archbishop Romero’s Call
Marian Mollin, Virginia Tech
Moderator: Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P.
11:00 am - Coffee Break
11:30 am - Session 2—Panel Discussion – Agrarian Reform and Human Rights
Matthew Phillip Whelan, Baylor University
Oscar Romero and the Politics of Common Use
Respondent: Doug Cassel, University of Notre Dame
Moderator: David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame
1:00 pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Session 3—The Roots of Pope Francis’ Social and Political Thought
Thomas R. Rourke, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Sue Collins, University of Notre Dame3:00 pm - Closing Plenary – Panel Discussion - Torture and Eucharist: Thoughts Then and Now
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
William T. Cavanaugh, Depaul University
Moderator: Margaret Pfeil, University of Notre Dame
Respondents: David Fagerberg and Sean O’Brien, University of Notre Dame
5:00 pm - Closing Dinner
Hesburgh Center, Great Hall
6:00 pm - Presentation of the Annual Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC Essay Contest Awards
Hesburgh Center, Great Hall
Bios
William T. Cavanaugh
I am a professor of Catholic studies and director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology, a research center housed in the Department of Catholic Studies and focusing on the Catholic Church in the global South—Africa, Asia, and Latin America. I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame, where I planned to study chemical engineering but got hooked on theology. I received a master’s degree from Cambridge University in England and then spent two years working for the Church in a poor area of Santiago, Chile, under the military dictatorship. Upon returning to the United States, I got a PhD from Duke University, and then taught at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota for 15 years before coming to DePaul. I am married and have three sons.
Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville-Rodriguez
Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez was born October 31, 1960 in Bogotá, Colombia, the only child of Leonor M. Rodríguez and the late Carlos J. Dorsonville. He attended the major seminary of the Archdiocese of Bogotá, receiving a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 1981 and a bachelor’s in sacred theology in 1985. He was ordained to the priesthood on November 23, 1985 in Bogotá. Following ordination, he served as parochial vicar of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Bogotá (1986), chaplain of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá (1987), pastor of San Jose de Calasanz Parish, Bogotá (1987-1991), and associate chaplain (1988-1991) and professor of ethics (1990-1991) at the National University of Colombia.
He received a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá in 1991 and a doctorate in ministry from The Catholic University of America in 1995. From 1992-1994, he served as parochial vicar of Good Shepherd and Christ the Redeemer Parishes in Arlington, Virginia, and as a lecturer at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington. He served as a professor at the Hispanic Apostolate of Arlington from 1993-1994. He returned to Colombia to serve as chaplain and professor of ethics to the National University of Colombia and professor of pastoral counseling and catechesis at the major seminary of the Archdiocese of Bogotá from 1995-1996.
He served as parochial vicar of St. Joseph Parish in Arlington (1996), Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Bethesda, Maryland (1997-2004) and St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Hyattsville, Maryland (2004-2005). He has served as vice president for mission of Catholic Charities of Washington and director of the Spanish Catholic Center since 2005 and as adjunct spiritual director for St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington since 2011.
He has served as a member of the priest council of the Archdiocese of Washington since 2000 and a member of the College of Consultors of the archdiocese since 2011. He was a member of the board of directors for Carroll Publishing Company from 2000-2003. He completed an executive certificate in non-profit management course at Georgetown University in 2009 and served as a mentor for newly ordained priests from 2010-2011.
David Fagerberg
Marian Mollin
All Roads to El Salvador: Understanding Ita Ford’s Response to Archbishop Romero’s Call
Marian Mollin is associate professor of history at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) and has published a range of articles on gender and the history of social movements, including pieces in Radical History Review, Oral History Review, History Compass, and Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research. She is the co-editor, with Douglas Rossinow and Leilah Danielson, of The Religious Left in Modern America: Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018), which will be released later this spring. She is currently working on a book-length historical biography of Ita Ford, entitled The Power of Faith: Understanding the Life and Death of Maryknoll Sister Ita Ford.
Margaret Pfeil
Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. She is a Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her research interests include Catholic social thought, racial justice, ecological ethics, ecumenical dialogue, and peace studies. With Tobias Winright, she co-edited Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God (Orbis Books, 2012). With Gerald Schlabach, she is co-editor of Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation (Liturgical Press, 2013), and with Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich she is co-author of The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Palgrave, 2013), which has been issued in paperback in Spring 2016. She is a co-founder and resident of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker Community in South Bend, Indiana.
Ricardo Ramirez
Ricardo Ramírez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
His broad research interests include political behavior, state and local politics, and the politics of race and ethnicity. His research is geared to understanding the transformation of civic and political participation in American democracy by focusing on the effects of political context on participation, the political mobilization of and outreach to Latino immigrants and other minority groups, and the causes and consequences of increasing diversity among elected officials.
He is Principal Investigator of a longitudinal study of gendered career paths among Latina/o elected officials since 1990 and coeditor of Transforming Politics, Transforming America: The Political and Civic Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States.
His most recent writings include: “Mobilization en Español: Spanish-language Radio and the Activation of Political Identities," "Transnational Stakeholders: Latin American Migrant Transnationalism and Civic Engagement in the United States," "Why California Matters: How California Latinos Influence the Presidential Election," "Political Protest, Ethnic Media and Latino Naturalization," and "Latinos during the 2006 Immigration Protest Rallies."
Rev. Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez
Making Martyrs: The Crucified People, Black Lives Matter, and Romero's Legacy in the United States
The Rev. Dr. Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, a graduate of Union Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary, is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Dr. Rosario has contributed chapters to two recent collections on Latino/a theology in the United States, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latino/a Theology (2015), and Immigrant Neighbors among Us: Immigration across Theological Traditions (2015). His first book, Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective (NYU Press, 2008) won the 2011 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award for Theology. Cambridge University Press published his most recent book, Christian Martyrdom and Political Violence: A Conversation with Judaism and Islam (2017), and his next book is forthcoming from Westminster John Knox Press, entitled Dogmatics After Babel: Beyond the Theologies of Word and Culture (2018). Dr. Rosario is also director of the Mev Puleo Scholarship in Latin American Theology, Politics, and Culture, a ten-week immersion experience with an emphasis on liberation theology and social justice.
Thomas R. Rourke
Thomas Rourke graduated from the Guided Research Honors Program at Fordham University with a B.A. in Political Economy. After pursuing theological studies at Rome’s Gregorian University and at Oblate School of Theology, he received his Ph.D. in Political Science at Texas Tech University. His dissertation critiquing Catholic neoconservatives Michael Novak, George Weigel and Richard John Neuhaus won the American Political Science Association’s Religion and Politics Section’s Aaron Wildavsky Award. His research is at the intersection of theology, political theory and Latin America, aided by twenty summers in Argentina. He has published five books: The Roots of Pope Francis's Social and Political Thought (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). A Conscience as Large as the World (1997), A Theory of Personalism (2005) (with Rosita A. Chazarreta Rourke), Democracy and Tyranny: The Catholic Understanding of the State and Politics (2009) and The Social and Political Thought of Benedict XVI (2011). He has additionally published articles in volumes published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Duncker and Humblot (Germany), The Review of Politics, The Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Communio: International Catholic Review, and Journal of Peace and Justice Studies. He is the author the entry, “Roman Catholic Political Thought,” in the Encyclopedia of Political Science (Congressional Quarterly Press).
Todd Walatka
Todd Walatka serves as the assistant chair for graduate studies in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Specializing in contemporary Catholic systematic theology, his research focuses particularly on the thought of Has Urs von Balthasar and Latin American liberation theology. He also works in the field of pedagogy and pedagogical formation, both in his role as assistant chair for graduate studies and in his research. Two ongoing book projects explore the theme of mercy in liberation theology and the theological witness of Archbishop Óscar Romero. The courses he has taught most recently include: The Church and the Poor, Mercy and Liberation, Introduction to Vatican II, Christian Traditions II, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, and Teaching Theology.
Matthew Philipp Whelan
Matthew Philipp Whelan is a St. Andrews Postdoctoral Fellow in Theology & Science, hosted by Baylor University. Matthew’s doctoral dissertation looked at Romero’s life and martyrdom through the lens of agrarian conflict and agrarian
reform, arguing that his call for a better distribution of land is part of a more comprehensive politics of common use, which prioritizes the access of all peoples to creation. Matthew holds degrees from the University of Virginia (B.A.), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (M.Sc.), and Duke University (M.T.S., Ph.D.), and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Moral Theology, Nova et Vetera, Crosscurrents, Biodiversity and Conservation, and Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries. At present, Matthew resides in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Natalie, along with their three daughters, Chora, Edith, and Simone.
Romero Days 2017 - "Christian Discipleship: The Witness of Blessed Archbishop Óscar Romero"
March 24-28, 2017
University of Notre Dame
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
Friday, March 24
5:15 pm
Anniversary Mass – Basilica of the Sacred Heart
Celebrant and Homilist, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Archbishop of Manila
Music by El Coro Primavera
Monday, March 27
9:00 am
Opening Remarks
Peter Casarella, Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC)
9:15 am
Session 1: Romero as a Pastoral Doctor of the Universal Church
Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, University of Notre Dame
9:30 am
The Spirituality of Óscar Arnulfo Romero
David Perrin, OMI, St. Jerome’s University
10:15 am
Panel Discussion
The Pastoral Dimension of Romero
Rev. John Thiede, SJ, Marquette University
The Transforming Effects of Persecution in the Life of Blessed Óscar Romero
Damian Zynda, McQuaid Jesuit High School
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Session 2: The Transfiguration of El Salvador: Romero’s Source for a Pedagogy of Life
Edgardo Colón-Emeric, Duke Divinity School
12:30 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Session 3: Óscar Romero, Discipleship, and the False Middle
Michael E. Lee, Fordham University
3:00 pm
Book Presentation (Hesburgh Center Auditorium)
Romero and Grande: Companions on the Journey
Sr. Ana María Pineda, RSM, Santa Clara University
4:00 pm
Break
4:30 pm
Session 4: The Christian Discipleship of Óscar Romero Towards His Death (Hesburgh Center Auditorium)
Roberto Morrozzo della Rocca, Università degli Studi, Roma Tre, Italy
7:00 pm
Kellogg Institute Dinner Celebrating Father Robert Pelton, CSC (By invitation)
Tuesday, March 28
Location: Hesburgh Center, C103 (unless otherwise stated)
7:00 am
Mass – Dillon Hall, Chapel
Celebrant and Homilist, Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
9:00 am
Session 1: Lived Faith and Witness of Sr. Carla Piette, Maryknoll Missionary in Chile and El Salvador
Jackie Maggiore, Mary Knoll Affiliates, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
10:00 am
Session 2: Archbishop Romero and the New Evangelization in Latin America
David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame
11:00 am
Break
11:30 am
Session 3: Romero on the Witness of the Martyrs
Todd Walatka, University of Notre Dame
1:00 pm
Lunch
2:00 pm
Work Meeting – Discussion regarding book project
3:00 pm
Book Presentations (Hesburgh Center Auditorium)
Pope Francis: Gift and Challenge to Latinos
Bishop Ricardo Ramírez, CSB, Bishop Emeritus of Las Cruces, New Mexico
Building Bridges, Not Walls in a Time of Division
John Francis Burke, Trinity University
5:00 pm
Reception (Hesburgh Center, Great Hall)
5:30 pm
Closing Plenary – Hesburgh Center, Auditorium
Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
Romero Days 2016 - "The Catholic Martyrs of the War in El Salvador"
Friday, April 1, 2016
The Catholic Martyrs of the War in El Salvador
Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium
3:30-4:30 pm: "The Witness and Legacy of Dorothy Kazel, OSU"
The moderator and panelists are members of the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, as was Sr. Dorothy Kazel.
Moderator
Maureen Doyle, OSU
Panelists
Martha Owen, OSU
Rose Elizabeth Terrell, OSU
Roberta Goebel, OSU
Sheila Marie Tobbe, OSU
5:00-6:30 pm: "The Witness and Legacy of Blessed Archbishop Óscar Romero"
Moderator
Todd Walatka, Notre Dame
Panelists
Margaret Pfeil, Notre Dame
José Inocencio Alas, Foundation for Sustainability and Peacemaking in Mesoamerica
Fr. Robert Pelton, CSC, Notre Dame, Emeritus
Concluding remarks:
J. Matthew Ashley, University of Notre Dame (Theology)
Dinner to follow
LANACC Book Launch to Celebrate New Volume on Archbishop Romero
Thursday, September 17, 2015
A new book examining the life and work of recently beatified Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador will be launched with a panel discussion and reception on Thursday, September 17 at 4 pm in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium. Hosted by Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC), the event is free and open to the public.
Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World (Lexington Books, 2015), edited by LANACC founder and director emeritus Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, offers a fresh look at the remarkable pastoral leader long known as “San Romero de America,” who promised just weeks before he was assassinated in 1980 that he would rise again in the Salvadoran people.
Panelists at the book launch will include Pelton and four other theologians who contributed to the volume: Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, and Margaret Pfeil of Notre Dame’s Department of Theology, and Thomas Kelly of Creighton University.
“With this book launch, LANACC is renewing its commitment to the multifaceted and richly meaningful witness of Robert Pelton, CSC,” says LANACC Interim Director Peter Casarella. “Moreover, we are sharing the fruits of one of the 27 consecutive ‘Romero Days’ that have marked LANACC’s 30-year legacy.”
The collection of essays on Romero originated in an international conference organized by Pelton and held in 2014 at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he, Gutiérrez, and Casarella are faculty fellows.
Casarella, also a Notre Dame theologian, is excited about taking the reins at LANACC.
“The mission of LANACC remains promoting what Pope Francis calls the ‘culture of encounter’ and what John Paul II named Ecclesia in America,” he says. “LANACC serves the Church and the academy by promoting the bilateral exchange of ideas, practices, and gifts between North America and Latin America.
“We are committed to exploring new paths for dialogue and the promotion of lay leadership, ecclesial communion, and social justice.”
For more on the book, click here.
International Conference on Archbishop Oscar Romero
September 25 - 27, 2014
Conference Schedule
All events take place in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium (overflow, C103 Hesburgh) unless otherwise noted.
Thursday, September 25
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Registration - Great Hall, Hesburgh Center
9:00 am
Mass in Spanish (optional) -- Alumni Chapel Hall
Presiding: TBD
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Welcome
Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC, Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Keynote Address I: “Pope Francis and the Preferential Option for the Poor”
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Introduction by:
Matthew Ashley, Chair, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Q & A
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Commentary: “Archbishop Romero and the Preferential Option for the Poor”
Rev. Carlos Sánchez, Pastor, First Baptist Church, San Salvador
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Dinner Reception (registered participants only)
Friday, September 26, 2014
9:00 am
Mass in English (optional) -- Alumni Chapel Hall
Presiding: Rev. Matthew Kuczora, CSC
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Registration - Great Hall, Hesburgh Center
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Distinguished Lecture - “Monseñor Romero Remembered in Perquín, El Salvador”
Claudia Bernardi, Professor of Community Arts, California College of the Arts
Introduction by:
Rev. Patrick Gaffney, CSC, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch (registered participants only)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Special Sessions
Session 1: “Romero as a Person and His Charisma with the Pontiffs”
Presenter:
Julian Filochowski, Chair, Archbishop Romero Trust, United Kingdom
Respondent:
James Creagan, Professor of International Studies, University of the Incarnate Word
Chair:
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo, Professor of Pastoral and Hispanic Theology, University of Notre Dame
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Break
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Session 2: “The Legal Aid and Human Rights Heritage of Óscar Romero”
Presenter:
Roberto Cuéllar, Regional Director for Central America, Human Rights Education Institute, Organization of Ibero-American States
Introduction by:
Christine Cervenak, Associate Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame
Respondent:
Tom Quigley, Former Foreign Policy Advisor, Latin America and the Caribbean, US Conference of Catholic Bishops
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Free Time
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Keynote Address 2: “The Spirituality of Monseñor Romero”
Monsignor Ricardo Urioste, President, Fundación Monseñor Romero
Introduction by:
Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC, Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns, University of Notre Dame
Respondent:
Sr. Pat Farrell, OSF, Former President, Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)
6:30 pm
Welcome Reception & Tribute to Rev. Edward L. Cleary, OP
Location: Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture, 1045 W. Washington Street, South Bend, IN 46601
Hosted by
Gilberto Cárdenas, Executive Director, Notre Dame Center for Arts & Culture
Saturday, September 27, 2014
9:00 am - 2:15 pm
Panel Sessions— Conversion of Romero
Location: Andrews Auditorium, Geddes Hall
9:00 am
Welcome
Rachel Tomas Morgan, Director of International Service Learning, Center for Social Concerns, University of Notre Dame
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Panel 1: Psychological Conversion
Discussant:
Damian Zynda, Faculty, Christian Spirituality Program, Creighton University
Respondents:
Rev. David Perrin, OMI, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, St. Jerome's University
Mauro Pando, Former Director of the Counseling Ministry, Franciscan Renewal Center
Chair:
Rachel Tomas Morgan, Director of International Service Learning, Center for Social Concerns
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Break
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Panel 2: Social Teaching Conversion
Discussant:
Margaret Pfeil, Associate Professional Specialist in Theology, University of Notre Dame
Respondent:
Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, Associate Professional Specialist in Theology, University of Notre Dame
Chair:
Rachel Tomas Morgan, Director of International Service Learning, Center for Social Concerns
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Lunch
Hesburgh Center Courtyard
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Panel 3: Theological/Pastoral Conversion
Discussant:
Thomas M. Kelly, Professor of Systematic Theology, Creighton University
Respondent:
Sr. Ana María Pineda, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University
Chair:
Victor Maqque, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Notre Dame
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Break
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Keynote Address 3: “Monseñor Romero: Martyr of Solidarity”
Michael E. Lee, Associate Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Introduction by:
Matthew Ashley, Chair, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Respondent:
Robert Ellsberg, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Orbis Books
3:45 pm - 4:45 pm
Tribute to Rev. Dean Brackley, SJ
Gene Palumbo, Journalist and Teacher
Guadalupe Montalvo, Casa de la Solidaridad, El Salvador
5:00 pm
Misa Salvadoreña
Hesburgh Center Lawn
Presiding:
Most Rev. Ricardo Ramírez, CSB, Bishop Emeritus of Las Cruces
Homilist:
Rev. John Keefe, CSC
With: The Church of Loretto Choir
Directed by Barbara Ziliak, Former Liturgy Director, Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross
Closing Celebration and Picnic (promptly after Mass)
Hesburgh Center Lawn
Romero Days 2013 - "Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero"
Wednesday – Saturday, March 20 – 23
Wednesday, March 20
Romero Days Film Screening, "Monsenor"
7:00 pm - Eck Visitor's Center
Thursday – Saturday, March 21 – 23
Catholic Social Tradition Conference
“Peace Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow”
McKenna Hall/Notre Dame Conference Center
Cosponsored with Center for Social Concerns; Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities; Catholic Relief Services; Catholic Social Tradition Minor; Center for Civil and Human Rights; Center for the Study of Religion and Society; Cushwa Center for American Catholicism; Department of Political Science; Department of Theology; College of Arts & Letters, Henkels Lecture Series, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts; Institute for Church Life; Institute for Latino Studies; Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; National Center for the Laity; Notre Dame Graduate School; Office of Sustainability; Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor
Friday, March 22
Julian Filochowski, CMG, OBE
Chair of the Archbishop Romero Trust in England, Former Director of CAFOD
Romero Lecture
“Romero as a Peacemaker”
8:00pm - McKenna Hall/Notre Dame Conference Center
Saturday, March 23
Romero Days Workshop
Attendance Reservation Requested
A workshop for teachers on how to incorporate a five-day mini unit using the film Monsenor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero into any theology course. Samples from the mini-unit and other social justice resources published by Ave Maria Press will be shared. The event is suitable for high school theology teachers, parish youth ministers, director's of religious education, parish social justice team members, and any others interested in using Monsenor: The Last Journey of Oscar Romero in a catechetical setting.
Ave Maria Press is a ministry of the Congregation of the Holy Cross.
Contact Christopher Sallak Christopher.A.Sallak.1@nd.edu to reserve your place in the workshop or should you have any questions.
10:00 am to 11:15 am - Ave Maria Press, 19113 Douglas Road, on the Notre Dame campus (enter through the front door on Douglas Road)
Romero Days 2012 - "Romero and the Social Teaching of the Church"
Honoring the 40th Anniversary of the 1971 Bishops' Synod on Justice and
the 30th Anniversary of Justice Education at Saint Mary's College
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
An Educational Workshop based upon the Film "Monseñor: The Last Journey of Óscar Romero"
Hesburgh Center for International Studies
(to register for the workshop, please contact Michael Amodei - mamodei@nd.edu)
4:15 pm - "Romero and the Social Themes of the Film"
Professor Margaret Pfeil, University of Notre Dame
5:15 pm - "Catechesis of the Film"
Michael Amodei, Ave Maria Press
7:00 pm - Film "Monseñor"
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
4:00 pm - Mass at the Church of Loretto, Saint Mary's College
Presider and Homilist - Bishop Kevin Dowling, CSsR
Bishop of Rustenburg, Pretoria South Africa
7:30 pm - Address "Archbishop Romero: An Icon for South Africa"
Bishop Kevin Dowling, CSSR
Madeleva Hall, Carroll Auditorium, Saint Mary's College
(free and open to the public)
Romero Days 2011 - “Archbishop Oscar Romero: Preacher and Teacher”
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
Friday, March 25, 2011
8:00 pm - The Notre Dame Conference Center (McKenna Hall) Auditorium
Cardinal Peter Turkson, the archbishop emeritus of Cape Coast, Ghana, has served as president of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (1997–2005); chancellor of the Catholic University College of Ghana; member of the National Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment; and treasurer of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). He holds a doctorate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.
Romero Days 2010
Wednesday, March 24
12:30pm
"Civil and Human Rights and the Diocese of San Marcos, Guatemala"
Lecture by Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini of Guatemala
Eck Hall of Law, Room 1130
5:15pm
Mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart
With special guests Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini and the Reverend Monsignor Carlos Quintana Puente
Thursday, March 25
12:30pm
"The Palace of Justice: A Colombian Tragedy"
Lecture by Ana Carrigan, Journalist, Author, and Cinematographer based on her bookEl Palacio de Justicia: Una Tragedia Colombiana (Icono, 2009)
Hesburgh Center Auditorium
5:30pm
VIP Reception & Dinner benefitting the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House
For more information contact Therese Hanlon at 574-631-4150 or therese.hanlon@nd.edu
8:00pm
US Premiere MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)
DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Browning Cinema
Friday, March 26
12:30pm
FTT Talks - MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Oscar Romero) - A discussion with the film's creative team
Monday, March 29
6:45pm
Screening MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)
Post-screening discussion with Timothy Matovina, Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame.
Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center
MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero)
On March 24, 1980, Monseñor Óscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was killed by a professional hit man as he stood at the altar celebrating a memorial Mass for a friend. His assassination became the catalyst for a civil war that lasted for twelve years and cost more than 75,000, mostly civilian, lives. This film tells the story of the last three years of his life.
The narrative spine of MONSEÑOR (Monseñor, the Last Journey of Óscar Romero) develops through Romero’s own words, in extracts from his Sunday homilies and from his personal diary, in which each night he recorded the events of the day and his own thoughts and reflections. The story of El Salvador as the war approaches is told through the experiences of a cross section of Salvadorans: campesinos, guerrillas, soldiers, politicians, priests, nuns, catechists—providing a chorus of voices of people who shared with Romero the tragic history of their country. As this history evolves, so too will the reasons for Romero’s murder.
There have been several films about Monseñor Romero; this one is different in several respects:
It is the first film about Romero that goes beyond the classic genre of a filmed biography, to explore and probe the contemporary significance and legacy of his life and tragic death.
It is the first film about Romero to place the Latin American campesinos at the center of the story: it was they who inspired Romero to find his mission; it was because of the relationship
he developed with them that he was killed.
Towards the end of his life, when his conviction and courage were leading him irrevocably to a “death foretold,” Romero had transcended his own small country. In the telling of this story, the film will connect Romero’s life and death to the larger story of the cycles of poverty, rural abandon, and despair that—beyond the borders of El Salvador—are today’s reality across Latin America and beyond.
The Creative Team
THEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT
Rev. Robert Pelton, csc
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Ana Carrigan
Francisco Vargas
PRODUCER
Emanuele Pasquale
DIRECTED BY
Ana Carrigan
Juliet Weber
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY & INTERVIEWS
Everardo Gonzalez
EDITED BY
Juliet Weber
Joaquin Perez
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Fabricio Villegas
WRITTEN BY
Ana Carrigan
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Eugene Palumbo
NARRATION
Eliud Porras
RESEARCHER
Margarita Herrera
ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Rodolfo Santa María
Romero Days Cosponsors
Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC)
Bishop Shaheen Leadership Fund
the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
the Center for Civil and Human Rights
the Center for Social Concerns
the Department of Theology
the Institute for Church Life
the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Campus Ministry
the Institute for Latino Studies
the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre—FTT Talks
Romero Days 2009 - "In the Footsteps of the Bishop of the World"
March 23–24, 2009
“I Shall Arise in the Salvadoran People: An Interview Project on Romero's Continuing Presence”
Cinnamon Sarver
Notre Dame Graduate Student in Theology
“Aparecida and the Latin American Church’s Road Map to Intercultural Dialogue”
Rev. Stephen Judd, MM
Specialist on inculturation
“Now I Understand”
Eugene Palumbo
Expert on the role of the Catholic Church in El Salvador
2008 Romero Days at Notre Dame
March 18–19, 2008
"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 Dam
Michael Lee
Assistant Professor of Theology, Fordham University
Chaired by Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC
2007 Romero Days
March 27–29, 2007
"Human Rights in El Salvador Today"
Judge Victoria Marina de Avilés
Supreme Court Justice, El Salvador
Neris Gonzalez
Witness, Florida Trial of Salvadoran Military
Douglass Cassel
Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights
John D. French
Associate Professor of History, Duke University
Karen Richman
Director, Migration and Border Studies, Institute for Latino Studies
"El Salvador Reform of the Judiciary"
Judge Victoria Marina de Aviles
Supreme Court Justice, El Salvador
Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet
April 4–6, 2006
"The Salvadoran Elections and the Prospects for Democracy in El Salvador"
Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens
Department of History, California State University and Kellogg Visiting Fellow
Marc Belanger
Department of Political Science, Saint Mary’s College
Douglass Cassel
Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, ND Law School
Dr. Héctor Dada Hirezi
Former deputy in the Salvadorian Assembly
Chaired by Scott Mainwaring
Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
"Travesías: Imagining the Hispanic Caribbean from the Diaspora"
Yolanda Martínez–San Miguel
"Un Hombre de Fe en Jesús de Nasaret"
Dr. Héctor Dada Hirezi
former deputy in the Salvadoran Assembly
Film and Commentary: "Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet"
Fr. Robert Pelton, C.S.C.
Director of Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC)
Archbishop Romero: Martyr and Prophet: A Bishop for the New Millennium
March 15–17, 2005
“Non Poena sed Causa: A Contemporary Understanding of Martyrdom”
Professor Lawrence Cunningham
University of Notre Dame – Department of Theology
“Romero: A Martyr for the Magisterium”
Monsignor Ricardo Urioste
Vicar General
“The Future of the Church in the Memory of Romero”
Kevin Burke, S.J.
Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Boston College
Special Interest Workshops - Theme: “Peacemaking”
“Romero as Peacemaker”
Michel Andraos
“Romero and Human Rights”
Margaret Swedish
“Challenges of Immigration”
Kristina Campbell
“Romero the Preacher”
Barbara Reid
“Globalization and Justice”
Rick Jones
“A Student Appraisal of Romero”
Jessica Brock
“Honoring Women of Service in Latin America”
Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez
Monsignor Ricardo Urioste
“Archbishop Romero: A Bishop for the New Millennium”
Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez
Remembering Romero After 9/11: Naming the Powers
Otto Maduro, Chair of Drew University's PhD Program in Religion and Society
March 23, 2004
Romero was not a victim of armed violence, according to Otto Maduro. "He was another victim of a global system of profits and privileges where those who don't learn early and well to toe the line ... end up subject to harsher means to make them toe the line," Maduro explained. Maduro warned the audience that the feasibility and hope for social, economic and political changes have all but waned in important sectors and regions of the Americas and the world, partly as a result of free-market fundamentalism. To remember Romero after 9/11, he challenged attendees to shed old answers and share "the weight of our most pressing, deep, feared questions."
Archbishop Romero: Martyr of the Option for the Poor
Don Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Bishop Emeritus of San Cristobal de Las Casas
March 18, 2003
The Catholic Church's often-mentioned preferential option for the poor "is not optional," said Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia. Ruiz, the retired bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, quoted Romero as saying, "the Christian who doesn't want to live this commitment of solidarity with the poor is not worthy of being called a Christian." The importance of solidarity with the poor is "constitutive of the Church," said Ruiz, noting that Romero came to insist upon a faith linked to social justice. He praised Romero as a man ready to recognize his own faults and ask for forgiveness and as a man who saw the need to counter violence by countering its roots in social injustice.
Monsignor Romero: A Bishop for the Third Millennium
Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga, SDB, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
March 19, 2002
"Much has been said about Monsignor Romero as a prophet and a martyr, and the testimony of his life has, without a doubt, inspired millions of men and women of all ages, even beyond the Church’s borders. Here I wish to take up another, less publicized aspect of his life but one which has come to the fore after the recent General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the theme of which was: “The Bishop, Servant of Jesus Christ for the Hope of the World.” I would like to share with you some contours of Monsignor Romero’s rich personality, which will serve as a basis for presenting him as a model bishop for the third millennium."
Romero of the Americas: Seen Through Paraguayan Eyes
Margaret Hebblethwaite, Latin American Correspondent for the London Tablet
March 20, 2001
"Who, then, is this great Romero of the Americas, and why does he matter so much to me? I first heard of him the day after he was shot, in March 1980. At the time, I was studying at the Gregorian University in Rome. We came into class that morning to be told that a bishop had been shot, and that there would be prayers for him in the big Aula during the morning break. I went along with my classmates, not knowing anything about the archbishop but struck by something in the atmosphere. I don’t expect there were many there who knew much about Romero. But there was something both deeply committed and very matter-of-fact about all those people — priests and sisters from mission territories all around the world, some from quite dangerous places — singing the Salve Regina and praying together for a brother murdered in the course of his pastoral work. As I went back to class, something in me had begun to respond to Romero."
Monseñor Oscar Romero: Human Rights Apostle
Roberto Cuéllar M., Executive Director, Interamerican Institute of Human Rights
March 21, 2000
"We were waiting for him at the cancer clinic, where he lived during his three years as Archbishop of San Salvador, but he arrived too late to join our working lunch. We talked by telephone and, for the last time, I heard his voice. It was 3:30 in the afternoon of March 24, 1980. Monseñor Romero had asked me to meet with a high-level delegation from the National Conference of Bishops, the National Council of Churches, and the United States Catholic Conference. His final interview, focusing on the violence then over-whelming El Salvador, was with these same delegates. A few minutes after 6:30 p.m. two nuns from the clinic shouted the news of his assassination through the main door of the Jesuits’ Academy in San Salvador. I ran to the building where he had been taken. Just by lifting his left arm, I knew that he was already dead."
Archbishop Romero and His Commitment to the Church
Margaret Swedish, Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico
March 16, 1999
"The pastor, the bishop understood as a “good shepherd” in a real gospel sense, was sharing a word that ignited faith in the hearts of his hearers. The institutional leader embodied in his role as bishop and in the structures of the archdiocese a word that his people recognized as the authentic reflection of their own truth. The institution was put at the service of this truth. The result was a flourishing, vibrant Church, willing to follow Jesus even to death on the cross."
The Empowering Spirit of Archbishop Romero: A Personal Testimony
Rubén Zamora, Secretary-General, Democratic Convergence of El Salvador
March 20, 1995
"All of that changed when Romero became the bishop of Santiago de Maria and began to know the poor not simply as beggars in the street but as working people struggling to survive inhuman conditions. His diocese was flooded every year during the coffee-picking season with peasants who came from all over the country to work in the cafetales, and who, after a hard day’s labor, would have to sleep on the ground. Appalled, Romero provided them with shelter in empty seminary buildings and began to wonder how the owners of the coffee fincas — Christian families who would go to church on Sundays and partake of the Eucharist — could treat their workers in such a manner. These reflections led him to examine the structural roots of poverty."
Martyrs, Heroes, and the Contemporary Church: Latin America and the United States
Archbishop Luciano Mendes de Almeida, SJ, President, Brazilian Conference of Catholic Bishops
March 24, 1988
"Sisters and brothers, I was eyewitness to the facts of March 30, 1980 which happened at the funeral of Bishop Romero in San Salvador. Suddenly we heard and saw the explosion of a big bomb in the square in front of the Cathedral. We have been witness to the suffering and anguish of the Salvadorian people, but also to their courage and maturity. El Salvador has suffered a long agony. The assassination of Bishop Romero on March 24, 1980, shocked the world. He was a faithful witness to the Gospel and he sealed that witness with his blood. Bishop Romero’s life is a vivid reminder of the price that Christians are sometimes called upon to pay for their faith."