CNR LECTURE SERIES
FINDING GOD IN THE
GALLERIES
FOCUSES ON RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN ART AND FAITH
NEW ROCHELLE, NY,
November 14, 2008 – Beginning on December 2, 2008,
The College of New Rochelle’s (CNR) Office of Mission & Identity
will present a four-part lecture series “Finding God in the Galleries”
by the Reverend Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.,
president emeritus of
Georgetown University and past president of the Catholic Theological
Society of America. The lectures, which follow the liturgical
year:
Advent, Ordinary Time, Lent and Eastertide, will reflect on great art,
especially in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and
how art and faith enlighten each other, sometimes correct each other,
and often challenge each other.
All lectures will take place at 7:00 p.m.
in Romita Auditorium, Mooney
Center, on CNR’s Main Campus in New Rochelle on the following dates:
December 2, 2008
Advent
February 10, 2009
Ordinary Time
March 3, 2009
Lent
April 14, 2009
Eastertide
Born in New York City, Fr. Leo attended Iona Preparatory School before
earning his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1956. He
studied at the Universite de Lyon on a Fulbright scholarship and
received a doctorate in 1961 from Fordham University and a doctoral
degree in theology in 1971 from the University of Munster in Germany,
where he studied under Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner. Fr. Leo
currently serves on The College of New Rochelle’s Board of Trustees.
