Man and Woman in Dialogue

on Identity, Complementarity, and Mission

June 26-27, 2019

Washington, DC

 

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The Agenda is available to download here. Abstracts are linked below. 

Tuesday, June 25

Welcome cocktail hour and dinner (for CWF Women only) at Teddy & The Bully Bar, 1823 L Street NW. Walking directions from the Cosmos Club can be found here. Natalie will meet guests at the Cosmos Club at 5:45 pm to walk as a group (or assist in getting a taxi).

5:45 PM	Meet Natalie in the Cosmos Club lobby to walk to dinner (if applicable)
6:00 – 8:00 PM	Dinner

Wednesday, June 26

Schedule subject to adjustments.

8:00 – 8:30 AM	Mass	Celebrant: Fr. Paul Check
	Gold Room
8:30 – 9:00 AM	Breakfast
	Crentz Room
MORNING	SESSION
Powell	Room
9:15 – 9:30 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks – Context: Church and Culture in Crisis
	Mary Rice Hasson, Deborah Savage
9:30 AM	Panel I:	The Science of Sex Differences
	Ricardo Luzondo	Male and Female Neurobiology: Differences that Matter
	Paul Vitz	Men and Women: Differences and Complementarity: Evidence from Pscyhology
	Break
10:30 AM	Panel II:	Metaphysics and Theology of Sexual Difference
	Deborah Savage	Man and Woman: Genesis 1-3 Revisited
	John Finley	The Metaphysics of Gender: A Thomistic Account
	Q&A, Discussion
12:30 – 1:30 PM	Lunch
	Crentz Room
AFTERNOON	SESSION
Powell	Room
1:30 PM	Panel III:	Genius of Man and Woman
	Paul Gondreau	The Masculinity of Christ
	Carrie Gress	Mary the Mother of God, Icon of Femininity
	Break
2:45 PM	Panel IV:	Man, Woman, and the Domestic Church
	Fr. Christian Raab, OSB	In Search of the Masculine Genius: The Contribution of Walter J. Ong
	Timothy Fortin	Reciprocal Generativity: Masculinity, Femininity, and Fecundity
	Q&A, Discussion
5:00 – 6:30 PM	Break
6:30 – 9:30 PM	Dinner	Members Dining Room
	Speaker: Michael Waldstein	Reception as the Masculine Role in Nietzsche and John Paul II

Thursday, June 27

8:00 – 8:30 AM	Mass	Celebrant: Fr. Paul Check
	Gold Room
8:30 – 9:00 AM	Breakfast
	Crentz Room
CONCLUDING	SESSION
Powell	Room
9:15  AM	Panel V:	Gender Ideology and Complementarity
	Jennifer Miller	Redeeming Gender
	Angela Franks	Respondent
	Q&A, Discussion Break
11:00 AM	Panel VI:	Man and Woman: Relationship and Mission
	Fr. Paul Check	‘For the Sake of the Kingdom’: the Incompatibility of Homosexuality and the Priesthood
	Susan Selner-Wright	Respondent

	Lucia Luzondo	A Shifting Demographic: Cultural Diversity and the Mission of the Laity
12:30 PM	Working Lunch	continued discussion
2:30 – 3:00 PM	Conclusions and Wrap-up

Contact

Mary Hasson

mhasson@eppc.org

202-715-3492

Natalie Robertson

nrobertson@eppc.org

202-715-3515

 

Presented by The Catholic Women’s Forum, a program of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

co-sponsored by the Siena Symposium