Regis University Begins Spring 2012 Catholic Studies Lecture Series

Regis University’s Spring 2012 speaker series, Catholicism in the Modern World, begins Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in the St. John Francis Regis Chapel on the Lowell Campus. Jesuit Father Thomas P. Rausch, will present, “Vatican II: Fifty Years After”.

Fr. Rausch is a professor of Theological Studies and a T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A specialist in the areas of Christology, ecclesiology, and ecumenism, he has published 17 books and over 230 articles and reviews. Several of his most popular books will be available for purchase before and after the presentation in the chapel narthex.

From 1981 to 1985, Rausch served as director of Campus Ministry at LMU. In 1983-1984 he was appointed by the Secretariat for Christian Unity as Catholic Tutor to the Ecumenical Institute, the World Council of Churches study center at Bossey, Switzerland. He was rector of the Jesuit community at Loyola Marymount from 1988 to 1994 and chair of the department of Theological Studies from 1994 to 2002.

Rausch was a member of the U.S. Catholic/Southern Baptist Conversation 1994-2001 and one of the signatories of the Richard John Neuhaus/Charles Colson Evangelicals and Catholics Together 1997 document, “The Gift of Salvation.” In 2001 he was appointed to the Roman Catholic/World Evangelical Alliance Consultation and serves as co-chair of the Los Angeles Catholic-Evangelical Committee.

He is presently a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation, USA. He also co-chairs the Theological Commission of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and is a member of the Editorial Commission for The Tidings.

All of the lectures in the series are free and open to the public. For more information on the lectures, contact Sr. Peg Maloney at 303-964-5715 or pmaloney@regis.edu