March 7, 2023

IDI event "Healing and Reconciliation: A Nuu-Chal-Nulth Perspective" on March 1. Pictured, left to right: Dr. Jason Wirth (IDI Chair), Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez (ICTC Executive Director), IDI Speaker Dr. Richard Atleo, Jessica Palmer (ICTC Associate Director), and Fr. Patrick Twohy, SJ.

As winter quarter concludes next week, we are grateful for our guest speakers and all of you who attended the events in person or online. In keeping with our theme of healing and reconciliation, Fr. Bryan Massingale joined us in February for the Catholic Heritage Lecture "A Spirituality of Racial Metanoia" and Dr. Richard Atleo was the Winter Interreligious Dialogue Speaker, giving a lecture on the Nuu-Chal-Nulth perspective on healing and reconciliation; links to both event recordings are below. Also, please save the date for our spring events with Valarie Kaur, Fr. James Martin, SJ, and Dr. Oludamini Ogunnaike - dates and RSVP links below!

Signs of the Times

• Witness & Grace Conversations: Ukraine: A Year at War (Webinar recording, Global Sisters Report, 3/2)
• Cardinal McElroy responds to his critics on sexual sin, the Eucharist, and LGBT and divorced/remarried Catholics (America, 3/2)
• Cardinal Gregory: Pope Francis makes Americans in both parties ‘uncomfortable’ (America, 3/1)
• Pope Francis has condemned LGBTQ criminalization. Now what? - Opinion piece by Sr. Gramick of New Ways Ministry (NCR, 2/27)

The 10th Anniversary of Pope Francis' pontificate is March 13, 2023!

• Register for "A Dialogue with Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., on the Tenth Anniversary of the Election of Pope Francis: Siblings All, Signs of the Times, and the Social Teaching of Pope Francis" on March 13 (Georgetown University)
• Listen to "Just Politics: Ten years of an eco-pope" (US Catholic)
• Watch "The Francis Factor at Ten Years: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration on a Decade of Dialogue and Leadership" (Georgetown University)