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Catholicism, Global Development and the Professional Life
The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage hosted a panel discussion on Loyola鈥檚 Water Tower Campus as part of its Catholicism and the Professional Life series. This series, which takes place each spring semester, seeks to connect faculty from across Loyola鈥檚 Professional Schools in conversation about the role of Catholicism in their disciplines today.
This year鈥檚 panel鈥�Catholicism, Global Development, and the Professional Life鈥攅xplored the intersection of Catholicism, global development, and the professions through a shared engagement with economist and writer Robert Calderisi鈥檚 recent book Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church and World Development (Yale UP, 2013). In this book, Calderisi explores 鈥渢he tensions and paradoxes within the Catholic Church鈥� when it comes to global development鈥攃omplicity with genocide in Rwanda and dictatorship in Argentina on the one hand, and the defense of human rights in Brazil and El Salvador on the other.
In addition to Mr. Calderisi, six members of Loyola鈥檚 faculty participated in our panel discussion: John Breen (School of Law), Patricia Felkins (School of Communication), Maria de Haymes (School of Social Work), Lee Hubbell (School of Education), Tassos Malliaris (School of Business), and Brian Schmisek (Institute of Pastoral Studies).
