Dear Friends of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies:
I hope this newsletter finds you well. Below you can find information on our upcoming programs, as well as recent news about the CCJS. On Monday, February 3rd, we are excited to welcome Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Vatican's Angelicum University, Rome. Rabbi Bemporad will deliver several lectures during the first week of February, at Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Tampa, and at Saint Leo University. Dates, times, and RSVP information is below. We hope you can join us.
Respectfully,
Dr. Matthew Tapie
Director, Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies
& Assistant Professor of Theology
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RSVP for lectures by Rabbi Jack Bemporad
Professor of Interreligious Studies at the Vatican’s Angelicum University, Rome,
& Director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding
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Rabbi Bemporad
is the director of the nonprofit Center for Interreligious Understanding, which he founded in 1992. Bemporad began teaching at Vatican universities in 1998 and has been Director of the John Paul II Center and Professor of Interreligious Studies, at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), in Rome since 2009. Concurrently, he also serves as Rabbi of Congregation Micah in Cresskill, NJ. Bemporad is recognized internationally for his diplomatic skill and leadership in matters of religious understanding and reconciliation. He is one of the rare Jewish leaders to have had a personal audience with Pope John XXIII, and numerous personal audiences with Pope John Paul II.
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“God, Science, and Religion”
Monday, February 3rd | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Dessert reception to follow
Location: Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Tampa, FL
“Faith and the Message of the Prophets”
Tuesday, February 4th | 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Location: Saint Leo University, Student Community Center Boardrooms.
“Prophetic Judaism and its Significance for Our Time”
Thursday, February 6th | Lunch & Learn 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location: Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Tampa, FL
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The lectures are free and open to the public, and
co-sponsored by the CCJS, and Congregation Schaarai Zedek, Tampa, FL
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Dr. Ruth Langer receives 15th Eternal Light Award
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On Tuesday, November 5th, 2019, Dr. Ruth Langer, Professor of Jewish Studies in the Theology Department at Boston College, delivered a lecture entitled "Rabbis and the Ancient Synagogue" to a standing room only audience at Saint Leo University. Later that that evening, Dr. Langer was awarded the 15th Eternal Light Award, which honors scholars who have made contributions to Catholic-Jewish studies. The recipient of the award is selected each year by the CCJS Advisory Board. You can view Dr. Langer's lecture, "Rabbis and the Ancient Synagogue,"
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From left to right:
CCJS director Dr. Matthew Tapie, Saint Leo University President Dr. Jeffrey Senese, Dr. Ruth Langer, and co-founder of the CCJS, Rabbi James Rudin.
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CCJS Receives Grant from Duquesne University
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In November of 2019, the CCJS received a $4,000 Catholicism and the Common Good grant, from the Center for Catholic Faith and Culture at Duquesne University. The grant, which is designed to fund innovative centers at Catholic universities, is supported by the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant will fund a scholarly consultation at the CCJS entitled "The Theological Interpretation of Scripture after
Nostra Aetate
," which will gather eight to ten Jewish and Catholic theologians for three days of study and dialogue in Spring 2021.
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On February 13, 2020, Dr. Tapie will deliver a lecture on the Mortara affair at a meeting of the Mobile Christian-Jewish Dialogue of Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama. The Mortara affair refers to the Vatican’s 1858 kidnapping of a six-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara.
Mortara had been secretly baptized as an infant by his Christian housekeeper after allegedly falling ill
. Since the law of the papal states was that all Christians receive a Christian education, Edgardo was removed from his parents. The infamous incident is one of the most painful chapters in the modern history of Catholic-Jewish relations, and the subject of an upcoming film by Steven Spielberg.
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