Religious Liberty in a Culture of Self-Invention

Speakers

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  Bishop Kevin Rhoades Chairman, Committee for Religious Liberty
  

  Bishop Kevin Rhoades

  Chairman, Committee for Religious Liberty

  Installed as 9th bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend on January 13, 2010, Most Reverend Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades is the son of the late Charles and Mary Rhoades, and the brother of Charles Rhoades and Robin McCracken. He was born November 26, 1957, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, located in Schuylkill County in the Diocese of Allentown, and baptized at Saint Canicus Church there. He grew up in Lebanon, PA, where he was a member of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish. He attended the former Saint Mary’s School in Lebanon and graduated from Lebanon Catholic High School in 1975.

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  Marc DeGirolami St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
  

  Marc DeGirolami

  St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law
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  Anthony Picarello Executive Director, St. John Paul II National Shrine
  

  Anthony Picarello

  Executive Director, St. John Paul II National Shrine

  Executive Director Anthony R. Picarello Jr. oversees the Shrine’s development and coordinates relations between the Shrine and the Knights of Columbus headquarters in New Haven.

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  D.C. Schindler Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology Ph.D. Program Advisor
  

  D.C. Schindler

  Professor of Metaphysics and Anthropology Ph.D. Program Advisor

  Dr. Schindler’s work is concerned above all with shedding light on contemporary cultural challenges and philosophical questions by drawing on the resources of the classical Christian tradition. His principal thematic focus is metaphysics and philosophical anthropology, but he also works in political philosophy, phenomenology, the philosophy of science, the philosophy of religion, and philosophical theology. His main historical areas are ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and Neoplatonism), German philosophy (especially Hegel and Heidegger), and Catholic philosophy (especially Aquinas and 20th Century Thomism).

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  Melissa Moschella Professor of the Practice, Philosophy
  

  Melissa Moschella

  Professor of the Practice, Philosophy

  Melissa Moschella is a philosopher whose work spans the fields of ethics, political philosophy, and law. Her areas of special expertise include natural law theory, biomedical ethics, and the family (especially parental rights).

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  Abigail Favale Professor of the Practice, Theology & Literature
  

  Abigail Favale

  Professor of the Practice, Theology & Literature

  Abigail is a writer and professor whose work lies at the intersection of Catholic theology, literature, and women’s studies. Her abiding interest as a writer and scholar is the meaning and dignity of woman, and her work explores sexual difference and embodiment in the Catholic imagination.

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  Helen M. Alvaré Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty
  

  Helen M. Alvaré

  Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty

  Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, where she teaches Family Law, Law and Religion, and Property Law. She publishes on matters concerning marriage, parenting, non-marital households, and the First Amendment religion clauses. She is faculty advisor to the law school’s Civil Rights Law Journal, and the Latino/a Law Student Association, a Member of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life (Vatican City), a board member of Catholic Relief Services, a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS’ Section on Law and Religion, and an ABC news consultant. She cooperates with the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations as a speaker and a delegate to various United Nations conferences concerning women and the family.

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  Paul Scherz Associate Professor of Moral Theology
  

  Paul Scherz

  Associate Professor of Moral Theology