Peter Meehan

Historian, President/Vice Chancellor, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo

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In conversation with Synod delegates Prof. Cathy Clifford and Bishop Alain Faubert at the Concerned Lay Catholics’ “Journey of Encounter - Pilgrims of Hope Embracing Synodality” Conference, hosted by St. Jerome’s University.

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With VPAD Carol Ann MacGregor and tonight’s featured speaker in St. Jerome’s Lectures in Catholic Experience, Homeboy Industries founder Gregory Boyle, SJ, visiting The Working Centre in downtown Kitchener

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WOW- - this is beautiful and accurate:

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@LindaHazelden @ChrisRoehrig Wonderful!

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With Retreat Leader Greg Kennedy and the first cohort of St. Jerome’s Certificate in Catholic Leadership students at the Ignatius Jesuit Centre in Guelph, Ontario

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Join us on March 20 at 7:30 p.m. for the next Lectures in Catholic Experience, featuring Canadian theologian Dr. Catherine Clifford for her talk, "From Vatican II to a Synodal Church." This is a free lecture, please register:
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Don't miss this opportunity of nominating for the 2025 alumni and community awards, open until March 31, 2025.
For nomination criteria and award details, check out: https://t.co/MqasXkKhQr

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The Canadian International Council and St. Jerome's University's History Department are hosting a free event on February 10th at 6:30 p.m. with John Ibbitson in the Academic Centre, Room 2003.

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Dr. Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, and our featured speaker for tonight’s Lecture in Catholic Experience (“ A Muslim Theologian Teaching at a Catholic University“), signing our Jubilee Door of Hope at St. Jerome’s University

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In honour of Remembrance Day our Library team, has created the following displays to pay tribute to those that made the ultimate sacrifice. #StJeromesUniversity #StJeromesUniversity #RemembranceDay

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Today St. Jerome’s was honoured to welcome retired Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci, who spoke to our Legal Studies students on “Canada and Indigenous People: Towards a Better Relationship.”

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@JamesMartinSJ @ACJamieson St. Jerome’s University is proud of our esteemed alumnus, Professor Catherine Clifford, and we are looking forward to her return to our campus in March 2025 to deliver one of our featured Lectures in Catholic Experience!

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Meet the Synod delegates: Sometimes data is sorely needed at the Synod. And the other day, Catherine Clifford, an esteemed Catholic theologian, provided just that. (I can share this because she later shared it at a press conference.) The Synod is a time of open discussion, conversation, and discernment. But sometimes it can be rather subjective. Many people—including myself—offer their own admittedly valuable but sometime subjective and personal perspectives, but hard data can go missing. That’s why it was so refreshing that Professor Clifford noted that since the Second Vatican Council, at least 2/3 of all dioceses around the world have never held a diocesan synod. That’s a shocking statistic if you think about how much Vatican II and Paul VI and later popes recommended the synodal path to the entire church. I was so grateful for that bit of data, which, from the response in the room, clearly surprised people. But that’s how Catherine Clifford has been since the beginning of the Synod: she’s a learned, thoughtful, and articulate theologian whose interventions and comments are always, always, spot on. That’s probably not surprising if you know that she is professor of systematic and historical theology and founding director of the Center for Research on Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism at Saint Paul University, in Ottawa. The perfect academic background for a theologian at the Synod. It’s so important to have not only good Catholic theologians here, but good Catholic women theologians. I can’t think of a better person to have been elected to the Synod and I’m so happy she’s here. So are we all. Please keep Professor Clifford and all the delegates in your prayers. #Synodfriends
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Congratulations to Dr. Rosemarie Burton Spohn (BA '90) as this year's recipient of the Fr. Norm Choate, C.R., Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award to be presented at this year's Feast of St. Jerome.

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Congratulations to Sister Marie Taylor as this year's recipient of the John R. and Kay Sweeney Award for Catholic Leadership. Sister Marie is also the keynote speaker at the Feast of St. Jerome on October 5th.

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Co-Directors Galen Watts, Sarah Wilkens Laflamme and Carol Ann MacGregor at today’s launch of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Societal Futures at St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo

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University of Waterloo Sociologist Galen Watts discusses the decline of institutional religion and the rise of spirituality in tonight’s Lecture in Catholic Experience at St. Jerome’s University

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Welcome back to St. Jerome’s University President-Emeritus, Dr. Michael Higgins, our first speaker in the 2024-25 SJU Lectures in Catholic Experience.

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Today, we commemorate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Let us listen to their voices, honor their cultures, and support their rights.

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