The CCS Public Lectures – as part of the Franciscan Studies Summer School 2025
The Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University is hosting two online public lectures, as part of our Franciscan Studies Summer School. Our guest speakers are Professor John McCafferty and Sr Margaret Carney.
Although registration for the Summer School is now closed, the public lectures remain open for booking. Those who have already registered for the Summer School will automatically be sent the joining link for these lectures.
CCS Public Lecture: Professor John McCafferty (UCD)
‘Sandals, Spaniards and Scotus: Defending Francis and his Friars 400 Years After his Death’
Wednesday 11 June, 6pm BST Online
Tickets: £5, free to those registered on Week 1 of the Franciscan Studies Online Summer School
Booking via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3EB3dDG
John McCafferty is a Professor of History at UCD and a Honorary Professor at CCS Durham. His research is concerned with religious change in early modern Ireland and Britain with special reference to the role of the Franciscan family. He is General Editor with James Kelly of the Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism (2023). He is Chair of the Irish Manuscripts Commission and Director of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute. He is also President of the Board of the Collegium Sancti Bonaventurae (Quaracchi), Rome.
CCS Public Lecture: Sr Margaret Carney
‘Francis of Assisi, Francis of Rome and a Church Re-Imagined’
Wednesday 18 June, 6pm BST Online
Tickets £5, free for those registered on the Franciscan Foundations for Moral Theology course as part of the Franciscan Studies Online Summer School.
Booking via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/3EIpYp2
The synod on synodality ushered in a vision and an exercise leading to a dramatic re-centering of the Catholic Church. What is the “through line” connecting the magisterium of Pope Francis to the renaissance in Christian life created by the charism of St. Francis of Assisi? Eight centuries separate the two. Are we guilty of magical thinking when we try to connect their remarkable impact?
For any queries about the two online public lectures, please email ccsfranciscan.admin@durham.ac.uk.
