2018 Hesburgh Lecture Series
More than 50 attendees engaged in collegiality and conversation at the recent Hesburgh Lecture Series, “Recent Catholic Social Thought: A Spirituality for Business Life” at The Basilica of Saint Mary in Minneapolis in late August 2018.
Reverend Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., Ph.D., ’61, ’69, M.A. highlighted notable Church documents regarding business, the points of continuity with the Catholic social tradition, and the prospects for developing a spirituality for business life. Ranging from the Centesimus Annus (1991) to The Vocation of the Business Leader (2012), and the 2015 Encyclical on the Environment (Laudato Si’), Williams asserted the Church has provided excellent resources for business people.
Williams is a faculty member of the Mendoza College of Business and is director for the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business at The University of Notre Dame. Williams is the editor or author of 20 books as well as numerous journal articles on business ethics. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the three-person Board of Directors of the United Nations Global Compact Foundation. He has served as a visiting professor in the University of Cape Town in Africa and Kyung Hee University in Korea. He is an ordained priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross.
The event is an ongoing partnership with the Notre Dame Club of Minnesota, the Basilica of Saint Mary, and the Veritas Institute of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas.
Reverend Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., Ph.D., ’61, ’69, M.A. highlighted notable Church documents regarding business, the points of continuity with the Catholic social tradition, and the prospects for developing a spirituality for business life. Ranging from the Centesimus Annus (1991) to The Vocation of the Business Leader (2012), and the 2015 Encyclical on the Environment (Laudato Si’), Williams asserted the Church has provided excellent resources for business people.
Williams is a faculty member of the Mendoza College of Business and is director for the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business at The University of Notre Dame. Williams is the editor or author of 20 books as well as numerous journal articles on business ethics. In 2006, he was appointed a member of the three-person Board of Directors of the United Nations Global Compact Foundation. He has served as a visiting professor in the University of Cape Town in Africa and Kyung Hee University in Korea. He is an ordained priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross.
The event is an ongoing partnership with the Notre Dame Club of Minnesota, the Basilica of Saint Mary, and the Veritas Institute of the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas.