Conference participants have access to the Moreau Seminary kitchen at all times. This means the following. There is always a pot of coffee (regular and decaf) brewing and tea available; Most bring travel mugs and water bottles along for the duration of the conference.

There is time set aside in the daily schedule for rest and relaxation.  Some participants use this time to rest while others head to the gym or take a walk around the one-mile dirt trail behind the seminary.  In addition to rest periods, we have snack breaks during the day and evening socials with beer/wine/soda/pop.

Last but not least, attire during the conference is casual (except some include a nice outfit for mass on Sunday morning in The Log Chapel). The conference room in which we gather is air conditioned, but the Dining Hall and Lower Rec Room where we hang out each evening is not (although the latter manages to stay modestly cool throughout the day and evening hours).

If one is driving to the conference, here are directions: Moreau Seminary is located on Douglas Rd. approximately ¼ east of N. Michigan St (also called state road 933 or Business 31). (Those of you mapquest-ing can find the proximate area by looking up a hotel at the corner of Douglas and N. Michigan, the Inn at St. Mary’s, 53993 State Road 933, South Bend, IN.) Proceeding east on Douglas from N Michigan St, go to the second entrance on the right, where there will a metal gate (open for us in the afternoon and early evening only) to go through and park. That is the front door or the Seminary where someone will be waiting for you. If you enter through the next entrance 100 yds further, there is no gate (and so those arriving late must enter here), but once you park you need to walk back across the grass to the other entrance to get in.

The conference begins with a social and evening meal on Thursday evening (starting at 5 pm) and concludes after mass and brunch on Sunday (mass at 9 am and brunch at The Morris Inn from 10-12 Noon). The Friday and Saturday schedule begins at 8 am with breakfast together in Moreau Dining Hall, followed by morning sessions, mass then lunch, afternoon sessions, late afternoon break time, and evening meal and social time in the Lower Rec Room of Moreau Seminary. Conference participants are urged to make their travel arrangements such that they can be a part of all the activities Thursday through Sunday.

We will post a more detailed scheduled toward the end of May.

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Kent Lasnoski.  “Setting the Captives Free: Historical Precedence for Embryo Adoption in Christ’s Mission and the Catholic Tradition?”

Andy Alexis-Baker.  “Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Non-Human Animals”

Matthew Whelan.  ” Land Reform and Moral Theology”

Beth Haile.  ” Mother Teresa’s ‘Vice’ (And What It Can Teach Us About the Most Praiseworthy Moral Virtue)”

David Elliot.  “Renewing the Bonds between Philosophical and Theological Ethics: the Virtue of Hope as the Way Forward”

Patrick Clark.  “Christocentric Exemplarism Reconsidered”

Mark Ryan.  “The Church, the Modern World and Moral Theology”

Benjamin Peter.  “Sectarian or a ‘Higher Way’: John Hugo and Contemporary Catholic Social Ethics”

Justin Menno.  “The Mystery of the Social: On the Nature of the ‘Social’ and the Origins of Social Ethics in Catholic Moral Theology”

Matthew Sherman.  “Historical Inroads: A Proposal for Theologies of the Family”

Matthew Rose.  “Aquinas on the Art of Teaching”

On this tenth anniversary of New Wine, New Wineskins, the Senior Scholar is William Mattison III, Associate Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America, author of Introducing Moral Theology: True Happiness and the Virtues (Brazos Press, 2008), and the founding member of New Wine, New Wineskins.