Religious Scholar Neuhaus Speaks on Campus

One of the foremost authorities on the role of religion in the contemporary world visited Valparaiso University in February to deliver the 2007 Albert G. Huegli Lecture on Church-Related Higher Education.

Father Richard John Neuhaus

Father Richard John Neuhaus is president of The Institute on Religion and Public Life, a nonpartisan interreligious research and education institute in New York City.

At Valpo, Neuhaus spoke on “The Church’s Heart for Learning.” Prior to the lecture, he conducted a morning mass at St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Student Center and met with Lutheran and Roman Catholic students, faculty, staff and local church leaders for a breakfast discussion on the theme “State of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Conversation.”

Neuhaus was ordained as a Lutheran minister and served 17 years as pastor of an African-American congregation in Brooklyn. He converted to Catholicism and was ordained as a priest in 1991, and has played a leading role in organizations dealing with civil rights, international justice and ecumenism.