Archbishop Miller Lecture
Archbishop J. Michael Miller on January 12, 2004 was ordained Titular Archbishop of Vertara and appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Catholic Education of the Holy See. In his honor, the John W. and Alida M. Considine Foundation has initiated the Archbishop J. Michael Miller Lecture in Catholic Studies. Archbishop Miller studied from 1974-1979 at the Gregorian University in Rome where he completed the licentiate and doctorate in Theology. He was ordained to the Basilian priesthood by Pope Paul VI on June 29, 1975. Father Miller joined the faculty of the University of St. Thomas in Houston in 1979 and was subsequently chair of Theology and Dean of the School of Theology . In 1990 he was named vice president of Academic Affairs. In 1992 he was assigned by the Vatican to serve the English section of the Secretariat of the State of the Holy See. On July, 1997, he returned to Houston to become the seventh president of the University of St. Thomas .
Archbishop Miller is a prolific writer. He has published seven books and more than 80 articles, both scholarly and popular. He is a specialist on the papacy and modern papal teaching. Among his bestselling books are The Shepherd and the Rock: Origins, Development, and Mission of the Papacy (1995) and the Encyclicals of John Paul II (2001).
Donors of the University of St. Thomas have honored Archbishop Miller with The Archbishop J. Michael Miller Chair in Catholic Studies, and the Archbishop J. Michael Miller Endowed Scholarship.
Each year the Miller Lecture invites an expert who has overcome the dichotomy of faith and life and risen to greatness precisely by embodying the values of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition in professional practice. The purpose of the Lecture Series is to extend the Catholic Studies Program to the Greater Houston Community with the hope of actively influencing and transforming culture. The Lecture Series is funded by the John W. and Alida M. Considine Foundation.
The Lecture Series was inaugurated in 2005. Dr. Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University , and member of the President's Commission on Bioethics, gave the inaugural lecture in Catholic Studies February 2, 2005, Public Morality: The Obligations of Government, the Responsibility of Citizens.
The second annual Miller Lecture The New Feminism of John Paul II and its Impact on the Catholic Professional Woman, was provided by Mary Ellen Bork, co-founder with Mary Ann Glendon of Women Affirming Life.
William L. Saunders, Senior Fellow and Director Center for Human Life and Bioethics Family Research Council, presented the third annual Miller Lecture, International Law, the Family, and the U.S. Supreme Court. |
