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View Transcripts, Video of Archbishop Chaput Lectures
3/8/2010
Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Archdiocese of Denver, visited  Houston March 1-3 to give three lectures on the topics of faith, health, politics and Catholic education at the University of St. Thomas and Houston Baptist University.
Chaput, a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, was ordained a priest in 1970. Pope John Paul II appointed him bishop of Rapid City, S.D., in 1988 and archbishop of Denver, making him the first Native American archbishop, in 1997. He served for three years as a White House-appointed commissioner with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He is the author of Living the Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics (Servant) and Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life (Doubleday).
On Monday, March 1, Archbishop Chaput was invited to speak on the Houston Baptist University campus. His lecture, titled “Christianity in American Political Life,” was presented in coordination with the John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World, which was initiated through the generosity of the Strake Foundation. UST’s Professor of philosophy Dr. John Hittinger serves as the director of the John Paul II Forum.
In the speech, the Archbishop commemorated the 50th anniversary of the August 1960 visit to Houston by President John F Kennedy to discuss issue of the relationship of Church and state and how as a Catholic he would relate his faith to public life. Archbishop Chaput indicated some of the problems with the position taken by Kennedy and proposed a more nuanced view about how Catholics should engage public affairs.
The transcript and a video of this event are available.
On Tuesday, March 2, the Archbishop generously agreed to give two talks for the University of St. Thomas. Over a breakfast, he explored the Catholic mission and identity in Catholic Higher Education.
The transcript and a video of this event are available.
Archbishop Chaput gave the 2009 Archbishop J. Michael Miller Lecture on the subject of health care titled, “The implications of current health care initiatives for Catholic medical professionals.” It was presented at the Hilton Houston Plaza Medical Center and sponsored by the John W. and Alida Considine Foundation. The event was coordinated by Sister Paula Jean Miller, FSE, director of Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas.
Each year the Miller lecture invites an expert who has overcome the dichotomy of faith and life and risen to the greatness precisely by embodying the values of the Catholic Intellectual tradition, this year’s J. Michael Miller award was given to Dr. Herbert P. Edmundson, Jr. in the name of all his colleagues striving to link their medical profession with their faith. Edmundson is a neurologist and president and CEO of Memorial Neurological Association. He also serves on the UST Board of Directors.
The transcript of this event is available.
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