2018 Even Unto Death: Embracing the Love of the Cross
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Invited Speakers:
Sr. Ann Astell: Mary, Woman at the Foot of the Cross
Fr. Kevin Grove, C.S.C.: Bringing Hope: The Theology of Ave Crux Spes Unica
Christina Jaloway: The Waiting is the Cross
Suzy Younger: Two Mother's Gifts: The Sacrificial Love of Adoption
Sam Guzman (The Catholic Gentleman): The Cross: The Revelation of God's Glory
Rev. Dr. John Sullivan, O.C.D.: The Science of the Cross by Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Marriana Leach (The Culture Project): God Said "It is Good": A Practical Discussion of Identity, Sex, and Virtue
Fr. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C.: Man of God: Lessons for Young Men about Life, Sex, Friendship, Vocation, and Loving with the Heart of Christ
Dr. Timothy O'Malley: The Cruciform Nature of Love
Sr. Agnes Therese Davis, TOR.: The Glorious Freedom of the Children of God: The Cross of Religious Poverty as a Sign of Glory
Madeline Running: Cruciformity of Family Life
Dr. Nathaniel Peters: Beauty and the Cross
Submitted Papers
Mariele Courtois: Whose Submission? Which Will?: Toward an Understanding of the Cross in Holy Matrimony through the Feminism of Edith Stein
John Michael Hogue: Desirous and Disciplined Freedom: Accepting Christ’s Invitation to Cruciform Masculinity
Catherine Yanko: Cruciformity as Healing for Sexuality
Shaun Evans: Egoism from the Cross? Christianity’s Rejection of a Kantian Dichotomy
Catherine Beigel: Self-Actualization in the Cross of Christ
Colleen Halpin: What’s in a Name?: Edith Stein’s Search for Self-Knowledge through Prayer, Image, and Saintly Companions”
Jacob Lindle: Eyes I Dare Not Meet in Dreams: St. Maximilian Kolbe in Auschwitz
Christopher Damian: Birth through the Cross: Francis of Assisi, Asceticism, and Christian Love
Bea Cuasay: Learning from the Life of Saint Theresa of Avila: On Love and Suffering
Stephanie Reuter: Beauty Who Saves: Exploring Cruciform Love and Grotesque Beauty with Ratzinger, Balthasar, and O’Connor
Ali Coffman: The Beauty of Suffering: Christian Aesthetics and the Poetry of Anna Kamienska
Simon Brake: “I Have Lived Very Much More Than I Have Philosophized’: Invocations of Mysticism in Edith Stein’s Later Thought
Allison Renouard: The Ascent to Love through Darkness: Understanding Edith Stein’s The Science of the Cross through Lewis’ Mythic Interpretation of Divine Love
Jillian Langford: Suffering, a Joyful Mystery
Henry Christopherson: A Shared Cross: Fyodor Dostoevsky and Communal Suffering