John Paul II's Theology of the Body Conference

Thursday May 17, 2007

Pre-Conference Events

Registration Desk

2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Franziskushaus Lobby

First Dinner

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Mensa

Traveler's Mass

9:00 pm
Kartause Church

Friday May 18, 2007

Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Welcome and Orientation

8:45 am - 9:15 am

Prälatensaal
(All lectures will take place in the Prälatensaal)

Morning Keynote

9:30 - 10:45 am

Three Kinds of Personalism: St. John of the Cross, Kant, Scheler and John Paul II
Michael Waldstein
International Theological Institute

Session 1

10:45 am - 11:45 am

Response to Waldstein: A Body that Expresses a Person: Max Scheler's Impact on John Paul II's Theology of the Body
Peter J. Colosi
Franciscan University, Austrian Program

Mass

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Session II

2:30 - 4:15 pm

The Influence of Vatican Council II on John Paul II's Theology of the Body
Rev. Jaroslaw Kupczak, O.P.
Pontifical Academy of Theology, Cracow, Poland

The Phenomenological Roots of John Paul's Ethos of the Gift
Michael Raiger
Boston College and Our Lady of Grace Seminary

Coffee Break

4:15 - 4:45 pm

First Panel Discussion: Europe and America

4:45 - 6:30 pm

Europe at the Crossroads
Gudrun Kugler-Lang
Europe4Christ

How Theology of the Body is Impacting the Catholic Church in the U.S.
Matthew Pinto
Ascension Press

Integrating Theology of the Body into Everyday Life
Anastasia Northrop
Theology of the Body International Alliance

Dinner Break

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Evening

8:30 pm

Putting Faces on the Dramatis Personae of the Theology of the Body
Theophany Catholic Theatre Company

Holy Hour and Confession

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Kartause Church

Saturday May 19, 2007

Breakfast

7:00 am - 8:30 am

Morning Keynote:

9:00 am - 10:00 am

The Meaning of the Body as 'Gift in the Divine Image': John Paul's Theology of the Body and the Increasingly Virtual Culture of our Time.
Sister Timothy Prokes, FSE
Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College

Session III

10:15 am - 12:00 pm

Person, Transcendence and the Human Body: a Personalistic Anthropology and Metaphysics of Spousal Love in John Paul II and Realist Phenomenology
Josef Seifert
International Academy of Philosophy

The Significance of the Body in John Paul II's Theological Anthropology of Women
Michele M. Schumacher
University of Fribourg and The European Institute of Anthropological Studies, Philanthropos

Mass

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Session IV

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Chastity Refined: The Finality of Sex and the Value of the Person
Donald P. Asci
Franciscan University, Austrian Program

Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization
Christopher West
Theology of the Body Institute

Coffee Break

4:15 - 4:45 pm

Second Panel Discussion: Theology of the Body and the Laity

4:45 - 6:30 pm

Theology of the Body for Young and Old: Visual Aids, Power Point, and Sacramentality
Katrina J. Zeno
John Paul II Resource Center for Theology of the Body and Culture

Theology of The Body: A New Language for Understanding Human Sexuality and Marriage
Tara Seyfer
Imago Dei, Inc., and The Family Life Office of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia

The Theology of the Body for the Very Young
Lisa Lickona

Dinner Break

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Q&A Session

8:30 pm - 9:30 pm
(Based on written questions, this will be an opportunity for many questions to be posed to all speakers)

Reception

9:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Baroque Library

Sunday May 20, 2007

Early Morning Sunday Mass

6:00 am
Kartause Church

Breakfast

7:00 - 8:30 am

Final Session

8:30 - 10:15 am

John Paul II's Theology of the Body, Morality, and Anthropology
William E. May
John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family

The Theology of the Body: Image of the Divine
Rev. Thomas Loya
Relevant Radio, Tabor Life Institute, TOBIA
Iconographer

Divine Liturgy

11:00 am

Lunch

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm