The Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture Series

The Eleventh Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - November 7, 2017
Speaker: Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States
“Synodality and Pope Francis:The Church that Walks Together.”

The Tenth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - November 3, 2016
Speaker: The Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, S.L.D., Metropolitan Archbishop of Atlanta
"Liturgical Preaching in the 21st Century"

The Ninth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 29, 2015
Speaker: Rev. Ronald G. Roberson, CSP, Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
"The Catholic-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue: Achievements and Hopes"

The Eighth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 30, 2014
Speaker: Professor Duncan Stroik, Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame.
"Church Architecture since Vatican II"

The Seventh Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - November 7, 2013
Speaker: Rev. Msgr. Alan F. Detscher, S.L.D.  Monsignor has held both Diocesan and National Offices.
"Liturgy and Ecumenism: One of the First Fruits of he Second Vatican Council"

The Sixth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 25, 2012
Speaker: Rev. Thomas Kroskicki, S.V.D. Past Director of the Secretariat of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy.
"Crowned with Praise and Glory: An Approach to Liturgical Christology"

The Fifth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - November 3, 2011
Speaker: Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J., F.B.A., Professor Emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome.
"In Dialogue with Fred McManus: Catholic Liturgy and the Christian East at Vatican II--Nostalgia for Orthodoxy?"

The Fourth Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 28, 2010
Speaker: Rev. John F. Baldovin, S.J., Professor, Boston College, School of Theology and Ministry.
"Is The Liturgy Hitting Its Target"

The Third Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture - October 22, 2009
Speaker: The Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, S.T.D., S.S.L., Bishop of the Diocese of Erie, PA
"The Language of the New Missal in light of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy"

The Second Annual Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Rev. R. Kevin Seasoltz, O.S.B., S.T.L., J.C.D.
"Liturgy and Ecclesiastical Law: Some Canonical and Pastoral Challenges"

The Inaugural Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Godfried Cardinal Danneels, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel
"Liturgy, Forty Years after Vatican II"