Over the years the Newman Association of Vancouver has presented speakers who attempt to develop our understanding both of Christianity and of its interface with the culture that surrounds or has surrounded it. It has been the view of those in the Newman Association that it is in this conversation between Christianity and culture that the value of Christianity to culture becomes evident as does the value of culture to Christianity.
 

Friday-Sunday, Feb. 29-March 2.
Retreat led by Bishop Remi DeRoo, Emeritus Bishop of Victoria. Theme: “Salvation Theology and Vatican II.” Registration forms will be distributed early in 2008. Westminster Abbey, Mission, B.C.

Sunday, April 6 at 11 a.m.
Paul Burns, “Competing Paradigms of Christianity in 4th Century Lives.” Prof. Burns, who taught for many years in the Religious Studies Dept. at UBC, will address the issue of ascetic and non-ascetic models of Christianity found in biographical and autobiographical texts from the 4th
Century.

Saturday, May 24 from 11 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. Newman Association. Annual General Meeting. Speaker: Archbishop Michael Miller: “Faith and Reason.” The recently appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Vancouver, the author of several books and articles and the former president of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, will address the issue of the reconciling of religious faith and reason in modern culture and against the background of the Church’s philosophy in this area.
Location: TBA.