A symposium hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Religion and Interdisciplinary studies reflecting on the impact and significance of Pope Francis’s papacy for global and American Catholicism from both ecclesiastical and scholarly perspectives. Speakers will include the Most Rev. David M. O’Connell, the tenth Bishop of Trenton, and Susan Abraham, associate professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University. The symposium is sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Office of Global Initiatives.
RSVP to Ms. Lynette Ming at lming@monmouth.edu. If you have any questions please call 732-263-5501 or extension 5501.
Philip Terman is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Torah Garden, Rabbis of the Air, Book of the Unbroken Days, and The House of Sages. Autumn House Press will publish Our Portion: New and Selected Poems in 2015. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Sun Magazine, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poets, 99 Poems for the 99 Percent, and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust. He has received the Anna Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. He teaches creative writing at Clarion University, where he directs the Spoken Arts Reading Series, and is co-director of The Chautauqua Writers Festival at the Chautauqua Institution.