Summer Symposium

Gardone 2010: Daily Program

The Politics of Faith and Reason? Or the Triumph of the Will?

July 1 -Thursday

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner at the Locanda agli Angeli

July 2 – Friday

10:00 A.M.
John Rao: Lamennais, Americanism, and the Revolutionary Confessional State

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

6:00 P.M.
John Rao: St. Pius X, Le Sillon, l’Action Française, and Catholic Action

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

July 3 – Saturday

10:00 A.M.
John Médaille: Benedict on Business: Economic Order & the Principle of Gratuitousness

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Christopher Ferrara: From Montesquieu, to Holmes, to Scalia: The Triumph of Legal Positivism over Goodness, Truth and Beauty

6:00 P.M
Brian McCall: The Drive to Codify: Law’s Departure from Faith and Reason in Post-Enlightenment Church and State

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

July 4 – Sunday

9:00 A.M.
Solemn High Mass

10:30 A.M.
Brunch as the Locanda agli Angeli

1:00 P.M.—5 P.M.
Boat Trip on Lake Garda

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner

July 5 – Monday

10:00 A.M.
Robert Moynihan: The Vatican under Benedict XVI: Working for Catholic Truth and Order Against Enormous Odds

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Dale Ahlquist: The Glorious Side to Social Decline: G.K. Chesterton on The New Dark Ages

6:00 P.M.
James Bogle: “And thou shalt renew the face of the earth”:  Sacrum Romanum Imperium and the Ideal of Christendom from Constantine to Blessed Emperor Charles

8:00 P.M.
Dinner and Ballo Liscio in Piazza

July 6 – Thursday

10:00 A.M.
John Rao: Marxism, Fascism, and the Catholic Personalist Temptation (1918-1950)

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Msgr. Ignacio Barreiro-Carámbula: The Problem of Christian Democracy

7:00 P.M.
Dinner in the Piazza
Alpini Chorus from La Rocca

July 7 – Wednesday

10:00 A.M.
John Rao: The Post-War Church: Trapped in a Marxist and Americanist-Pluralist Maze

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Michael Matt: The Serious Catholic Press: Serving the Truth & Surviving in a Pluralist, Blogging, Information-Crazed Universe

6:00 P.M.
All Speakers: Questions and Panel Discussion: Current Obstacles to the Catholic Vision of Social Justice & International Order

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

July 8 – Thursday

Departure for All Day Excursions After Breakfast

9:00 P.M.
Dinner

July 9 – Friday

10:00 A.M.
Fr. Richard Munkelt: From Nominalism to the Corruption of the Polis: A Philosophical Examination of the Intimate Connection Between Ideas and Daily Life

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.
Jeffrey Bond: Swift on Modernity: A Confederacy of Dunces

6:00 P.M.
Fr. Gregory Pendergraft: Religious Life and Pastoral Work: Problems of Forming a Catholic Clergy and Laity in a World Opposed to Faith and Reason

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party, Followed by Dinner

July 10 – Saturday

10:00 A.M.
Miguel Ayuso: Carlism: One Catholic Answer to the Anglo-American Political Vision

11:30 A.M.
Missa Cantata

5:00 P.M.

All Speakers: Questions and Panel Discussion: The Pluralist Threat to Theology, Philosophy, Social Life, and the Arts

6:00 P.M.
John Rao: Bringing the Light of Faith & Reason into the Dark & Willful Pluralist Cave

8:00 P.M.
Dinner

July 11 – Sunday

9:00 A.M.
Solemn High Mass

10:30 A.M.
Brunch at the Locanda agli Angeli

1:00 P.M.—5 P.M.
Excursion to Monte Baldo

7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party
Dinner at the Locanda agli Angeli
Song and General Merriment

July 12 – Monday

Departure

NOTE:
Specific Lecture Slots Subject to Change
Other Lecturers May Still Be Added to the Program

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