Thursday 10 October at 6.30pm – The Craigmyle Lecture
“Catholic Social Thought and the Economics of the Common Good”.
This year’s Craigmyle Lecture will be given by Lord Maurice Glasman, the Labour peer, political theorist and best known as a founder of “Blue Labour”. All welcome.
Followed by a Drinks Reception.
Venue: Notre Dame University, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG.
The Catholic Union Charitable Trust and Farm Street Church will host a talk by Fr James Hanvey SJ on:
“Pope Francis and his Vision of the Church”
on Friday 25 October 2019 at 7pm in the Church Hall, Farm St Church (Church of the Immaculate Conception), 114 Mount Street, London W1K 3AH. Mass in the Church is at 6pm.
Free entry. All welcome. Followed by a Drinks Reception.
The CUCT organised a talk by Patrick Grady MP on “Catholicism and Public Life in Scotland” in Parliament on 12 June. The meeting was well attended and was preceded by Mass in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft. A full report is available courtesy of Independent Catholic News (ICN) at:
A full report of this talk is available courtesy of Independent Catholic News at:
https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/37298
The Catholic Union Charitable Trust has organised a talk by Patrick Grady MP on Wednesday 12 June 2019 at 6.45pm in Committee Room 6 in the House of Commons.
The title of the talk is “Catholicism and Public Life in Scotland”.
Patrick Grady is the Chief Whip of the Scottish National Party and was elected MP for Glasgow North in 2015. Between 2011 and 2015 he worked as Advocacy Manager at the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund.
Members of the Catholic Union are also invited to attend Holy Mass in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft at 6pm by kind invitation of the Catholic chaplain, Canon Pat Browne. The chapel is located in the south west corner of Westminster Hall.
The Committee Room holds only 65 people. Please register to attend with the CUCT office on 020 8749 1321 or at info@cuct.org.
Wednesday 5 December 2018 – 7.30pm – Lecture by George Weigel on “Democracy and its Discontents: Catholicism and Public Life in Turbulent Times“. George Weigel is a well known American Catholic author, commentator and biographer of Pope John Paul II. Organised by the Thomistic Institute and cosponsored by the Catholic Union Charitable Trust.
The CUCT Craigmyle Lecture was delivered on 18 October by Crossbencher Baroness Nuala O’Loan. It was an impressive and uplifting address, some highlights of which are included in this press release.
A lecture entitled “Cakes, Conscience and Freedom” was delivered by Prof Roger Trigg on 1 March 2018. Please see the lecture outline and press release by clicking on the links below.
The full text of the Craigmyle Lecture given by the Rt Hon Baroness Scotland QC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth on 5 October 2017 is at the link below:
Secretary-General Patricia Scotland Craigmyle Lecture
The text of the Press Release issued by the Commonwealth Secretariat is at the link below:
http://thecommonwealth.org/media/news/secretary-general-opens-discussion-faith-commonwealth
Congratulations to the schools whose pupils were runners up and were awarded book prizes.