MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Siena Center will continue its spring series on The Common Good with a lecture by Vincent Rougeau titled “The Common Good, Faith, and Global Citizenship” on Wednesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division Street, River Forest.

Rougeau will explore how people of faith can pursue a common good that is both global and local. What does it mean to be part of a faith tradition that understands issues such as poverty relief, immigration, globalization and racial discrimination differently from mainstream American society and law?

A professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, Rougeau directs its Center for Law and Government and serves as faculty advisor for the Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy. He received his juris doctor degree from Harvard University in 1988 and taught at the School of Law of Loyola University Chicago from 1991 to 1997. A former fellow, faculty mentor and board member of the Summer Institute on Faith and Intellectual Life, Rougeau is also affiliated with the Von Hugel Institute, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge University and the Contextual Theology Centre in London. His most recent book is Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order (2007).

The Siena Center will continue its examination of The Common Good with a lecture by Kristin Heyer, assistant professor of theological studies at Loyola Marymount University, on Thursday, April 3. The series is designed as a dialogue between the practical and the philosophical, relevant to the political decision-making of both leaders and ordinary citizens.

Admission for the lecture is $10. For more information on Dominican’s Siena Center, please call (708) 714-9105 or visit www.siena.dom.edu.

Dominican University established the Siena Center to engage the critical issues of church and society in the light of faith and scholarship. The center was named for St. Catherine of Siena, a 14th century laywoman who worked for the reform of the church and justice in the world. Her passionate devotion to the central issues of church and society inspires the work of the center in its schedule of lectures, symposia, workshops, retreats, research and seminars.