MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Siena Center will present Thomas McGonigle, OP, director of the Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies at Providence College, in the annual Mazzuchelli Lecture on Thursday, November 5. The lecture, titled “Samuel Mazzuchelli: Model of Dominican Service,” will take place at 5:00 p.m. in the Eloise Martin Recital Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

McGonigle will discuss Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli’s life as a missionary, priest, pastor, teacher, and the founder of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters. In remembering Fr. Samuel, the lecture will consider our own demands for creativity in the service of truth and love. This event is co-sponsored by the university’s Office of Mission Integration.

McGonigle is an associate professor of history at Providence College in Rhode Island. He received master’s and doctoral degrees in church history from Harvard University. He also received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from the Aquinas Institute of Philosophy. In 1996, he co-authored A History of the Christian Tradition: From Its Jewish Origins to the Reformation.   

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Dominican University’s Siena Center at (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 14 ^th 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.