Notre Dame professor will lecture tonight...

Notre Dame professor will lecture tonight

“Why be Catholic?” is a free lecture that will be presented by

Lawrence S. Cunningham, a John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at

the University of Notre Dame. The lecture will be sponsored by the

Notre Dame Club of Orange County and will be held at 7:30 p.m. today

at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Newport Beach.

Cunningham is a graduate of St. Bernard’s College Seminary and

earned his master’s and doctorate degrees at Florida State

University. He has since lectured in Canada, Europe and Africa.

The recipient of three Catholic Press Assn. awards and several

teaching excellence awards, Cunningham has written or edited 17

books, more than 50 scholarly articles and 200 essays for pastoral

and popular publications. His most recent book is “Thomas Merton and

the Monastic Vision.”

The lecture is a presentation of the Notre Dame Alumni Assn.’s

Hesburgh Alumni Lecture Series and is delivered by Notre Dame faculty

members nominated by colleagues and the deans of the university’s

colleges and law school.

The event is open to the public and will be followed by a

reception.