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Rossi Center for Faith and Culture
College Students Living Out their 
​​Faith in Culture and Shaping the Future
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Established 2017

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MIDWEST CATHOLIC a Jesuit Outreach for Students

Michael Rossmann, S.J.

WHAT SHOULD I DO?”
MAKING DECISIONS WITH
​THE WISDOM OF ST. IGNATIUS
​March 10, 2020

What should I be doing with my life?  What comes next?  Everybody’s got a burning question!  We know it is important to make good decisions, but we often don’t know how. Fortunately, there’s help. St. Ignatius of Loyola was a master decision maker. His “rules for discernment” are practice tools that have helped countless people make good decisions for nearly 500 years and he can help you too!

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Catherine Pakaluk, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought at the Catholic University of America

Catherine Pakaluk, Ph.D

Soulmates and Other Myths About the Family in America
October 9, 2019
Why “soulmate” marriage is undermining marriage? How the interest of parents is not always aligned with the interest of kids.  How the real “fault lines” in American society are not political, but familial.  
"Since the Creator of all things has established the conjugal partnership as the beginning and basis of human society," the family is "the first and vital cell of society." - Pope John Paul II "Familiaris Consortio" 

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Sarah Swafford, a 2004 Theology & Business graduate of Benedictine College, is the founder of Emotional Virtue Ministries

Sarah Swafford

Relationships: It's Complicated
April 9, 2019
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Are you tired of the games, tired of the heartache, and exhausted from the drama? 
Do you feel the pressure to be perfect and the endless chase to keep up and not be left behind, or left alone? 
Can drama-free relationships exist?

Today’s dating scene is more complicated than ever.  Sarah Swafford helped students encounter who Jesus is calling us to be in all our relationships. Sarah targeted this struggle within by setting forth a vision for virtue in the twenty-first century, one that focuses on beginning with the end in mind, building what will last, and staying off the “Emoticoaster.” 

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Dr. Wes Ely completed his undergraduate and medical school at Tulane University, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honors society. Dr. Ely is currently Professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine with subspecialty training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Wesley Ely

Maximizing Dignity at the End of Life: Insights from the ICU
April 11, 2019
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What have you learned from your decades at the bedside? “That death actually has the
secret of life in it. If you confront death with somebody you love who is dying, out of that will come learning that transforms your life. It leaves you stronger, braver, calmer.”

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Dr. Jay Richards, a professor at The Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Jay Richards

The Human Advantage: The Future of Work in the Digital Age
October 23, 2018
  • Will smart machines replace us?
  • What value can I create?
  • How can I prepare for employment in an information economy?
  • What economic myths keep us from reaching our dreams?
  • What 4 virtues will help us reach true happiness and achieve creative freedom?

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Dr. Hugo Esteva

Science, Faith and Higher Education with Dr. Hugo Esteva
June 18, 2018
Dr. Hugo Esteva, an internationally recognized cardiologist from Argentina presented on the challenges between science and faith in higher education.  He reflected on the life of Alexis Carrel
​(Catholic French surgeon working in the U.S. who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine).

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.” David Anders received his Ph.D. studies in reformation history at the University of Iowa, where he found Christ in the Catholic Church

David Anders, Ph.D.

Called to Communion
March 3, 2018
Dr. Anders reflected on the distinctions of Catholicism he discovered and why those are appealing and liberating.  He weighed in on the Catholic intellectual tradition and the Catholic worldview, and their relevance to students.   David Anders is A Catholic catechist, speaker, writer and host of the EWTN radio program Called to Communion.  Small group discussions followed dinner and lecture. 
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