2010 May

Please find a copy of the review and development plan available for download here.

Catholic Theology Research Seminar

Prof. Tom O’Loughlin

‘The Didache and the Theology of Current Eucharistic Prayers’

Thurs

27 May

Dun Cow Cottage

ALL ARE WELCOME

5:15-7:00

Drinks 5:13-5:30

If you wish to attend please email (noting whether or not you wish to dine afterwards) m.j.p.pound@durham.ac.uk

This coming Monday, 24 May 2010, the Gala will screen the final film in the Silent Light: Faith on Film series. The film will be introduced by Prof Gerard Loughlin.

Andrei Rublev (15)

Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Tarkovsky’s vast, freeform fresco on the life of Russia’s greatest icon painter is one of the few true epics of modern cinema, ranging from the brutal invasion of the Tartars to naked pagan rituals. Religious feeling is the emotional core, rather than the subject, of this film, one of the most gruellingly beautiful ever made.

Monday 24 May | 7.20pm | dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966, 182 mins

This months Diocesan newpaper:  Northern Cross (MAY 2010) features a centre page spread on the work of the University Chaplaincy in St Cuthbert’s, Durham including its relation to the Centre for Catholic Studies.  For further details see: http://www.nor-cross.co.uk/  

Members of St Cuthbert’s Chaplaincy on retreat at Lindisfarne.

A copy of the Centre Newsletter is now available for download: newsletter6

On Monday, Gala Cinema, in conjunction with the Centre for Catholic Studies, kicked off the film series Silent Light with a screening of Wim Wenders’ classic 1987 film ‘Wings of Desire.’  The film was introduced by Professor Gerard Loughlin (left), author of Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. The series will continue Sunday with the Coen brothers’ most recent film:

A Serious Man (15)
“Why does Hashem make us feel the questions if He’s not gonna give us any answers?” Questions of existence and religion only touched on or hinted at in previous Coen Brothers movies are given a full – and darkly humorous – treatment in this terrific, Oscar- nominated film. It’s 1967 and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife that she is leaving him for one of his colleagues. Larry’s unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the couch, while his children eschew any sense of responsibility. With these trials of life, Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis but can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person – a mensch – a serious man?

Sunday 9 May | 3.00pm | dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, 2009, 105 mins