Dear Reader,

First Things, in partnership with New College of Florida, invites you to join us Sunday, February 1st at 5 p.m. at the Mildred Sainer Art & Music Pavilion for the second annual Neuhaus Lecture. Bishop Robert Barron will present on the subject of “Recovering the University’s Soul: Christian Humanism Against the New Nihilism.”

The Most Reverend Robert Emmet Patrick Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, MN. He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Master of Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He received his Sacred Theology Licentiate from Mundelein Seminary, and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, IL in 1986. In 1992, he attained his Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Institut Catholique de Paris. From 1992 to 2015, he taught theology at University of St. Mary of the Lake. From 2012 to 2015, he was rector of Mundelein Seminary, before Pope Francis appointed him as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, CA. In 2022, the pope appointed him to his current post.

Schedule for the evening

5:00 p.m. – Welcome and introduction by New College President Richard Corcoran and First Things Editor R. R. Reno

5:05 p.m. – Presentation of “Recovering the University’s Soul: Christian Humanism Against the New Nihilism”

6:00 p.m. – Lecture concludes