This weekend marks the beginning of a lengthy stretch of travel (well, lengthy for me) around the country giving talks at various parishes, conferences, and such. This Thursday and Friday I will be in Anchorage, Alaska, to give three talks:
• Thursday, April 20th at 7:00 pm: Theology on Tap at the Snow Goose Restaurant
• Friday, April 21st at 10:30 am: Holy Rosary Academy
• Friday, April 21st at 7:00 pm: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish
If you have any questions, please contact Arthur Roraff at 907-646-9000.
On the morning of Sunday, May 30th, I'll be speaking at the First Annual Catholic Scripture Study Conference, held at the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, South Carolina. Other speakers include Dr. Scott Hahn, Mark Shea, John Martignoni, Steve Ray, and many others. A schedule can be accessed here.
Then I fly over to Birmingham, Alabama, and will be a guest on "EWTN Live" with the one and only Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J., on Wednesday, May 3rd.
Some other places I'll be speaking at during the next few months:
• Holy Trinity Catholic parish, Beaverton, OR. 7:00 pm on Saturday, May 6th.
• Legatus events on Thursday, May 18th (New Jersey) and Saturday, May 20th (Spokane, WA area)
• St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, Seattle, WA: Friday, June 2nd, 7:00 – 9:30 pm (more info)
• Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Seattle, WA: Saturday, June 3rd, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm (more info)
• Fullness of Truth conference, Houston, TX: June 9th-10th. (This was originally scheduled to be in Fort Worth. Updated info to come soon.)
• 25th Annual Chesterton Conference, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN: June 15th-17th.
• Corvallis Pillar of Truth. St. Mary's Catholic Church, Corvallis, OR: Wednesday, June 21th, 7:00 pm.
• Defending the Faith Conference, Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH: July 28th-30th.
With a couple of exceptions (Corvallis — "Will Catholics Be 'Left Behind'?", and Steubenville - "Rival Concepts of the Kingdom, Liberal, Fundamentalist and Catholic"), my talks will be about the Coded Craziness, including a daunting (but hopefully fun) talk in St. Paul, MN, titled "Chesterton and The Da Vinci Code."
Wow, how do you stay sane with all this traveling?
Posted by: John Stroud | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 04:26 PM
John, I think that your question is actually an assumption :)
Posted by: fr richard | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 05:16 PM
Speaking of St. Paul, MN, this from the latest National Review:
"Following the "Midwinter Holiday" comes the "Spring Holiday"; and wouldn't you know it, those darn Christians are trying to make something religious out of this one, too. The city council of St. Paul, Minn., is having none of it. A council secretary had decorated the lobby of City Hall with a cloth bunny, eggs, and a sign saying (eek!) "Happy Easter," all paid for from her own pocket. The city's human-rights director, Tyrone Terrill (whose voice-mail message, one keen-eared reporter noticed, contains a segment of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech larded with Scriptural references), ordered the offending display removed, though he admitted that no one had actually complained. Subversive elements among the city's workforce have responded by quietly placing boxes of Peeps - seasonal marshmallow candies shaped like chicks and rabbits - around a City Hall statue. The statue, by Swedish pacifist Carl Milles, depicts Native Americans smoking peace pipes, and is officially known as the "Vision of Peace." The wags of St. Paul are suggesting that the statue be renamed the "Vision of Peeps." And speaking of renaming: How long can it be before the deplorably exclusionary name of this city is purged from our gazetteers?"
Reminds me of this:
"The tolerance that admits God as it were as a private opinion but refuses him in the public domain, the reality of the world and of our lives, is not tolerance but hypocrisy."
-Benedict XVI, L’Osservatore Romano, English, October 5, 2005
Posted by: Jackson | Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 05:43 PM
Fr. Richard is quite right. Why assume that I am sane? The trick, I suppose, is taking one trip at a time (physically, obviously, but especially psychologically) and look forward to July. My wife, btw, is a saint.
Posted by: Carl Olson | Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 12:11 PM
Regarding the Catholic scripture conference, I believe you mean Charlotte, "North Carolina", not "South Carolina".
Posted by: NewTrollObserver | Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 07:52 AM
Yes, North Carolina it is. Or was. Or still is. At least I didn't write "East Carolina." ;-) Thanks!
Posted by: Carl Olson | Monday, May 01, 2006 at 09:43 PM