Dr. Byron Calhoun

Tuesday, April 24 – 7pm -
St. Anthony’s Hospital, Auditorium A & B*

* Please note the change from our normal location! St. Anthony’s Hospital is located at 4231 West 16th Avenue in Denver

Archbishop’s Symposium: End of Life Issues
“Fearfully, Wonderfully Made”
Providing hospice care for fatally diagnosed, unborn children and family

By Dr. Byron Calhoun, MD, FACOG, FACS, MBA

Registration Fee: $10

Modern medical technology has allowed doctor’s to diagnose an infant with a fatal illness as early as several months into a pregnancy. Calhoun’s lecture will consider the Catholic Church’s perspective regarding the ethics of such diagnosis as well as the needs of those families facing such tragic news.

For the past 11 years, Doctor Byron Calhoun, has worked to provide hospice care in over 40 hospitals for those families facing the terminal diagnosis of their unborn child. “Perinatal hospice” provides these parents with a pro-life alternative in the face of increasing pressures to abort.

A practicing obstetrician and gynecologist, Dr. Calhoun specializes in maternal-fetal medicine, participates in prenatal diagnosis counseling and also serves as professor and vice-chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at West Virginia University in Charleston. He has also offered his extensive medical expertise as testimony for various national, pro-life cases in both the judicial courts and the legislative arena.

Please RSVP with the Respect Life Office at (303) 715-3205 or email resplife@archden.org.

Mr. Ned Desmond

Thursday, March 1, 2007 - 7pm Bonfils Hall

“"Ten years on the Internet: reflections by a Catholic father and media executive"

Mr. Ned Desmond, executive editor of Time Inc. Interactive

Ned Desmond, president of Time Inc. Interactive, will offer attendees invaluable insights into the impact of evolving media technologies on the Catholic believer. His active participation in the Catholic faith, combined with his extensive experience in the development of modern media technologies, makes him a dynamic and invaluable speaker on tonight's topic.

Before his current focus on digital and electronic operations within the Time Warner empire, Desmond worked for nearly 12 years as writer, correspondent and, eventually, chief executive editor for Time magazine in both Tokyo and New Delhi. He also reported from inside Afghanistan with Muslim guerrillas during the insurgency against Soviet occupation in the 1980s.

In 1996, Desmond made the switch to digital operations by first joining an early Internet start-up called Infoseek, based in Silicon Valley. He subsequently worked for a variety of firms, including Fortune magazine, Disney’s Go.com and Time’s Business 2.0 magazine in San Francisco. His wife, Joan Frawley Desmond, and three teenagers now live in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007 – 7pm Bonfils Hall

“Christ and Culture: The strangeness of the Catholic American situation”

Mr. Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things journal

The Archbishop’s annual Lecture Series kicks off its spring season with a compelling presentation by Joseph Bottum, editor of First Things, the nation’s leading journal of religious dialogue in the public and political sphere. Bottum’s lecture will consider how Catholic ideas regarding just war and religious participation in the public square have impacted recent American social and political life.

Listen to his remarks (MP3)