YEAR FOR PRIESTS LECTURE SERIES:

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In continued celebration of the Year for Priests, the Archdiocese of Denver welcome's Father Ian Ker, an Oxford Scholar and a prominent biographer of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

Father Ian Ker, a Catholic priest, Oxford scholar and prominent biographer of Cardinal John Henry Newman, will offer a "Newman-esque" interpretation of the Second Vatican Council.

Rev. Ker will discuss, from the perspective of Newman’s theological outlook, competing interpretations of the Council, comparing those who see it as a rupture with the Church’s past, against those who see it in continuity with the Church’s 2000+year history.

Ian Ker is Senior Research Fellow in Theology at St. Benet's Hall, Oxford and has taught both English literature and theology at universities in Britain and the United States. He is the author and editor of over twenty books on Newman, including the Oxford critical edition of The Idea of a University. His two most recent books were The Catholic Revival in English literature 1845-1961 (2003) and Mere Catholicism (2006). His biography of Newman, originally published in 1988, was reissued by Oxford University Press in 2009. He has recently completed the first full-length intellectual and literary biography of G. K. Chesterton.

This lecture is free, and open to the general public. For more information, please email info@archden.org or call (303) 715-3123.

In celebration of the Denver Catholic Register’s 110th birthday, the Register will hold an Open House. We invite our readers and advertisers to join us that day to meet the staffers and enjoy light refreshments.

Read the March 3 coverage of this event by editor Roxanne King by clicking here.

For more information, call (303) 715-3215 or email editor@archden.org. Learn more about the Denver Catholic Register at www.archden.org/dcr.