Boston College Front Row

Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dantes Divine Comedy, presents Paradiso 24 with Chris Constas, adjunct associate professor in the Arts and Sciences Honors Program at Boston College. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian.

Novelist and playwright Earl Lovelace reads from his novel, Is Just A Movie. His published works include While Gods Are Falling; The Dragon Cant Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Novelist and playwright Earl Lovelace reads from his novel, Is Just A Movie. His published works include While Gods Are Falling; The Dragon Cant Dance; and Salt, which won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dantes Divine Comedy, presents Paradiso 23 with Rachel Jacoff, professor emerita of Italian at Wellesley College. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian.

Lectura Dantis, an ongoing public reading of Dantes Divine Comedy, presents Paradiso 23 with Rachel Jacoff, professor emerita of Italian at Wellesley College. The presentation of the text is in English, and the reading in Italian.

Rabbi James Rudin, the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion and Judaica at Saint Leo University, talks about how Cardinals Richard Cushing and Francis Spellman influenced the Second Vatican Council to adopt Nostra Aetate—a statement against anti-Semitism—and how Cardinal John OConnor transformed that documents sentiments into practical results a generation later.

Rudin is introduced by Ruth Langer, associate director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College; Martin Kaplan, chair of the American Jewish Committees Interreligious Affairs Commission; and Raymond Flynn, former mayor of Boston and United States Ambassador to the Holy See.

Rabbi James Rudin, the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Religion and Judaica at Saint Leo University, talks about how Cardinals Richard Cushing and Francis Spellman influenced the Second Vatican Council to adopt Nostra Aetate—a statement against anti-Semitism—and how Cardinal John OConnor transformed that documents sentiments into practical results a generation later.

Rudin is introduced by Ruth Langer, associate director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College; Martin Kaplan, chair of the American Jewish Committees Interreligious Affairs Commission; and Raymond Flynn, former mayor of Boston and United States Ambassador to the Holy See.

David McMenamin, director of the PULSE Program for Service Learning at Boston College, answers the question, If you had the chance to give the last lecture of your life, what wisdom would you impart upon your students?

David McMenamin, director of the PULSE Program for Service Learning at Boston College, answers the question, If you had the chance to give the last lecture of your life, what wisdom would you impart upon your students?

Alan Jacobs, the Clyde S. Kilby Chair Professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, talks about the role of literature in sustaining religious belief. Judith Wilt, the Newton College Alumnae Professor Emerita, provides a response.