Holy Smokes! If ya’ll are going to be near Northern Colorado in late January, save the friggin’ date, because this is going to be an interesting dialogue of wits. Janet Smith, the the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and consultor to the Pontifical Council on the Family, will be debating fellow Catholic professor, Dr. Christine Gudorf, a liberation theologian and second wave feminist of quasi-secular persuasion.
It will be *fascinating* to see how the questions are posed, and how the dialogue proceeds. Both of their expertise are theological, but their respective theological “languages” or understandings are worlds apart. If the debate involves questions of sociological and scientific proof–done. Smith’s got science and social science on her side.
Thursday January 26th at 7:00 pm
Cristol Chemistry 140, UC-Boulder Campus
The Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought (AICT) is excited to announce that it will be hosting its 5th annual Great Debate on Thursday, January 26th at 7:00 PM on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus in Cristol Chemistry 140. Dr. Janet Smith from Sacred Heart Major Seminary and Dr. Christine Gudorf from Florida International University will go head-to-head over the question, “Is Contraception Harmful to Women?” All college students are free (with ID) while all others are $5 a ticket. Tickets are necessary for entrance so please obtain your ticket as soon as they are available..
You may purchase or obtain your ticket in a number of ways:
- If purchasing, you can do so online at by clicking here.
- Both free and $5 tickets will be available after all weekend Masses at St. Thomas on January 14th-15th and 21st-22nd while supplies last.
- College students may obtain a ticket at our table at the UMC between the hours of 11am and 3pm from the 16th-19th and 24th-26th while supplies last.
- College students may also obtain a ticket at any time at our Catholic Student Center by visiting the receptionist during business hours (1520 Euclid Ave).
- If there are tickets still available before the event, you may obtain one outside the auditorium an hour before the debate begins.
Please call 720.564.1111 for more information.
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Smith (who is not a theologian) will follow the same template she always does. It’s good, but you only need to hear it once.
Her opponent won’t be able to trip her up because her tactic is to say “height”, a contraction of all-right and then get right back to her talking points.
This happened throughout her debate with dissident Charlie Curran. Curran wanted to steer the debate back to contraception w/in marriage…Smith kept pausing, saying “height” and then getting back to her speech on extramarital sex.
It’s good fun but if you’ve been fighting the culture of death for any time, don’t expect to be enlightened.
She’ll be in Kansas City around then too. Can’t wait to hear her! Thanks for sharing this Jess!
any chance it will be recorded for those of us 1000s of miles away?