Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society featuring Cardinal Reinhard...

This event is sold out. Limited tickets may be available at the door; you may come to the venue and queue in the Non-Ticketholders line. Ushers will seat Non-Ticketholders if space is available.

Established in 1994, the Roger W. Heyns Lecture in Religion and Society, is an annual event that features a major speaker focusing on problems and challenges facing religion and community. Heyns, who was a resident of Atherton, was a member of the Memorial Church congregation from 1977 until his death in 1995. Heyns served as chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1965 to 1971. The lectureship honors Heyns on his retirement after 16 years as a board member of the James Irvine Foundation.

This year's Heyns Lecture features Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who will speak on “The Contribution of Christian Values to the Common Good.” Cardinal Marx is the Archbishop of Munich and Freising and member of the Papal Council on Justice and Peace. He currently serves as the head of the German Bishops' Conference and as President of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences in the European Union. Cardinal Marx has written and spoken widely on economic questions and the contemporary relevance of Catholic Social Teaching; he is the author of Das Kapital: A Plea for Man (2008).

Born in West Germany in 1953, Cardinal Marx became a priest in 1979 and a bishop in 1996. He was named Bishop of Trier in 2001, and in 2007, Pope Benedict XVI elevated him to the post of Archbishop of Munich and Friesing, a position Benedict himself once held. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI named him to the Congregation for Catholic Education for a five year renewable term. In April 2013, he was made a member of the group of cardinals established to advise Pope Francis in the government of the universal Church and to study a plan for revising the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia,‘Pastor Bonus’. In March 2014, he was named by Pope Francis as the Cardinal-Coordinator of the Council for Economic Affairs, which oversees the Secretariat for the Economy, a new financial regulatory department of the Roman Curia.

Parking and Directions:

Parking for Cemex Auditorium is available at Parking Structure 7. The entrance is on Campus Drive. No permit is required - the event will take place after enforcement hours.

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