Have the gates of Hell ever triumphed over the Catholic Church during her 2,000 year history? Many claim the long, ignominious history of crusades and inquisitions, heretic burning and scandalous clergy suffice to disprove the claims of the Catholic Church to be the one true Church. But even if you refute such claims by distinguishing between the holiness of the Church and the sinfulness of her members, how do you reconcile the papacy, purgatory, transubstantiation, the veneration of Mary and the saints, and a whole host of other Catholic doctrines and practices with Sacred Scripture?

To address these and other questions concerning the Catholic approach to history, the Collegium Institute's Young Catholic Leaders Initiative invites high school students to join us for To Be Deep in History Is to Be Catholic, an afternoon seminar at the Penn Newman Center on March 26th, 2022. Drawing from John Henry Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, this seminar will provide a framework to understand Church history and apply this framework to contested historical episodes and contemporary questions. Prof. Dan Cheely of the University of Pennsylvania will be leading the workshop.

Lunch will be included in the cost of registration. Sign in and pizza will start at 1:30pm, with the program starting promptly at 2pm.

Location: Penn Newman Center

Dates: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Time: 1:30pm-5:30pm

Registration: The registration fee is $20. This seminar is open only to current high school students. The registration deadline is Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Please click the button below to register via Eventbrite.