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The 2025 St. John Henry Newman Lecture with Abigail Favale
Presented by the Joan & Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage
This year’s lecturer was Dr. Abigail Favale of the McGrath Center at the University of Notre Dame. Her story brings to life the wrenching tumult of conversion--a conversion that began after she entered the Church and began to pry open its mysteries. There she discovered the startling beauty of a sacramental cosmos, a vision of reality that upended her notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and authority. This is a thoroughly 21st century conversion, a compelling account of recovering an ancient faith after a decade of doubt. As Dr. Favale writes, "There are events in life that leave you changed forever, right down to the very roots and heart of your being, because they go 'into the deep.'”