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| MEMORY AND IDENTITYExploring our heritage Testing our tradition |
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| TO KNOW MORE ABOUT... Seminar Series From the Religious Sense to Christianity: The fundamental works of Msgr.Luigi Giussani TRANSCRIPTS OF THE SEMINAR SERIES ARE AVAILABLE CLICK HERE... |
| LIFE AT THE CROSSROADS |
| HUMAN AFFAIRS The Origin and the Future of Human Rights October 17, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) MEMORY AND IDENTITY Is It Possible to Live This Way? October 1, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY - TRANSCRIPT) HUMAN AFFAIRS China's Record on Human Rights: No Olympic Medals September 17, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) MEETINGS AT THE CROSSROADS Gaudi' Calls the Future May 2, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) MEMORY AND IDENTITY "Only Something Infinite Will Suffice" April 11, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD Flannery O'Connor: The Life You Save May Be Your Own February 28, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD Kerouac: "All that road going, all the people dreaming..." January, 16, 2008 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD Shakespeare: We are such stuff as dreams are made of November 13, 2007 (PHOTO GALLERY) MEETINGS AT THE CROSSROADS Market Turbulence A Dialogue with Anne Krueger October 10, 2007 (PHOTO and VIDEO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD From the Ground Up June 23, 2007 (PHOTO GALLERY) MEMORY AND IDENTITY Faith of our Founders May 8, 2007 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD Talking Music: Mozart, Requiem March 30, 2007 (PHOTO GALLERY - PROGRAM) HUMAN AFFAIRS Who am MySpace? Who are YouTube? February 28, 2007 (PHOTO GALLERY - AUDIO) MEMORY AND IDENTITY The Art of the Neapolitan Nativity December 8, 2006 HUMAN AFFAIRS Faith and Reason in Christianity and Islam: A Road-Map to Peace? November 20, 2006 (PHOTO GALLERY - DOCUMENTS - AUDIO) MEETINGS AT THE CROSSROADS DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY Faith and Reason in the Eternal Poem: A Journey to the Infinite October 30, 2006 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD GRANT WOOD'S STUDIO BIRTHPLACE OF AMERICAN GOTHIC June 3, 2006 (PHOTO GALLERY) BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD CAN POETRY MATTER? A dialogue on the role of the poet in today's world Readings of American and Italian poems May 5, 2006 (PHOTO GALLERY) |
| Religious Awareness in Modern Man (DOWNLOAD THE FLYER - PHOTO GALLERY) Seminar series on Christianity and Culture in the Works of Luigi Giussani, founder of Communion and Liberation April 9, 2007: Christianity at the Crossroads of Greek Reason and Jewish Tradition TRANSCRIPT April 16: The Rise of Christianity and the Foundation of Western Culture TRANSCRIPT April 23: “Has Mankind failed the Church..." TRANSCRIPT April 30: “...or Has the Church failed Mankind?” TRANSCRIPT Columbia University Earl Hall New York City |
WHAT IS CROSSROADS? Crossroads New York Cultural Center is a meeting place for people who share a passion for knowing. This passion is aroused by wonder and attraction because "out there" things are, because life is given, always as a new and unexpected event that nourishes our experience. (more...) |
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| CHINA’S RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS: NO OLYMPIC MEDALS After the Games, an overview on freedom of speech, population control, and prison camps in the 'Land of Harmony’ Testimony of Harry Wu Founder and Executive Director Laogai Research Foundation Political prisoner in the Chinese camps for 19 years (more...) Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs |
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| IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE THIS WAY? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence |
| Wednesday, October 1, 2008 The Pope John Paul II Cultural Center |
| H.E. Arch. Pietro SAMBI Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to the U.S. Msgr. Lorenzo ALBACETE Theologian, Author, Columnist Prof. Roger SCRUTON writer and philosopher, Research Professor at Institute for the Psychological Sciences in collaboration with COMMUNION AND LIBERATION (CL) |
| THE ORIGIN AND THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS Reason for our hope - Reflections on Pope Benedict XVI's Speech to the UN |
| Arch. Celestino MIGLIORE Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the UN READ THE SPEECH Paolo CAROZZA Chairman of the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights - OAS Associate Professor of Law at Notre Dame Michael HOROWITZ Director of Hudson Institute's Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty The panel moderated by William E. DeMARS Chairman of the Department of Government Wofford College |
| PAST EVENT |
| Friday, October 17th, 2008 at 5:30pm George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs PHOTO GALLERY |
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| THE ATHEIST AND THE MONSIGNOR Albacete vs. Hitchens Read all about the conversation between Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, theologian, author, columnist, and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Crossroads Cultural Center, and Christopher Hitchens, English author, journalist, critic, and outspoken atheist. They met at New York's Pierre Hotel to tackle the question of whether or not science makes belief in God obsolete. |
| ONE YEAR AT THE CROSSROADS An overview of the Crossroads Cultural Center 2007-2008 season |
| “Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up” (Cyprian Norwid) WorkCenter and Crossroads Cultural Center present A MUSICAL CELEBRATION BENEFIT CONCERT and SILENT AUCTION Thursday, November 20, 2008 5:30-9:00 pm DOWNLOAD THE INVITATION Cathedral of St.Matthew the Apostle 1725 Rhode Island Avenue, NW - Washington, DC |
