Part 1 of a Two-Part Webinar featuring Charles Camosy, award-winning author of Resisting Throwaway Culture: How a Consistent Life Ethic Can Unite a Fractured People.

Via Zoom by the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The 2020 presidential election signals the end of what has been a terribly divisive year. Many in the U.S. have withdrawn into opposing camps formed in part by antagonism toward others who hold different convictions. In this talk, Camosy, associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, will make the case that post-election, U.S. culture is ripe for a “politics of encounter”—one that can bring hope by replacing antagonism with a politics that starts with dialogue and a commitment to the fundamental equality of and respect for all human beings.

Julie Hanlon Rubio, author of Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church and Professor of Social Ethics at Santa Clara University, will join Camosy to respond. Camosy and Rubio will launch a dialogue about post-election hope and resources the Catholic tradition can offer for a politics that seeks common ground.