Archbishop Dolan to speak at ND on human dignity

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will speak at the University of Notre Dame as part of its Project on Human Dignity.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is scheduled to give a speech Tuesday entitled “Modern Questions, Ancient Answers: Defining and Defending Human Dignity in Our Time.” The school says his lecture is the first in a series of programs aimed at defining and defending the concept of human dignity.

The school’s Institute for Church Life Director John Cavadini says the new program’s objectives include a defense of the right to life from conception to natural death and making the concept of human dignity a recurrent and compelling topic of campus conversation and concern.