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NEWS@CUA■ CUA Extends Its Overseas ReachBroadening Catholic University’s reach around the world, CUA’spresident, Very Rev. David M. O’Connell, C.M., Provost JamesBrennan and Dean of Engineering Charles Nguyen attendedChung Yuan Christian University’s commencement in Jhongli,Taiwan, on June 13. There Father O’Connell delivered the graduationaddress and received an honorary doctorate.The next day, Father O’Connell concelebrated Mass withArchbishop of Taiwan John Hung Shan-chuan, who is a CUAalumnus, and enjoyed dinner with about 20 alums who live in Asia.Father O’Connell signed memoranda of understanding withChung Yuan Christian University and with St. John’s University inTaipei, Taiwan, paving the way for future academic collaborationwith these two institutions.On June 16, Provost Brennan and Dean Nguyen traveled on toHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a dinner hosted by CardinalJean-Baptiste Pham Minh Mân and attended by clergymen whoare university alums, including Bishop Pierre Nguyen Van Kham. Inaddition, the two CUA leaders met with administrators of otheruniversities and research centers in Ho Chi Minh City, Danangand Hanoi, and signed a memorandum of understanding betweenCUA and the University of Danang.A little more than a week later, Murry Sidlin, dean of the BenjaminT. Rome School of Music, traveled to the Czech Republic to leadCatholic University’s June 30 student performance of “DefiantRequiem: Verdi at Terezín.” This marked the second time CUA hasperformed Sidlin’s award-winning concert/drama in the formerNazi concentration camp where the work is set. Approximately90 students, faculty and alumni participated.The performance was a featured event of the internationalConference on Holocaust-Era Assets, which took place in Prague.The conference addressed ongoing issues related to injusticescaused by the Holocaust.Father O’Connell and Wan-Lee Cheng, president ofChung Yuan Christian University, sign a memorandumof understanding between their two universities.Photo: Professor Jyh-tong Teng/Chung Yuan Christian UniversityDean Nguyen and Provost Brennan confer withCardinal Pham Minh Mân in his offices in Ho ChiMinh City.Dean Murry Sidlin leads CUA singers and musicians inVerdi’s Requiem at a former Nazi concentration camp.Photo: Milk & Honey Productions■ Freshmen Win Competition forBasilica Dome DesignIllustration courtesy of Basilica of the NationalShrine of the Immaculate ConceptionTwo CUA architecture and planning freshmen were named the winners of a competitionto conceptualize a design for a mosaic on the inside of the largest dome ofthe Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. On March 23,Monsignor Walter R. Rossi, rector of the Basilica, awarded the first prize of $1,000to Philip Goolkasian of Fresno, Calif., and Corey August of Kensington, Md.The freshmen’s design (shown at left) bested entries by three other teams offinalists, all composed of graduate students in the School of Architecture and Planning.The competition challenged CUA students to explore complex design issuesrelated to viewers’ perception of a dome mosaic.Monsignor Rossi noted that CUA’s students who participated in the contestprovided the Basilica administration many “wonderful ideas” for decorating the dome.6 C U A M A G A Z I N E
NEWS@CUA■ CUA Sponsors 2 High-ProfileEvents on Church and StateScholars, theologians, church officials and government leaderscame together on May 28 for two Catholic University-sponsoredforums on faith and government.The 25th anniversary of full diplomatic relations between theUnited States and the Vatican was marked on campus with thedaylong symposium Faith and Freedom: Church and State in theAmerican Experience. A dozen distinguished speakers addressed agathering of more than 200 that included six university presidents,three ambassadors and two Catholic cardinals. Co-sponsored byCUA, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States and the UnitedStates Conference of Catholic Bishops, the symposium examinedthe development of U.S.-Vatican relations and the philosophicalconsequences of an official relationship between church and state.Later that day, two Catholic legal scholars publicly discussedtheir differing views of the Obama administration’s record onabortion and stem cell research, and whether the pro-life movementcan find common ground with the administration on theseissues.Held at the National Press Club and sponsored by the CUAColumbus School of Law’s Center for Law, Philosophy andCulture, this discussion between constitutional law professorsRobert George of Princeton University and Douglas Kmiec ofPepperdine University drew an audience of more than 250 andwas broadcast live by C-SPAN.Both events attracted widespread Catholic and secular presscoverage.Father David O’Connell, university president, welcomes three former U.S. ambassadorsto the Vatican and a former undersecretary of state to the symposium Faith andFreedom: Church and State in the American Experience.Discussing the Obama administration and pro-life issues are (from left) RobertGeorge, moderator Mary Ann Glendon and Douglas Kmiec.CardinalsDinner Raises$1.4 MillionEight U.S. cardinals and other distinguishedChurch leaders joined morethan 700 guests in Houston on April24 to raise money for CUA scholarships.Cardinal Daniel DiNardo (toprow, middle) was the host.S U M M E R 2 0 0 9 7
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