Disorienting Affections:
Reenvisioning Priestly Formation
APRIL 18-20, 2027
Mundelein Seminary invites you to join us for
Disorienting Affections: Reenvisioning Priestly Formation. This two-day gathering explores a rich vision for theological education that is fully integrated with both the arts and the medical profession.
Presenters Include
Kate Callaghan
Sara
Groves
Greg
Henson
John
Kartje
Marie
Pitt-Payne
Dominic
Vachon
Dr. Kate Callaghan is Associate Director of Memorial Hospital’s Family Medicine Residency Program, and the Director and Co-founder of Street Medicine South Bend, a health outreach to individuals experiencing homelessness. She is also
an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine.
Sara Groves is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, recording artist, and producer with 15 albums over her 30-year career. She is the Director of Art House North in St. Paul, Minnesota, cultivating Creative Community for the Common Good. She is also an artist advocate with International Justice Mission.
Dr. Greg Henson is President of Kairos University, one of the largest and most diverse communities of competency-based theological education in the world. His work on innovation, theological education, organizational transformation, and governance is used widely
by seminaries, universities, churches, and nonprofits.
Fr. John Kartje, Ph.D., S.T.D.
is Rector/President of Mundelein Seminary and a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago. He is a professor
of Biblical Studies at Mundelein and President of the Seminary Formation Council.
Dr. Marie Pitt-Payne is Academic Dean of Mundelein Seminary & Executive Director of the Cor Iuxta Meum Project and Simulation Center. She has held positions in Catholic education and lay ministry in multiple dioceses.
Dominic O. Vachon, M.Div., Ph.D., is the John G. Sheedy M.D. Director of the Ruth M. Hillebrand Center for Compassionate Care in Medicine in the College of Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he also teaches courses in the science of compassionate care in medicine, medical counseling skills, and spiritualties of caring in the helping professions.
Through presentations, workshops, and breakout sessions
we will engage pedagogies that draw from:
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the personalist philosophy of John Paul II
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recent advances in compassion science
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adaptations in simulation learning for theological formation
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the creative process of the artist’s vocation