Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society - Krakow
27 June - 14 July,
Krakow
program
The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society was founded in 1992 by Michael Novak, Rocco Buttiglione, Father Richard John Neuhaus, Father Maciej Zieba, OP, and George Weigel to deepen the dialogue on Catholic social doctrine between North American students and students from the new democracies of central and eastern Europe.The seminar is built around an intense study of John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, supplemented by readings from the classics of American political theory and contemporary articles. Following the lead of Centesimus Annus, the seminar explores the "free society" as composed of three interlocking systems: a democratic polity, a free economy, and a vibrant public moral-culture. With Pope John Paul II, we lay the greatest stress on the third system, the moral-cultural system, taking up such issues as religious freedom, ecumenism, Christian-Jewish dialogue, and the "culture of life."
Small groups.
Each year's seminar class includes 10-12 North American students and 20-25 students from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Ukraine, and other new democracies.
Program.
Classes consisting of lectures and discussions are given in English. They concentrate on issues revolving around democratic capitalism. Lectures reflect on its contemporary history in view of the social teaching of the Church, particularly in reference to John Paul II (CA).
Partake in prayer.
The program also offers an opportunity to partake in prayer and daily mass. In the leisure time attractive excursions are organized.
In addition
to more than two weeks of intense intellectual work, some "intellectual tourism" is built into the program; visits to Czestochowa, Auschwitz, Kraków's Old Town, Wawel Cathedral and Castle, and the shrine of Saint Faustina Kowalska.
