Event Calendar

Please join us for a conversation with John McCarthy, former Australian Ambassador to the Holy See.

Please join us for a book talk with Michael Novak and Paul Adams.

Now in its 28th year, the Erasmus Lecture brings in world-renowned speakers to New York—including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Gilbert Meilaender, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—to address an audience of over five hundred people each year. In 2014, Archbishop Charles Chaput’s lecture was streamed live to hundreds of households and its video received over 7,000 views. The lecture also appears in the pages of First Things and on firstthings.com.

Now in its 27th year, the Erasmus Lecture brings in world-renowned speakers to New York—including Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Gilbert Meilaender, and Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—to address an audience of over five hundred people each year. The lecture also appears in the pages of First Things and on FirstThings.com.

Christians can learn from Jews. We can learn how to thrive in the secular world that no longer regards faith as central. So argues Rabbi Jonathan Sacks at the 2013 Erasmus Lecture. Speaking to more than five hundred people on the evening of Monday, October 21st at the Union League Club in New York, Sacks outlined a vision in which religious communities—Jewish and Christians—can function as creative minorities.