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His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi to Receive Honorary Degree from Loyola University Chicago

Wednesday, 25 March 2015
3:00PM - 4:15PM
Madonna della Strada Chapel
Lake Shore Campus, LUC

This event was free and open to the public.

On March 25th, Loyola University Chicago confered an honorary doctoral degree upon His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. Cardinal Ravasi is the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology. An expert in biblical languages, he served as Prefect of the Biblioteca-Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan and taught Old Testament Exegesis at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy.

Cardinal Ravasi is widely recognized as one of the leading intellectuals of the Roman Curia and has published over 150 volumes, mainly on biblical topics. As part of his conferral celebration, Ravasi offered a lecture entitled "American Culture, Catholic Higher Education, and their Contributions to the Global Church."

The degree conferral, and lecture by Cardinal Ravasi, coincided with the installation of Dr. Miguel H. Díaz as Loyola University Chicago's John Courtney Murray Chair in Public Service.

If you would like to read Cardinal Ravasi's lecture, please click on the following link:
American Culture and Catholic Higher Education (Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi)