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Fr. Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P., was ordained to the priesthood in 2000, Fr. Gillen joined the Order of Preachers in 2005 after earning degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, commonly known as the Angelicum, in Rome. Prior to answering the call to priesthood he worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. Fr. Gillen is currently assigned to Saint Joseph in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he serves to promote evangelization through media for the Province and hosts the weekly program “Word to Life” on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 and XM 117.
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On February 19-20, the Thomistic Institute at the Dominican House of Studies hosted a conference entitled "Secularism and the Natural Desire to Know God." Beginning the conference was its keynote speaker, Francis Cardinal George, who delivered an address that examined the problem of secularism in light of recent theological debates regarding the relation of grace and nature. Professor Russell Hittinger, the chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, offered a response to the Cardinal's address. The following day, presentations were given by Fr. John Corbett, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, DHS, Washington, D.C.), Dr. Paul Griffiths (Warren Chair of Catholic Studies, Duke Divinity School), Dr. Bruce D. Marshall (Perkins School of Theology at SMU, Dallas), and Dr. Reinhard Hütter (Duke Divinty School).
Click above for video of the lecture delivered by Cardinal George.