Vincentian Center for Church and Society

Study and programming on the nexus of Religion and Science through the prism of Social Justice.

The Rosalie Rendu * Roundtable on Religion and Science is a dialogue group, which relates religious values and scientific advancements in the cause of social justice.  
Members of the Roundtable are drawn from The Vincentian Fellows Program, faculty experts in service of the United Nations, local faith-based charities and healthcare organizations and others from this richly diverse metropolitan area.
World hunger and global health are the primary themes in the three-year cycle of the Roundtable commencing in January 2005. Bimonthly dialogue group meetings, semiannual invited public forums, and biennial conferences promote an ongoing active engagement among scientists, philosophers, theologians, clergy, and faith-based and other non-governmental development organizations.  
This dialogue group hosted by St. John's University and located in the heart of the most ethnically and religiously diverse community in the U.S. is committed to the incorporation of multiple voices from communities based in the greater New York City region and beyond.
This initiative is funded through a grant from The Local Societies Initiative of the Metanexus Institute.
For more information contact:   (718) 990 1612
Administrative contact :   S. Margaret John Kelly, D.C., Ph.D.
Faculty Coordinators :  

Dr. Joanne Carroll, School of Pharmacy carrollj@stjohns.edu
Dr. Barrett Brenton, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, brentonb@stjohns.edu  
Dr. Craig Baron, College of Professional Studies, baronc@stjohns.edu

ListServe: by invitation.
Blessed Rosalie Rendu, a Daughter of Charity in post-enlightenment France, engaged students and faculty from the Sorbonne in efforts to alleviate poverty and advance social justice.   Her efforts to utilize the talents and energies of the academy in the needs of the poor inspired Frederic Ozanam, a student and eventually faculty at the Sorbonne to found the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.   She inspires us to bridge the University and the community in a dialogue of religion and science in service to the common good.