The John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue

Professor David Ford

Professor David Ford, speaker of the The Fourth Annual Pope John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding, is a world'd renowned Angelican Theologian, the Regius Professor of the Divinity at the University of Cambridge, England, and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme.

Notes to his lecture "Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-faith Practice for the Twenty-first Century" can be found below.

Professor Mona Siddiqui

The Third and most recent Annual Pope John Paul II Lecture on Interreligious Understanding took place on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Prof. Mona Siddiqui, Prominent Islamic Scholar and Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, presented a lecture entitled, “Islamic Perspectives on Judaism and Christianity”.

Rabbi Michael Schudrich

Chief Rabbi of Poland, was speaker for the Second Annual Lecture on March 4, 2009. His lecture was entitled: “A Rabbi’s Reflection on the Teachings of John Paul II”. Please click here for his remarks.

Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl

The First Annual Lecture was held on April 4, 2008 and Reverend Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D. Archbishop of Washington, DC was the keynote speaker. His speech was entitled: “Unifying Religious Threads that Provide a Common Ground for Peace”.