The 10th Annual Fr. Robert Bullock Memorial Lecture will take place on Saturday, April 11 at 6 p.m. in O’Connell Hall.

This year’s guest speaker is Padraic O’Hare, D.Ed, Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College. The title of his lecture is Religious Leadership and Interfaith Relations: The Robert Bullock Legacy.

All are welcome. Learn more about the annual lecture.

About the Lecture

In 2005, the Parish Pastoral Council of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish established the Rev. Robert W. Bullock Lecture in memory of its beloved former pastor. This annual lecture is delivered in the spring of each year by a distinguished scholar or religious leader. This event honors the memory of Father Bullock and provides an ongoing forum in which the people of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish and of the Sharon community can be in dialogue with speakers who share Father Bullock’s ideals and aspirations.

The goals of the Lecture are to discuss an important topic relevant to the Catholic Church in our times, in the spirit of Vatican II and consistent with Father Bullock’s life-long commitment to the Church, religious education and interfaith communication, to foster a spirit of ecumenism, inclusion and solidarity among the people of Our Lady of Sorrows Parish and the Sharon community, and to facilitate a dialogue with people of Catholic and other faith traditions.

About Dr. Padraic O’Hare

Dr. O’Hare received his doctorate at the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. He is a Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at Merrimack College. The author or editor of eight (8) books, he is currently completing the third segment in an award winning trilogy on contemplation education, Lions in the Desert: Contemplation and the Young Adult. O’Hare founded (1993) and directed (1995-2011) the College’s Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, expanding the Center’s scope in 2008 to embrace Islam.

On stepping aside from the leadership of the Center, he has recently received the interfaith award “Holy Envy: The Krister and Brita Stendahl Award for Interfaith Reverence.” O’Hare teaches the study and practice of contemplation, as well as the biographies of Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as moral resources, and the history and theology of Jewish-Christian relations. He is a member of the College Theology Society, International Thomas Merton Society, The National Board of Scholars of Facing History and Ourselves, The Board of The Holocaust Center Boston North, The Advisory Panel of Intertwined Worlds, and he is a founding member of Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice.

Recent publications include: “Abraham Heschel and the Catholic Heart” in Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations and “House of Prayer near Ground Zero? Yes” as a Guest Voice for the Washington Post. He was also interviewed by Intertwined Worlds.