SHU to Host Massimo Faggioli

Fairfield, CT - Sacred Heart University's Curtis Center and the Department of Catholic Studies Jorge Bergoglio Lecture Series present “Pope Francis and the USA: Theology, Politics and Diplomacy” featuring Massimo Faggioli. Faggioli is a church historian and a professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University in Philadelphia. He is also a contributing editor to Commonwealth magazine.

The talk will be held in the University Commons at Sacred Heart University, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield, on Wednesday, February 7, at 7 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public.

About Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 70 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and certificate programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Conn., and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 8,500 students attend the University’s five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; Nursing; the Jack Welch College of Business; and the Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides, Best 382 Colleges–2018 Edition, “Best in the Northeast” and Best 294 Business Schools–2017 Edition. It also placed SHU on its lists for “Best College Theater” and “Most Engaged in Community Service,” each of which comprises only 20 U.S. schools. U.S.News & World Report ranks SHU in its Best Colleges 2018guidebook and ranks SHU the fourth “Most Innovative School” in the North. The Chronicle of Higher Education also names SHU one of the fastest-growing Roman Catholic universities in its 2016 almanac. Sacred Heart fields 32 Division I athletic teams and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu