2021 Saint Benedict Center Conference: Date, Theme, Speakers, Etc.

I am happy to announce our conference theme for this year, as well as other pertinent details, including a partial list of conference speakers. Please click here to register. For more information or to register by phone, please call Russell at (603) 239-6485 ext 1.

CONFERENCE DATES: Friday and Saturday, October 8 and 9, 2021

Theme: Resisting the Revolutionary Reset: Virtues, Skills, and Catholic Good Sense for Flourishing amid the Madness

Friday, October 8
8:45 Breakfast
9:30 Registration Opens
10:00 Brother André Marie’s Opening Remarks
10:30 Brother André Marie — Ordered Virtue as Resistance to Revolution.
12:00 Angelus / Lunch
1:30 Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. — Re-Rooting a Rootless Society — Some Reflections on the Importance of the Physical for our Spiritual Lives
3:00 David Simpson —Losing Interest in Interest: The Land of Bilk and Money
4:30 Charles Coulombe via video recording — As Darkness Fell: King Arthur and the Last Stand of Roman Britain
6:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 9
8:30 New third Order member entering.
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 John Sharp: “I’ll Still Take My Stand”: The Case for Ideological Intransigence as the Response to the Moral Death of Modern Society
11:15 Mike Church — Anger A Globalist And Host Your Own Local, Local, Local Show!
12:20 The Order’s group picture and reading of the Tertiary Necrology
12:30 Angelus / Lunch
2:00 Dr. David Lang — Reason and Revolution in the Modern Age
4:00 Mr. C. Joseph Doyle — Religious Revival Despite Political Repression: Catholicism in Counter-Reformation Ireland.
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Panel Discussion (all speakers / moderated)

Where: Saint Benedict Center, 95 Fay Martin Road, Richmond, New Hampshire, 03470.

There are a limited number of Saint Benedict Center community members who are willing to host conference attendees on a first-come, first-served basis; please call Russell at (603) 239-6485 for details.

There are several hotels in the Keene vicinity, but reservations should be made early because of tourism during the foliage season. Some include: Best Western Hotel & Suites (603) 357-3038; Holiday Inn Express Keene (603) 352-7616; and Super 8 Keene (603) 352-9780. Also check out Airbnb options.

There are also bed-and-breakfasts in the area; call for details. For those interested, there is a campground three miles from the Center: Shir-Roy Campground (603) 239-4768.

Please click here to register. For more information or to register by phone, please call Russell at (603) 239-6485 ext 1.