2013 Press Releases
UCC hosts conference on Pope John Paul 11
The School of History at UCC is hosting a major international conference on the life of Pope John Paul II on Saturday 9 November.
A range of expert speakers from Ireland and Poland will address various aspects of the late Pope’s career, including:
The moral theology of Pope John Paul II;
John Paul II and European politics;
The Catholic church in Ireland and the pontificate of Pope John
Paul II;
Women in the church of John Paul II;
John Paul II and the People’s Republic of Poland;
The conference is free, and open to all members of the public and will be held in the Boole 1V Lecture Theatre on the main campus. The conference programme can be downloaded from http://www.ucc.ie/en/media/academic/schoolofhistory/documents/Programme.docx
For further details contact Gabriel Doherty, School of History, University College Cork (021 4902783, g.doherty@ucc.ie)