2009-10 Schedule of Programs Fordham Center on Religion and Culture Programs and Events: all events are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Please be advised that event details such as location, contact information, and RSVP information are specific for each program. Due to the popularity of our programs, seating is on a first come, first serve basis.  Headline Forum: Becoming Latino The Transformation of U.S. Catholicism   Wednesday, December 9, 2009 |6-8 pm Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street Free and Open to the Public RSVP: CRCevent@fordham.edu, 212.636.7347 In two decades Latino Catholics will constitute at least 40 percent of the Catholic population in the United States -- and possibly a majority.  How will that transform American Catholicism?  What challenges does it present in terms of pastoral practices, institutional changes, new leadership and cultural and socio-economic divisions?  What lessons can the church draw from its immigrant past.  What entirely new lessons will the church have to learn?  A panel of experts will look at these questions -- from demography to spirituality to politics and beyond.   The panel will include Luis Lugo, director, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; Claudio Burgaleta, S.J., coordinator, Latino studies program, Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education, Fordham;  Arturo J. Banuelas, pastor, St. Piux X Church, El Paso, Texas; and one other panelist to be announced. The moderator will be Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., executive director, Office for Cultural Diversity in the Church, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. More 2009-10 programs to come... please check back soon!                          Transcripts Coming Soon!                      Book Forum: Sex & the Soul Romance, Religion & Responsibility   Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |6-8 pm Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street Through extensive interviews, Donna Freitas’s Sex & the Soul explores how college students struggle to reconcile two features of campus life: spiritual longings and sexual freedom.  A theologian and an analyst of early adult life will discuss these issues with the author and young people. Headline Forum: Consuming America What Have We Done to Ourselves? Tuesday, September 15, 2009 |6-8 pm Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus Pope Auditorium, 113 West 60th Street The economic meltdown has focused attention on the role consumers have played in driving the U.S. economy and on the consequences now when consumers no longer have the means or enthusiasm for spending and salvaging the economy. The Forum addresses this phenomenon from a variety of angles.