Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in the
Center for Ethics and Culture

mary ann remickIn the fall of 2006, the Rev. Kevin Flannery, S.J., became the inaugural Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Culture. A professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Fr. Flannery will spend the next several months at Notre Dame collaborating with students and faculty and working on a book that explores Aquinas’s reading of Aristotle’s theory of human action and morality.

One of Notre Dame’s most prominent female benefactors, Mary Ann Remick and her husband, Jack (’59), have supported a variety of initiatives at the University, including financial aid and engineering. But none of the couple’s gifts speak as eloquently to their interest in ethics and Catholic education as does this Endowment for Excellence. The Mary Ann Remick Senior Visiting Fellow is designed to bring together theologians and professors from around the globe to analyze ethical dilemmas across disciplines from a Catholic perspective.

Educated as a nurse, Remick says she feels an urgency to encourage Catholic thinking on controversial practices including stem cell research and euthanasia. “Ethics should be a basic part of everything we do—in business, science, engineering, and the arts,” she says. “I believe the Center for Ethics and Culture has a real influence in the public square, and to be able to facilitate that work is amazing.”

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