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Cardinal Ouellet Visits at AMU
January 26, 2007
Marc Cardinal Ouellet, Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada, was at Ave Maria University Feb. 4 to give a public talk and to meet with members of the AMU community.
Ouellet, a renowned scholar who participated in the papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, will be presenting "My Itinerary of Faith and Reason" at 2 p.m. in Stella Maris at the AMU interim campus in Naples. All were welcome to attend.
"For the last three years we have invited a cardinal to campus to celebrate Mass with us, share some meals with us and speak to us," said AMU provost Father Joseph Fessio, S.J., who has known Ouellet for more than 20 years. "Cardinal Ouellet is an extraordinary priest and scholar, and he is also an engaging speaker."
In addition to his duties as Archbishop of Quebec, Ouellet serves as a consulter for the Congregation for Divine Worship and is a member of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Conferences. From 1996 to 2002 he was chair of dogmatic theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome, and he has taught theology in both North and South America.
Ouellet is the fourth cardinal to visit AMU at its interim since its opening. Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna, Austria, was the first to do so in 2004 and Francis Cardinal Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, did so a year later in February 2005. George Cardinal Pell, archbishop of Sydney, Australia, visited the university last February.