St. Norbert College to Host Heritage Week Concert and Lecture

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From St. Norbert College, September 27, 2016
by Matthew Matuszak, matthew.matuszak@snc.edu, 920-403-3089

St. Norbert College will host a concert celebrating Heritage Week followed by a lecture delivered by the Rev. Clemens Dölken, O.Praem. on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 6:30 p.m. The concert and lecture will take place in Old St. Joe's Church on the college campus. The concert and lecture are free and open to the public.

The concert, performed by the St. Norbert College music department, will incorporate sacred music. Dölken's lecture will follow the concert and he will hold a Q&A session after delivering his lecture. A reception will follow the event.

Dölken is a professor for Catholic social doctrine and Christian social ethics at the Philosophic-Theological University of St. Augustin and is a member of the Priory of the Premonstratensians (Norbertines) at the Abbey Hamborn in Magdeburg, Germany. He is also on the board of directors of the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics and is the managing director of the Catholic NGO "Hilfswerk SUBSIDIARIS."

Heritage Week celebrates the history of St. Norbert College, founded in 1898 by the Rev. Bernard Pennings, O.Praem., the only Norbertine college in the world.

For more information about the event, contact Julie Friedman at 920-403-4034 or julie.friedman@snc.edu.