All are welcome to join us for the Society’s annual Archbishop Edmond J. Fitzmaurice Fall Lecture on Monday, November 24, 2025, at 1201 N. Market Street (1st floor conference room). There will be a reception with light refreshments at 6:00 p.m., followed by the lecture at 6:30 p.m.

Our speaker will be Michael Hanby, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. He will deliver a talk entitled “The Artificial God: AI and the Danger of a Posthuman Future” which will explore divine, human, and artificial intelligences and implications for the future.

Professor Hanby is the author of No God, No Science?: Theology, Cosmology, Biology, which reassesses the relationship between the doctrine of creation, Darwinian evolutionary biology, and science more generally.

He is also author of Augustine and Modernity , which has been described as “a re-reading of Augustine’s trinitarian theology and a protest against the contemporary argument for continuity between Augustine and Descartes.”

Professor Hanby has contributed chapters to a number of volumes and is also author of several articles appearing in Communio, First Things, New Polity, The Political Science Reviewer, Modern Theology, Pro Ecclesia, and Theology Today.  He has lectured widely at universities and other settings, including the United Nations, and has appeared in numerous podcasts and online interviews.

For more information, please contact Matt Boyer at mboyer@connollygallagher.com.