As the Year of Grace 2011 ended, I reviewed my “to write” file for the blog, and found no less than 22 pages of notes on events and ideas I had not had time to develop into full posts. Here is a list of some highlights from the last year, with links to posts if I have them and as I develop them!

December:

• Mom visits Rome!
• Christmas at Caravita; generosity of hosts for Christmas Eve (Cindy) and Christmas Day (Jill)
• Lay Centre Board member Ralph Dwan called home to God
• Interdisciplinary Conference on Sharing Sacred Spaces
• Lord Jonathan Sacks lecture
• Lay Centre 25^th Anniversary and Papal Knighthood for co-founders
• Chicago CTU Board in Rome, new Alliance with Lay Centre
• my step-sister wins a new car!

November:

• Cardinal Kasper in the classroom: Unity, Catholicity, and Apostolicity of the Church
• Colloquium on Anglican Patrimony in Light of the Apostolic Constitution: Liturgical Perspectives – Bishop Stephen Platten of Wakefield; Canon Jonathan Goodall; Fr. Keith Pecklers, SJ
• Board of Governors of the Anglican Centre visit the Lay Centre
• Canon Nicholas Sagovsky lecture, “Being an Anglican in 21^st century”
• Embassy DVC on Religion in Foreign Policy with ND 
• Angelicum Rector Charles Morerod, OP nominated bishop of Fribourg, Lausanne, and Geneva
• Casa Internationale Giovanni XXIII: The other lay collegio in Rome

October:

• Pilgrimage of Peace, Pilgrimage of Truth: 25^th Anniversary of Assisi gathering of World’s Religious Leaders
• Tom Ryan, CSP in Rome
• Russell Berrie Orientation: Shabbat Shopping during Sukkot
• Lay Centre Orientation: Yom Kippur and an Israeli’s first Mass
• Ambassador Miguel Diaz helps launch Religion in Foreign Policy initiative

September:

• Muslim-Monastic Dialogue

August:

• Short visit home in the Pacific Northwest
• Cascade Covenant Church
• Helping my sister move: 16 hours on the road, 45 minutes unpacking the truck
• My brother’s new house

July:

• Netherlands: visiting Eveline, Clare
• New York/New Jersey: visiting Courtney, Liam, Rob
• Lay Centre 25^th Anniversary Colloquium: My paper on the laity and ecumenism

June:

• Archbishop Sartain of Seattle in Rome for Pallium
• EuroPride in Rome – monastic perspectives from the hill

May

• Notre Dame Chorale Concert at Sant’Ignazio: Michael and Kerri Castorano
• Eucharistic Procession with Cardinal Marc Ouellet
• Notre Dame Glee Club and Fr. Michael Driscoll in Rome
• Lay Centre alumnus Theodosius Kyriakidis debuts his documentary film on Greek Christians in Asia Minor; another alumnus Mustafa Cenap Aydin of Turkey responds
• Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald and Leijla Demiri present on Interfaith Dialogue of life
• Beatification of JPII

April:

• Fr. Michael Casey, O.Cist. visits Lay Centre
• Assisi and Florence with Courtney and co.
• David Ford and Stephen Kepnes: The Future of Theology
• Annual JPII Lecture David Ford on Scriptural Reasoning
• Paschal Triduum  in Rome
• Culture Week in Rome
• Meeting with Fr. Norbert Hofmann

March:

• Cardinal Walter Kasper, “Why I am a Man of Hope” lecture at Lay Centre
• Dame Mary Tanner at Anglican Center
• Colloquium on Anglican Patrimony in light of the Apostolic Constitution: A Canon Law Perspective

Earlier unwritten posts:

• Cardinal Levada visits the Lay Centre
• Springtime of Faith Summit in Rome – local presenters include two cardinals, two professors, and me!

Ideas, ongoing or upcoming:

• Liberal and Conservative in the Church (see june 26, Feb 2)
• Nostra Aetate, Dabru Amet, and Common Word
• ARCIC III and Personal Ordinariates
• Clericalism and Anti-clericalism
• Laïcite, laity, secularism, and secularity
• Vocations: discernment or recruiting office?
• Catholic Education beyond parochial schools
• “Catholic” vs. “Roman Catholic”: What’s in a Name?
• The Bologna Process and Pontifical Universities
• Papal honors as ecclesiological indicator
• Liturgy Wars: Episode V – The New Translation
• Call for a Common Easter
• The Big Sort
• Ecumenical Updates: Where have we got with all this dialogue?
• Wikipedia as Courtyard of the Gentiles: A call for biographical articles on great ecumenists and other theologians
• A Parable: The Kingdom of God is like the Electromagnetic Spectrum and it is Easier for a Colorblind Man to Pass Through 400-789 Terrahertz than to Enter it…
• Upcoming article in Koinonia
• Upcoming article and presentation for Assisi 2012: Ecclesiological Investigations Network conference

And finally: “The Diaconate in the International Ecumenical Dialogues: Toward an Understanding of the Deacon as Minister of Unity.” a tesina to be submitted for the License in Sacred Theology…