The Seton Hill University National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education (NCCHE) will present the Eva Fleischner, Ph.D. Endowed Lecture featuring Dr. Elena Procario-Foley, who is the Brother John G. Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Core Curriculum at Iona University.
 
The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 at 7 p.m. in Cecilian Hall on the second floor of Seton Hill’s Administration Building.
 
Dr. Procario-Foley will be introduced by The Most Rev. Larry J. Kulick, Bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, before giving her guest lecture titled, “Dignity and Friendship: The Moral Authority of Jewish-Catholic Dialogue in Our Time.” This event will celebrate the 60th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, the 1965 Declaration on the Church's Relationship to Non-Christian Religions issued by the Second Vatican Council.
 
The lecture is sponsored by the Seton Hill University National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education (NCCHE) through its Eva Fleischner, Ph.D., Endowed Lecture Fund.
 
The Eva Fleischner, Ph.D. Endowed Lecture Series is named for the late Eva Flesichner, a well-regarded scholar of women in the Holocaust and Jewish-Christian relations, as well as a close associate of the Seton Hill University National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education. The Fleischner family, including her late brother, Hans Fleischner, and his wife, Leslie Fleischner, established the lecture series at Seton Hill to carry on her legacy of scholarship and interreligious dialogue.
 
About the Speaker:

Dr. Elena Procario-Foley is the Brother John G. Driscoll Professor of Jewish-Catholic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Director of the Core Curriculum at Iona University. Procario-Foley holds Ph.D. and MA degrees in Theology from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and a BA in Theology and Philosophy from Fordham University. Dr. Procario-Foley’s research and teaching focuses on systematic theology and Jewish-Christian Relations. She has served on several boards of directors including serving as chair of the Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations, secretary of the College Theology Society, and as an at-large board member of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Dr. Procario-Foley serves on the board of the Stimulus Foundation of Paulist Press, a publishing imprint focused on supporting scholarship in Jewish-Christian relations. She has also served on the board of Theta Alpha Kappa: National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology.