Wethersfield Institute

02/12/2026

Join us at the Basilica on March 5th as we kick off a new lecture series on the Rites of the Catholic Church!

Speaker: Subdeacon Brian A. Butcher, PhD
The Alexandrian Tradition Within the Liturgical Diversity of the Catholic Church

Thursday, March 5, 2026
Basilica of St. Josaphat
6:00pm: Vespers (optional)
6:30pm: Lecture
Refreshments and Q&A to follow in the Undercroft

12/17/2025

Joining us for our first annual Salon and Panel Discussion?! Great! Catch up on all of the wonderful talks from our 2025 lecture series on the Ecumenical Councils that led up to this event here: https://www.youtube.com/

Questions for the speakers are welcome!

Dr. James Papandrea. Why Sunday's Creed is More Than Words: Orthodoxy, the Integrity of Christian Identity, and the Earliest Ecumenical Councils (0-500 A.D.)

Fr. Andrew Summerson. Working title: Hymning the Icon of the Invisible God: How the Later Christological Councils Show Us the Christ (500-1000 A.D.)

Dr. Donald Prudlo. Working title: Councils for Christendom and Beyond: Governing Perfection in the Central Middle Ages (1000-1500 A.D.)

Dr. Eric DeMeuse. Working title: Rupture or Reform?: From Trent to Vatican II (1500-2000 A.D.,)

Register here: https://www.wethersfieldinstitute.org/events/wethersfield-institute-salon-panel-discussion/form

12/12/2025

Please join us for our first annual Wethersfield Institute Salon & Panel Discussion as we discuss 2000 years of Ecumenical Councils of the Catholic Church!

Thursday, January 29, 2026

6:45 PM for a wine and cheese social
Panel Discussion at 7:15 PM

Italian Community Center
Milwaukee, 631 E Chicago St, Milwaukee, WI 53202, USA

Emcee:
Matthew Levering

Speakers:
Dr. Jim Papandrea
Fr. Andrew Summerson
Dr. Don Prudlo
Dr. Eric DeMeuse

AD 2025 marked the 1700th anniversary of Nicaea, the Catholic Church's first Ecumenical Council, and the 60th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II, her most recent. In commemoration of these milestones, the Wethersfield Institute hosted four lectures at the Basilica of St. Josaphat, each focusing on a 500-year epoch of councils. The Institute is bringing these speakers back to Milwaukee to help us understand the whole breadth of the Councils in one evening.

If you know you are able to join please RSVP here - https://www.wethersfieldinstitute.org/events-1

If you aren't sure if you can join, no worries! Please attend anyway, the more the merrier!

11/09/2025

Join us at the Basilica on November 20th for our last Stillman Lecture of 2025. We are very blessed to have the Seminary schola joining us for Vespers and to have Dr. DeMeuse talking on the most recent Ecumenical Councils.

Rupture or Reform?: From Trent to Vatican II

09/11/2025

Really looking forward to the talk this evening! Hope to see you all there!

09/02/2025

We are looking forward to the Pallium Lecture and Legacies Conference this week! We will have a table on Friday at the conference, stop by and say hello. Online registration for the conference is closed but you can still register in-person.

https://www.archmil.org/bishops/Pallium-Lecture-Series.htm

https://www.legaciesconference.org/

The year 2025 will mark two important anniversaries: 1700 years since the first ecumenical council, honored as such by all Christians, and 60 years since the closing of the most recent ecumenical council in the Catholic tradition. To commemorate these anniversaries, Catholic institutions in Milwauke...

06/26/2025

Just registered for what is guaranteed to be a great event and hope to see you all there! The 2025 Pallium Lecture is coming up on September 4th.

Get tickets online for Pallium Lecture 2025 here.

05/23/2025

2025 Stillman Lecture #2 - June 12th - Fr. Andrew Summerson

Mark your calendars for the next installment of the 2025 Stillman Lecture Series on the Councils! Join us at the Basilica of St Josaphat on June 12th to hear Fr. Andrew Summerson discuss the councils of the Church from 500 AD to 1000 AD - from Chalcedon to Nicaea II.

04/09/2025

Our friend, Kate Meyer, is hosting a chicken workshop this Saturday in Elkhorn, WI! This is bound to be a fantastic event!!