Ilia Delio

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What Does It Mean To Live In Evolution?

Recently, I was at a retreat house in New Jersey with a group of older religious Sisters who were finishing up a week of prayer and reflection.  I sat across…

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Finding Our Way In An Evolutionary World

What do we long for?  That is where our soul lies.  What do we hope for?  That is what stretches the heart.  When I was asked to give the Madeleva…

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 2)

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 2)

Download a copy of Ilia Delio’s PowerPoint presentation used at her event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 6, 2017. Download PDF

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 1)

Consciousness & Christogenesis: Mind, Matter & Emerging Wholeness (Part 1)

Download a copy of Ilia Delio’s PowerPoint presentation used at her event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on May 5, 2017. Download PDF

A Hunger for Wholeness – Madeleva Lecture – 2017

A Hunger for Wholeness – Madeleva Lecture – 2017

Ilia Delio, OSF, was honored as the 2017 Madeleva Lecturer. The Madeleva Lecture is named to honor Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, CSC. As the president of Saint Mary’s College, Sr.…

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Reading For An Evolutionary Age: An Omega Lectio Divina

The Omega Center engages new ideas on bridging science and religion primarily through the lens of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin but through other thinkers as well. Teilhard spent years in…

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Do We Make A Difference To God?

There are two questions that occupy my thoughts and I hope I can tie them together here.   The first is the question of ethics or, better yet, why we have…

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Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters

Professor Ilia Delio The Connelly Chair in Christian Theology Villanova University Catholicity, Cosmology and Consciousness: Why Wholeness Matters Twentieth century science has introduced a new understanding of wholeness through the…

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Love In An Age Of Distrust

In the 1960s Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, predicted that computing power would double every two years, increasing evolution at an exponential rate.   Technology has radically changed our lives…