FSE theologian is keynote speaker at Austrian conference

FALLS CHURCH, VA (05-15-2007) - Sister M. Timothy Prokes, FSE is one of two keynote speakers at an international symposium in Gaming, Austria, May 18-20, 2007. The conference, "Man and Woman He Created Them: John Paul II's Theology of the Body" is being held at a restored fourteenth century Carthusian monastery in Gaming, Austria, site of Franciscan University's European campus. Sister Timothy's presentation is titled "The Meaning of the Body as 'Gift in the Divine Image': John Paul's Theology of the Body and the Increasingly Virtual Culture of our Time."

Sister Timothy is a Professor of Theology at Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College, Alexandria, Virginia. She is the author of several books on the theology of the body.