FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2001 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 ARCHBISHOP AND RENOWNED CHURCH SCHOLAR TO GIVE BUCKSBAUM LECTURE AT DRAKE MARCH 28 Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee and Martin Marty, the Fairfax Cone distinguished service professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, will jointly give the Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture at Drake University on Wednesday, March 28. Their "conversation lecture" will focus on "The Situation of Pluralism: Catholic Faith, Other Christian Faiths, and the Faiths of Non-Christians." The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will start at 8 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium in Old Main, 26th Street and University Avenue. A reception will follow in the adjacent Levitt Hall in Old Main. In addition to the lecture, Weakland and Marty will participate in an informal conversation on "Religion and American Public Life" at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 28, in the Reading Room of Cowles Library, 28th Street and University Avenue. This event is free and open to the public. Marty, who is a Lutheran minister, will join Weakland in speaking at a buffet breakfast at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 29, in St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Student Center, 28th Street and Brattleboro Avenue. They will discuss "Catholic/Lutheran Conversations, Update and Prospects." Reservations are required for the breakfast, which costs $5 per person. For more information and reservations, call (515) 271-4747. Weakland, who has presided over the Archdiocese of Milwaukee since 1977, is a leader of the progressives in the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and in the Catholic Church at large. Prior to his appointment as archbishop, he served as abbot primate for the Benedictine Order. Earlier in his career, Weakland studied music in Italy, France and Germany as well as at the Juilliard School of Music and Columbia University, New York. He taught music at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Penn., from 1957 to 1963. In 1999, at age 72, he received a Ph.D. in musicology with distinction from Columbia University, for his research and thesis on "The Office Antiphons of the Ambrosian Chant." Marty is one of the most respected and distinguished church scholars in the country. He taught for 35 years at the University of Chicago. When he retired in 1998, the University established the Martin Marty Center in its Divinity School in his honor. He is senior editor of The Christian Century and an author of more than 40 books. In 1994, Drake University awarded Marty his 51st honorary doctorate. Most recently, Marty has served as interim president of St. Olaf College, where he has chaired the Board of Regents for six years and served on the board for 12 years. The Martin Bucksbaum Distinguished Lecture Series, established at Drake in 1996, is made possible by a gift from Melva and the late Martin Bucksbaum.