Reading Groups

STM offers a selection of reading groups that focus on specific areas of study and their relationship to Catholic life. The reading groups meet once a month, usually over a meal, to discuss readings that are current, engaging and easy to manage with a full course load. For more information on STM's reading groups contact Pauline Little.

Faith and Policy
Faith & Policy is a reading group that is open to students and community members and meets once a month. It is an opportunity for discussion around a current policy topic and how our Catholic faith calls us to respond to these issues. Examples of past themes are immigration, political polarization within our Catholic communities, funding cuts to USAID, the USCCB legislative priorities and the war in Ukraine. Readings are taken from the USCCB website, papal encyclicals, pastoral letters, Vatican news and other Catholic periodicals.

Faith and Science
The Faith and Science reading group examines the intersection of Christianity's and science's approach to human rights, stewardship and life's unknowns. These conversations include how to apply new learnings and have led to more environmentally sustainable practices within the STM community.

Women Reading Theology
Women Reading Theology is a gathering of intergenerational Yale women. The group meets to discuss theology written by contemporary Catholic women.

Faith & Poetry
Faith & Poetry is a student-led group that meets once a month. There is no needed reading ahead of time. Participants are invited to notice and explore spiritual/faith themes that are present in the poem. Some examples of past poems are Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot; Clearances by Seamus Heaney; Celestial Music by Louise Gluck; and God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ.