Moral and Character Education in Catholic Schools will be the topic of a presentation in the University of Notre Dame Club of Peoria’s Hesburgh Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Peoria.

The speaker will be Dr. Daniel K. Lapsley, a professor and chair in the department of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves on the executive board of the international Association for Moral Education, and on the editorial boards of the periodicals Child Development, Journal of Educational Theology, and the Journal of Early Adolescence.

The lecture is open to the public, and admission is free. Refreshments will be served following the lecture. For more information on either the lecture or the University of Notre Dame Club of Peoria, contact Karen Metzinger, (309) 243-8009, or Mike Seghetti, (309) 692-3127.