The Clavius Group has taken seriously its obligation to bring the Good News to the professional mathematics world and to the surrounding lay community. Thus Masses have been said at international congresses and annual meetings of the American Mathematical Society as well as at small village churches. In the summer, daily Mass is a sharing experience which is the centerpiece of the work day or play-day for all of the group. Several times each summer the children, under guidance, have planned readings and their own active parts in the liturgy of the Children's Mass. Travel has become second nature to this group. The traveling has been valuable professionally and the children have benefited enormously in learning geography, history, and local cultures.
Seminars start up where they left off the year before.
In these lectures members of the group or other mathematicians present their research work and collaborate in studying new areas, ranging from new discoveries to classical theories of the last century. Clavius members' research interests vary widely. Tom Banchoff's colorful computer animated films of four-dimensional geometry have been applauded by general audiences around the world. Whitman and Ron Knill work with Vatican Jesuit astrophysicist Fr. Bill Stoeger, S.J. in striving to pierce the captivating mysteries of the geometry of space-time.