Dennis Coday
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Apr. 25, 2017
NCR Today
I just received this press release from the Association of U.S.
Catholic Priests. The association's annual meeting will convene in
Atlanta, Georgia, this June. Below are the details:
The AUSCP 2017 Assembly, Peacemaking in Our Fractured Society, will be held June 19-22 at the Airport Marriott in Atlanta.
Speakers will include social ethicist Father Bryan Massingale on "TO
REDEEM THE SOUL OF AMERICA" — Martin Luther King’s Vision and Its
Challenge to American Catholics, on Monday, June 19 at 7
p.m.; JustFaith founder Jack Jezreel on POPE FRANCIS AND A NEW PARADIGM
FOR PARISHES, on Tuesday, June 20, at 9:30 a.m.; and Archbishop Wilton
Gregory, on PEACE NOT AS THE WORLD GIVES, on Tuesday, June 20, at 1 p.m.
Archbishop Gregory will also preside at Mass, on Wednesday, June 21,
3:30 p.m., at Our Lady of Lourdes Church near the King Center in
Atlanta.
Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv., Diocese of Savannah, will guide a
retreat on the first day of the assembly, Monday, June 19, on the
topic, SABBATH SPACE FOR GRACE.
The AUSCP will present its highest honors, the Pope John
Paul XXIII Awards, during a banquet Wednesday Evening, June 21. Honorees
will be Father Bryan Massingale “for his tireless efforts to create a
world where the dignity of each person is respected and protected,” and
Father Richard Rento, “for his dedication to priestly life and pastoral
service, and for the pastoral wisdom he has embodied and exercised in
his ministry, preaching and writing.”
Massingale is a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham
University in New York. His recent book is Racial Justice and the
Catholic Church (Orbis, 2010).
Rento is a priest of the Diocese of Paterson. Over 58 years, he has
ministered as pastor, administrator, educator, hospital chaplain, radio
broadcaster, lecturer, and retreat-giver.
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