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Convention
2005
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Convention
Schedule |
| New
Directors Workshop |
| Pre-Convention
Workshop |
| Plenary
Sessions |
| Workshops |
| Hotel
Reservations and Information |
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Monday
Plenary Session
Archbishop
Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee, chair of the USCCB Priestly Life and
Ministry Committee, keynotes our convention’s commitment to
revitalizing the U.S. bishops’
Basic Plan
for the Ongoing Formation of Priests.
Almost five years ago the U.S. bishops promulgated
The Basic
Plan “to make the ongoing
formation of priests an effective reality” throughout the United
States. As we look forward to the next five years of
implementation, Archbishop Dolan will help us map out new
strategies to champion continuing formation for the priests of
our nation’s dioceses and religious communities.
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Tuesday Plenary Session |
Dr. Bryan Froehle and Father Louis Cameli are presenters and
facilitators for an interactive morning and afternoon of study,
reflection, and dialogue. The day focuses on the US bishops’
Basic Plan, the current state of ongoing formation for priests
in the United States, and future challenges and opportunities
for cultivating a culture of ongoing formation for priests.
Fr. Cameli
is director of ongoing formation of priests for the Archdiocese
of Chicago and was The Basic Plan’s principal writer. Dr.
Froehle is a pastoral sociologist and executive director of the
St. Catherine of Siena Center at Dominican University, River
Forest, Illinois.
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Thursday
Plenary Session
In her
closing address, “The Radical Communitarian Form of the
Presbyterate: Acting in the Name of the Church of Whom Christ is
the One Head,” Dr. Theresa Koernke, IHM addresses the shifting
understanding of the Call to share in the College of Presbyters
by exploring the sources of the scholastic theology that
determined the understanding and practice of ordained ministry
until Vatican II. This exploration enables a richer grasp of New
Testament Communion Ecclesiology—the Church as composed of
persons in a set of relationships with each other and with the
Christ in the ongoing redemption of the world.
Dr. Koernke
is associate professor of Word and Worship and Systematic
Theology and chair, Department of Word and Worship, at
Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC. |
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