Sacred Heart Gathering for Peace and Justice: “Peace and Planet: Imperatives for the 21st. Century.”

Sacred Heart Gathering for Peace and Justice
Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Broadway & Ferry, Camden NJ
Saturday, February 13, 2016 9:00 am – 3:15 pm
Registration and Welcome 8:15 – 8:45 AM
Free Admission * Lunch Provided

“Peace and Planet: Imperatives for the 21st. Century.”

Schedule
8:15-8:45 AM-Registration and Hospitality Cafeteria
9:00-9:15 AM Opening Welcome and Prayer
9:15-10:00-Keynote Address, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
10:15-11:30 AM-Morning Discussion Groups
11:45-12:45 PM-Lunch Cafeteria
1:00-1:45 PM-Keynote Address, Mark Doorley
2:00-2:45 PM-Discussion Panel-Thomas Gumbleton & Mark Doorley
3:00-3:15 PM-Closing Program Church

Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, a retired auxiliary bishop of the Detroit archdiocese, is a leading voice for peace, justice, and civil rights in the United States. He is a co-author of the 1983 U.S. Catholic Bishops’ Conference Pastoral Letter, “The Challenge of Peace.” One of the first bishops to speak out against the Vietnam War, he is a founding member and past president of Pax Christi USA, the American Catholic peace movement. He is also a founder and former president of Bread for the World. He has traveled throughout the world calling for an end to war and the abolition of nuclear weapons. He has spoken out courageously on behalf the victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, and he has advocated for the full participation and the rights of women and homosexuals in the Catholic Church. His homilies are read by thousands each week in the National Catholic Reporter.

Mark Doorley, Ph.D., is the director of the Ethics Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Villanova University where he has been since 1996. He is one of the founders of the Center for Environmental Transformation (CFET), in Camden, NJ. He served as the chair of the board for the first 8 years of its existence, stepping down this past December. He became involved in the effort that became CFET because he is convinced that Christianity has much to offer in terms of renewing humanity’s understanding of, and relationship with, the universe. He earned a Masters in Divinity at the Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Boston College in 1994. In communion with Pope Francis, Doorley affirms that environmental justice is not justice without peace, peace between human beings, peace between humanity and mother earth, peace in our own hearts.

Supporters and Co-sponsors for this annual event include Brandywine Peace Community, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Center for Transformation, Coalition for Peace Action, and Pax Christi NJ.

Registration:
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Need Handicapped Access? Y/N Joining us for lunch? Y/N Vegetarian? Y/N
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Phone: 609-792-1094

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We GUARANTEE free lunch for all registrants. Walk-ins should bring own bagged lunch.

For this event to be as inclusive as possible, we want it to be a Fragrance Free Event.