Saturday, February 8, 3:00 p.m., at OLR Hall :
The Future of the Church in the Light of the Clergy Abuse Scandals, with Dr. Rosemary Ellmer. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Ellmer has worked for over 15 years at Santa Clara University both as an adjunct professor and a clinical psychologist and training director at the university’s counseling center. She will share her frank reflections from the fields of psychology and theology on the current crisis facing the church. At the request of Bishop P.J. McGrath, in the fall of 2018 she moderated the four diocese-wide listening sessions held to seek input from people in the pews on the pathway to reform and to listen to those victimized by clerical sexual abuse.
Fr. Kevin Ballard SJ Lenten Season 2018, Retreat Joy of the Gospels
Bro. Guy Consolmagno, SJ Astronomer, Author, Director, Vatican Observatory. Would You Baptise an Alien?
Morgan Adkinson, Filmmaker, Documentarian, The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas Merton
Sr. Kathleen Deignan SND, Musician, Lecturer Thomas Merton Scholar, A Retreat, Merton and the Shakers
Fr. John Dear, Peace Activist, Nobel Prize Nominee, The Nonviolent Life
Fr Daniel Kiriti, Pastor, Naivasha Parish, Kenya, TMC Member, The Challenges Faced by an African Priest
Cathrine Wanjoa,, Founder, Director, Life Bloom, Reclaiming the Lives of Exploited and Abused Women
Pasquale Esposito, Italian Tenor, Caruso Scholar, In Concert at the Historic St Thomas Aquinas Church
Joyce Randolph, Singer, and Bill Bell Pianist, A Concert, Joyce Randolph Sings the Gospels