AnnualSymposium
The Constitution & Catholic Social Teaching: A Healthy Tension
(Thanks be to God!) - Annual Roundtable Symposium and Membership Meeting
Join us for the 27th Annual Symposium - February 11-12, 2012
at the Washington Marriot Wardman Park
(2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington DC 20008).
The Catholic Social Ministry Gathering will take place February 12-15, 2012.
Registration will be available at catholicsocialministrygathering.org beginning in late fall 2011.
Download the promotional flyer.
Program Schedule
Saturday, February 11, 2012
- New Member Meeting 2:00 pm-3:00 pm
- Symposium Featuring Dr. Maryann Love 3:00 pm-5:30 pm
- The Roundtable Harry A. Fagan & Servant of Justice Awards Banquet
Honoring Jan Benton(Fagan Award) and Msgr. Marv Mottet (Servant of Justice Award). Address by Jan Benton.
Reception 6:30 pm-7:30 pm
Dinner 7:30 pm-10:00 pm
Sunday, February 12, 2012
- Breakfast 8:00 am-8:30 am
- Symposium Featuring Fr. Bryan Hehir and Dr. Dan Finn 8:30 am-11:00 am
- Membership Meeting 12:30 pm-2:00 pm
- The Symposium Luncheon 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Featuring address by Msgr. Marv Mottet, Diocese of Davenport
Costs:
- The Roundtable Annual Symposium - Feb. 11-12 (includes awards banquet, Sunday breakfast & luncheon): $275
- Harry A. Fagan & Servant of Justice Awards Banquet - Feb. 11: $120
- Roundtable Luncheon - Feb. 12: $80
Note: Questions have been raised occassionally about price to attend the Symposium & Awards events. Our costs determined primarily by the prices charged for food at the hotel (in addition to hosting speakers).
Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love
Dr. Love is a Fellow at the Commission on International Religious Freedom, and teaches International Relations courses at Catholic University and the Pentagon. She serves on: the U.S. Catholic Bishops' International Justice and Peace Committee, where she advises the bishops on international affairs and foreign policy, and engages in advocacy with the U.S. government; the Advisory Board of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network; and the board and Communications Committee of Jesuit Refugee Services.
Dr. Love is a frequent speaker on international affairs issues and addressed the United Nations at the request of the Vatican on the topic of Religious Peacebuilding last October. She is a columnist for America magazine and also regularly gives faculty development workshops on participatory teaching techniques.
Dr. Love lives on the Chesapeake Bay with her husband and three young children, who inspired her four New York Times best-selling children's books.
Fr. J. Bryan Hehir
J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also the Secretary for Health and Social Services for the Archdiocese of Boston. Prior to assuming these positions Fr. Hehir served as President of Catholic Charities USA, in 2001-03. From 1973-1992 he served on the staff of the USCCB addressing issues of foreign and domestic policy for the church. From 1984-1992, he served on the faculty at Georgetown University in the School of Foreign Service and the Kennedy Institute of Ethics.
Fr. Hehir took his A.B. and Master of Divinity degrees at St. John's Seminary and his Doctor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research and writing focus on issues of ethics and foreign policy, Catholic social ethics and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. His publications include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change, Military Intervention and National Sovereignty, Catholicism and Democracy, Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition and The Moral Dimension in the Use of Force.
Dr. Daniel K. Finn
Daniel Finn is Professor of Moral Theology and Clemens Professor of Economics at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. He is a past-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Association for Social Economics. His books include The Moral Ecology of Markets: a Framework for Assessing Justice in Economic Life (Cambridge, 2006) and The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life (Oxford, 2010).
See photos from the 2011 Symposium and Award Banquet.
Recent SASI Conference Topics
2012: The Constitution & Catholic Social Teaching: A Healthy Tension (Thanks be to God!)
2011: "Fear Not": Addressing a Culture of Fear with Prayerful Conversation
2010: Restoring All Things in Christ: Reclaiming God’s Covenant through Right Relationship
2009: The Right to Food in the 21st Century: Responding Locally to the Global Food Crisis
2008: Promoting Family, Community & Participation in an Election Year
2007: Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: Peacemakers in a World of Conflict
2006: Words that Work: Framing the Catholic Message
2005: Crisis and Opportunity: Social Action in the Church of the 21st Century