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Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
November 9-11, 2005 |
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Available for Continuing Education Credit and ACT 48 hours. |
Registration Fees:
- General: $ 100.00
- Students and Seniors: $ 40.00
- Institutional Group: $ 25.00 / per member
(Minimum 10 persons)
- Villanova
Students, Faculty & Staff Free.
For information about and to arrange for Continuing Education Credit, call
610-519-5431. |
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Walk in Registration
Available During the Conference.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2005
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2:00 - 4:00
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Registration
Lower Level - Atrium
Connelly Center
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4:00 pm
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
"Catholic Social Teaching and Ecology"
Bishop Walter
Sullivan
Diocese of Richmond
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5:30 -7:00 pm |
Dinner
- On Your Own |
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7:00 pm |
"Global Change into
the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenge of Using 'Science and Technology in
a Full and Constructive Way'"
Kelman
Wieder
Villanova University
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Thursday, November 10, 2005 |
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8:30 am
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Continental Breakfast Provided
Lower Level - Atrium
Connelly Center
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8:45 - 9:45 am
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Concurrent Sessions
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"Ecology and the Common Good:
Sustainability and Catholic Social Teaching"
Russell Butkus and Steven Kolmes
University of Portland
"An Examination of Responsibility in a Creation Context"
Erin Lothes Biviano
St. John's University
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10:00 - 11:15 am |
"Catholic Social Teaching and the
Environment: A Pastoral Response "
Walter
Grazer
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
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| 11:30 -
12:45 pm |
"Hope is a
Thing with Feathers: Indians and the Environment "
Jace Weaver
University of Georgia
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12:
45
- 1:30 pm
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LUNCH
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1:30 - 2:45 pm |
"Holy Ground: Catholic Social Teaching, Protestant Ecotheology,
and a New Vision of Creation as the Landed Sacred"
Mark Wallace
Swarthmore College
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3:00 - 4:15 pm |
"Science, Religion and the Environment"
Mark Sagoff
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy |
4:30 - 5:30 pm
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Concurrent
Sessions
"Global Climate Change and Catholic Responsibility:
Facts and Faith Response"
Gerald
Braun - Renewable Energy Consultant
Malcolm
Byrnes - Biochemist
"Wonder World, Not Wasteland:
The Ecological Vision of Thomas Berry"
John O'Brien
Calvary Retreat Center "Canadian
Models of Ecological Justice:
Women's Religious Communities"
Cristina Vanin
St. Jerome's' University
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5:30
- 7:00 pm
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DINNER
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7:00 pm
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"Cosmology:
A
Vital Link to Opening the Ecological Wisdom of Catholic Social Thought "
Mirian MacGillis
Co-Founder of the Genesis Farm
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Friday, November 11, 2005
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8:00 am
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Continental
Breakfast Provided
Lower Level - Atrium
Connelly Center
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8:30 - 9:30 am |
"Systems Ecology as
the Science of Connection"
Robert Costanza
University of Vermont
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9:30 - 10:45 am
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"Discerning
the Environmental Perspective of Pope Benedict XVI"
Lucia Silecchia
Catholic University of America
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12:15 pm |
"Joining
the Earth Community: The Challenge of Globalization and Sustainability"
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Forum on Religion and Ecology -
Bucknell University
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12:15
pm
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CLOSING
RECEPTION |
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Documents: |
Declaration on the
Environment
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