May 18-19, "Living Our Faith," A Parish Social Ministry Session

From the St Louis Review:

"God Is Love" is the topic of the keynote address at a parish social ministry regional training session in the St. Louis Archdiocese Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19.

The address will be given by John Carr, secretary of the U.S. bishops’ Department of Social Development and World Peace. The training will be held at the Cardinal Rigali Center, 20 Archbishop May Drive in Shrewsbury.

Parish social ministry training is a part of an effort of Catholic Charities and diocesan offices to support social ministry in the archdiocese. It is sponsored by the archdiocesan Human Rights Office in cooperation with Catholic Charities USA and the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau.

The training begins at 6 p.m. May 18 followed by the keynote address at 7 p.m. Saturday’s program will begin at 8 a.m. Sessions and presenters will be poverty in America, Allison Boisvert; communities of salt and light, Arthur Hippler; faithful citizenship, Deacon Larry Weber; pastoral circle, Donald Emge; and faith in action, Father Eugene Morris. The program will conclude following Mass at 4:30 p.m.

Registration fee is $40. For information contact Walt Gemmer at (314) 792-7645 or wgemmer@archstl.org.

I hope to have an opportunity to meet Dr. Arthur Hippler who will be speaking on the topic, "Communities of Salt and Light."

For those who may not recall, Dr. Hippler was the Director, Office of Justice and Peace, for the Diocese of La Crosse when Archbishop Burke was there. r Hippler has many excellent articles on the diocesan website which are no longer available online, as far as I know.

In December of 2003, Dr Hippler wrote a letter to the Post Dispatch for, if you can believe it, "distorting facts". That letter can be read here.

In 2004, he wrote an Open Letter to Sean Hannity, titled When "Conservatives" Dissent From Church Teaching which can be read here.

Other posts quoting or mentioning Dr Hippler can be viewed bu clicking here.

More information on the Parish Social Ministry Program is here.