Friday, March 31, 2006

Totus Tuus: The Source of John Paul's Greatness

From an Email received earlier today:

Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this event in honor of
the first anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II.

Totus Tuus: The Source of John Paul's Greatness is the title of a talk that will be given by John Mallon on April 2, 2006 at 3:00 pm at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Oklahoma City. St Francis Church is located at 1901 N W 19. the Church will be open at 2:45 with the talk beginning at 3pm. We will conclude with the praying of the Rosary.

Here is some info on John Mallon:

John Mallon received his bachelor's degree, Cum Laude, in theology from Boston College in 1989, where he was nominated to the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. Franciscan University of Steubenville offered him The University's Disciples of Christ Scholarship for a master¹s degree in theology, which he earned in 1993. In 1996 John received the Alumni Citizenship Award from Franciscan University in recognition of his contributions to civic life. As editor of the Sooner Catholic from 1994-97 the paper won 11 journalism awards. John has been an editorial consultant and a columnist for The Daily Oklahoman.

He served as a speech writer and communications director for Lieutenant Governor Mary Fallin of Oklahoma and attended the 2002 U.S. Bishops' meeting in Dallas at the invitation of, and as a consultant on Catholic issues to then-Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating.

From 1997 to the present he has been Contributing Editor for Inside the Vatican magazine, where he has a monthly column, Status Ecclesiae. His work has also appeared in The Washington Times, OpinionJournal.com , The National Review Online , WorldNetDaily , the Boston Globe, Catholic World Report, AD 2000 (Australia), The National Catholic Register, Crisis, The Boston Pilot, Catholic Online , The Fact Is.org , The Messenger of St. Anthony (Italy), Columbia magazine, This Rock, Hearth (now Canticle), and The New Oxford Review. His articles have been translated into German, French and Spanish.

His book contributions include Spiritual Journeys: Towards the Fullness of Faith; The Madison Center Common Sense Guide to American Colleges 1991-1992; Operation Rescue: A Challenge to the Nation's Conscience, by Philip Lawler; Their Faith has Touched Us: The Legacies of Three Young Oklahoma City Bombing Victims, by Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda.

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John Mallon's Column Status Ecclesiae appears monthy in Inside the Vatican magazine and now on the ITV website here:
http://insidethevatican.com/articles.htm

See John Mallon's Archive at TheFactIs.Org Here: http://www.thefactis.org/default.aspx?control=AuthorMaster&type=articles&authid=6

And his Reality Check Archive on Catholic Online at http://www.catholic.org/featured/reality_check.php

Also visit John Mallon's Archive at http://www.petersvoice.com/mallon/index.html

And Blog: http://mallonsmedia.blogspot.com/

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