2010 Conference Schedule
2010 “Caring for God’s Creation” Summer Conference
| Wednesday, June 9 |
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| 7:00 pm |
Opening Reception |
The Black Labrador
4100 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006 |
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| Thursday, June 10 |
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| 8:00 am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
Jerabeck 1st Floor |
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| 9:00 am |
Opening Mass |
St. Basil Chapel |
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Most Rev. Daniel Cardinal DiNardo |
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| 10:45 am |
Overview of the Day – Dr. John Francis Burke |
Scanlan Room |
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Director, The Young Institute |
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False Prophets: Environmental Controversy, Private Interest Science, and Who Gets Hurt |
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Keynote address by Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, University of Notre Dame. This address explains why most people in the US are misled about environmental pollutants and the harm they cause and how we Catholics can help stop this harm, both to those in the US and to poor nations who will be most hurt by climate change. |
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Lunch |
Jerabeck 1st Floor |
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| 1: 15 pm |
Breakout Sessions |
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Session I – Environmental Justice and Children’s Health |
Room 201 |
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Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette |
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This session provides an overview of how and why thousands of children are needlessly killed annually by pollution, how we can stop this harm, and why Church teaching, esp. of the US Bishops, have put a special emphasis on curbing environmental injustice to children. |
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Session II – Practical Theology: Creation
and Obligation |
Room 202 |
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Dr. Sherra Theisen |
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Participants will examine theological evidence revealed in selected texts of the Old and New Testaments that provide guidance on practical human living in the world, in history, toward the fulfillment of our Social Justice obligations to Care for God's Creation. |
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Session III - Going Green: Conscience Formation & Environmental Stewardship |
Room 207 |
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Mark Ciesielski, CCE |
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The session will explore and cultivate ecological strategies formulated by Pope Benedict XVI in order to generate the radical listening to the inner voice of God that is necessary for enacting environmental stewardship, ecological discernment and social justice. |
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Session IV – Fostering Yucatec Maya Sustainable
Practices Through Micro-Credits |
Room 211 |
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Dr. Eduardo Garcia-Frapolli |
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Participants will examine how traditional Yucatec Maya activities such as apiculture are playing an active role in conserving the medium tropical forest of the Northeast Yucatan Peninsula, a habitat for many species on the verge of extinction. The session will illustrate how micro-credits have become a trigger mechanism of local sustainable practices for fostering the Yucatec Maya diversified system of production without destabilizing people culturally, socially and productively |
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| 2:45 pm |
Roundtable |
Scanlan Room |
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Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Sherra Theisen, Walt Grazer, Dr. Eduardo
Garcia-Frapolli |
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Our panelists will discuss with the audience key themes and issues in environmental justice.
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| 4:00 pm |
Closing Liturgy (For the Day) |
Scanlan Room |
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| Friday, June 11 |
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| 8:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
Jerabeck 1st Floor |
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| 9:00 am |
Morning Prayer |
Scanlan Room |
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Overview of the Day - Dr. John Francis Burke, Director, The Young Institute |
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| 9:15 am |
Caring for God’s Creation |
Scanlan Room |
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Keynote address by Walter Grazer, USCCB |
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Protection of the environment is one of the central emerging challenges of the 21st century. What does the Church have to say about it and what is its contribution to the public discussion? This keynote address will present a framework of values from Catholic theology and social teaching that offers a distinct approach to developing an ethic of environmental stewardship. |
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| 10:45 am |
Breakout Sessions |
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Session V – Catholics Going Green |
Room 201 |
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Walter Grazer |
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Drawing upon the booklet study guide Catholics Going Green, this workshop will explore avenues for encouraging Catholics to accept their responsibility as stewards of God’s creation and to offer models for engagement in a variety of settings. |
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Session VI – Being Good Stewards: Practicing Environmental Justice |
Room 202 |
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Deacon Sam Dunning |
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This workshop will survey the practical ways in which we can practice environmental justice in our neighborhoods. Participants will be acquainted with various local projects and programs funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development that are focused on attaining environmental justice. |
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Session VII – Modern-day Slavery: the Value of the Human |
Room 207 |
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Person in Today’s World |
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Morgan Zamora |
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This seminar will familiarize participants with modern forms of human trafficking, explain how we are contributing to it in our everyday lives and offer insight into ways in which it can be eradicated through the empowerment of the individual person. |
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Session VIII – Practical Philosophy: Environment and You |
Room 211 |
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Dr. Sherra Theisen |
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Participants will examine primary philosophical evidence provided in the tradition of Augustine, Aquinas and Papal Encyclicals that offers guidance on practical human living in the world, in history, toward fulfillment of our obligations as outlined by the Social Justice teachings of the Church. |
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| 12:00 pm |
Lunch |
Jerabeck 1st Floor |
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| 1:15 pm |
Roundtable |
Scanlan Room |
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Action Session – Federal, State, and Local |
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Catholic Relief Services, Texas Catholic Conference, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Catholic Charities of Galveston-Houston, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston
Our panelists will review the advocacy agendas of Catholic Social Justice organizations at the transnational, federal, state, and regional levels. |
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| 2:30 pm |
Closing Liturgy and Reflection |
Scanlan Room |
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| 3:00 pm |
Closing Reception |
Scanlan Room |
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Presenters
Dr. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame - O’Neill Family Endowed Professor, Biological Sciences Dept. and Philosophy Dept.
Dr. Sherra Theisen, Ph. D., St. Mary’s University - Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy; Texas
Nature Project - Co-founder and CEO
Mark Ciesielski, CCE, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston - Associate Director, Offices of Continuing Christian Education and Youth Ministry
Dr. Eduardo Garcia-Frapolli, Ph. D., National Autonomous University of Mexico Ecosystems Research Center - Researcher
Walter Grazer, USCCB, National Religious Partnership for the Environment - Interim Director; formerly, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – Director, Environmental Justice Program
Deacon Sam Dunning, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston – Director, Office of Justice and Peace/Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Morgan Zamora, Students Working Against Trafficking (SWAT) – President
Deacon Joe Rubio, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Vice-President of Community Relations and Advocacy
Anna Kathryn Webb, Ph. D., Catholic Relief Services Southwest Regional Office – Relationship Manager, Catholic Higher Education
Jennifer Carr-Allmon, Texas Catholic Conference – Associate Director
Rev. Robert T. Kajoh , MSP, St. Philip Neri Catholic Church - Pastor
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