The Catholic Common Ground Initiative 2003 participants

National Catholic Reporter, April 25, 2003

The following Catholic Common Ground Initiative Committee members attended the 2003 San Antonio conference:

R. Scott Appleby, director of the University of Notre Dame's Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Sidney Callahan, McKeever Chair of Moral Theology at St. John's University, Queens, N.Y.; Peter Casarella, associate professor of systematic theology in religious studies at The Catholic University of America; Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB, professor of church history at St. Meinrad School of Theology in Indiana; Thomas Donnelly, board member of The Catholic University of America in Washington; Sr. Sharon Euart, RSM, consultant on matters of canon law; Sr. Doris Gottemoeller, RSM, senior vice president for mission and values integration at Catholic Healthcare Partners; Fr. Robert Imbelli, associate professor of theology at Boston College; Ann Chih Lin, assistant professor of public policy and political science in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb of Mobile, Ala.; Msgr. Philip Murnion, director of New York's National Pastoral Life Center; Cincinnati Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk; Bishop Ricardo Ramirez, CSB; of Las Cruces, N.M.; Sr. Katarina Schuth, OSF, endowed chair for the Social Scientific Study of Religion at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.

Staff members Sr. Donna Ciangio, OP, and Sr. Catherine Patten, RSHM, coordinator of the Catholic Common Ground Initiative, also attended.

Participants invited to take part in this year's discussion included:

Chris Alderete, president of the San Antonio Archdiocesan Commission for Women; Fr.

Jeremiah Boland, Chicago archdiocese's delegate for externs and international priests; Fr. Gerald Brown, SS, rector-president of Assumption Seminary in San Antonio; Fr. Neil Connoily, pastor of St. Mary's Church, Manhattan, N.Y.; Ernesto Cortes Jr., Southwest Regional Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation; Fr. Donald Cozzens, visiting professor of religious studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland; Marilyn Donnelly, advisory council member of the International Poetry Forum; Fr. Gerald Fogarty, S J, professor of religious studies and history at the University of Virginia; Fr. David Garcia, rector of San Antonio's San Fernando Cathedral; Paul Griffiths, Arthur Schmitt professor of Catholic studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago; Fr. Douglas Haefner, pastor of the Catholic Community of St. Matthias in Somerset, N.J.; Fr. Mark Hession, pastor of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, Mass.; Msgr, Francis Kelley, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Boston; Patricia Kelly, psychologist and founder of Kelly Counseling & Consulting; Fr. R.J. Cletus Kiley, executive director of the secretariat for priestly life and ministry, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington; Robert Kusenberger Jr., permanent deacon in the San Antonio archdiocese; Carmen Mason, an active member of St. Matthew's Parish, San Antonio; Fr. Enda McDonagh, Irish moral theologian and lecturer; Sheila McLaughlin, director of the Joseph Bernardin Center for Theology and Ministry at Chicago's Catholic Theological Union; Fr. William Morell, OMI, president of Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio; Fr. Edward Oakes, SJ, associate professor of theology at Regis University, Denver; Thomas O'Donnell, counsel of Boston law firm Ropes & Gray; Roberto Pina, pastoral team member for the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio; Christopher Ruddy, assistant professor at St: John's University, Coliegeville, Minn.; Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB, instructor of theology, liturgical music and Gregorian chant at St. John's University; Gerald Shea, assistant to the president for government affairs at the AFL-CIO; Msgr. Dennis Sheehan, pastor of St. Paul Church, Cambridge, Mass.; Fr. Robert Silva, president of the National Federation of Priests' Councils; Fr. Thomas Singer, OMI, member of the General Council of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Rome; Msgr. John Strynkowski, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' department of doctrine and pastoral practices; Fr. Donald Wolf, pastor of Assumption Parish in Duncan, Okla.; Sr. Susan Wood, SCL, theology professor and associate dean for the School of Theology at St. John's in Collegeville.