CPPCD Convention

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Awards

Two awards were given during the 2011 conference:

  • Yves Congar Award
    Most Revererend Howard J. Hubbard, Bishop of Albany

  • Lumen Gentium Award
    Most Reverend Matthew H. Clark, Bishop of Rochester

 


Presentations

Presentations from the 2011 Annual Conference are available for download in PDF format (and in other formats, as noted).

 

Convention program

The convention program can be downloaded in PDF format

 

Keynote Speakers

  • Sr. Donna Ciangio, OP Director, Church Leadership Consultation

    Sr. Ciagio is a Dominican sister of Caldwell, New Jersey and holds a doctorate from Drew University. She is the director of Church Leadership Consultation, through which she works internationally and nationally in promoting parish vitality and pastoral direction, leadership development, faith formation, small Christian communities, and consulting and planning with parishes and dioceses. Sister Donna is an adjunct faculty member in Drew University’s Doctor of Ministry program and serves at St. Rose of Lima, Short Hills as pastoral facilitator. She serves as a consultant for RCL Benziger Publishing Company. Her articles have appeared in Today’s Parish, Ligourian, CHURCH Magazine, and in publications from Crossroads, Paulist Press, St. Anthony Messenger Press, and Ave Maria Press.
  • Rev. David Couturier, OFM Cap Director of Pastoral Planning, Archdiocese of Boston

    Rev. Couturier is the Director of Pastoral Planning for the Archdiocese of Boston and adjunct professor of spiritual theology at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome and St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York. He is also a Research Analyst on Economic Issues for the Franciscan Action Network in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Four Conversions: A Spirituality of Transformation (2008) and The Fraternal Economy: A Pastoral Psychology of Franciscan Economics (2007). His most recent article, “Priestly Formation, Dean Hoge and the First Wisdom of Sociology” will be published in the January 2011 issue of The Seminary Journal.

  • Rev. John Cusick, Director of Young Adult Ministry, Archdiocese of Chicago

    Rev. Cusick is the Director of Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese. He is responsible for the Church's outreach to women and men in their twenties and thirties, married and single. A former seminary faculty member, Fr. Cusick is a renowned writer and preacher across the United States, and has been duly awarded by academic, civic and ecclesial communities. Most recently, Fr. Cusick and Dr. Katherine DeVries launched the Ruah Project, a bold and aggressive outreach to young adults. The Kateri Center for Young Adult Ministry and the Isaac Hecker Center for Young Adult Ministry are the first two of ten regional centers for Young Adult Ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

  • Sr. Brenda Hermann, MSBT and Msgr. James Gaston, Co-Authors, Build a Life-Giving Parish: The Gift of Counsel in the Modern World

    Sr. Hermann is a member of the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity and a resident of Baltimore, MD. Since the early 1980's, Sr. Brenda's work has been as a consultant and facilitator for organizations whose internal culture often prevents them from living out their mission. Her work with Councils began in the early 1980's. She believes that councils in the Church have yet to be founded according to their true purpose. This belief has led to the premise articulated in the book, Build a Life Giving Parish, the Gift of Counsel in the Church by Hermann and Gaston. Sr. Brenda is presently developing geographic Councils for the Missionary Cenacle Family. These councils, consisting of laity, religious, and ordained are located in Central and South America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and throughout the US.

    Msgr. Gaston is a priest of the Diocese of Greensburg, PA, has been associated with pastoral councils at the parish, regional and diocese levels throughout his nearly four decades of ministry. In the 1990’s he was directly involved in developing diocesan guidelines for pastoral councils in the Diocese of Greensburg, PA (New Wine, New Wineskins) which have subsequently been implemented in other US dioceses. As a pastor, more recently, he has experienced an evolution in the understanding of pastoral councils beyond the primary role of planning. He believes, "It is time for another 'paradigm shift' in understanding the unique, ecclesial purpose of councils, and greater appreciation of the relationship that binds clergy and laity together in the pastoral mission they share."

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