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Red Mass 2019

The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy and Saint Thomas More Society of Philadelphia present Peter Steinfels Former Religion Correspondent, The New York Times University Professor Emeritus, Fordham University Former Editor, Commonweal The Church and the Scandal: New Challenges, New Questions Thursday, April 25, 2019 4:30 p.m. Laurence E. Hirsch '71 Classroom (Room 101) Author of a recent essay in Commonweal, "The PA Grand-Jury Report: Not What It Seems," Peter Steinfels is University Professor Emeritus at Fordham University and was previously co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. He was the senior religion correspondent for The New York Times from 1988 to 1997 and a columnist until 2010. His publications include A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America (2003). He has held positions at Georgetown University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Dayton, served as editor of the journal Commonweal, and been a consultant for the PBS series Religious and Ethics Newsweekly. He holds a PhD from Columbia University. The event takes place on Thursday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in the Laurence E. Hirsch '71 Classroom (Room 101) of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (299 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA). This program is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 1 substantive CLE credit. **The event is free and open to the public.** Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law 299 North Spring Mill Road 610-519-7000 www.law.villanova.edu

Gest Forum 04/25/2019

Gest Forum (Co-Presented by Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (“VLS”)

VLS, 299 N. Spring Mill Road, Room 101,

Villanova, PA 19085 @ 4:30 p.m.

             

“The Church and the Scandal: New Challenges, New Questions” 

presenter:

    Prof. (Ret.) Peter Steinfels ~ Fordham University

                                One CLE Credit

Red Mass 2018

Please join the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia for
the annual celebration of the Red Mass.

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

5:15PM

Old St. Mary's Church

252 South 4th St. (in between 4th & Spruce and 4th & Locust)

Philadelphia, PA 19106.

Reception to follow, Powel House, 244 South 3rd St., Philadelphia, PA, 19106, where the Villanova University Clinical Program will receive the St. Thomas More Award.

$45/person, $25/student. RSVP to Cathy VanArsdale at vanarsdale@blankrome.com. 

2018 Gest Forum Pictures

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THE SAINT THOMAS MORE SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA INVITES YOU TO ATTEND THE 2018
John B. Gest Forum

Francis Graham Lee, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus at Saint Joseph's University.  Dr. Lee is a former chairman of the Political Science Department of Saint Joseph's University, and is the author of numerous articles, and of six books.  He is an expert in the Constitution of the United States, and has a particular expertise in the religion causes of the First Amendment of the Constitution.  Dr. Lee holds an A.B. degree from Boston College, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

1 CLE Substantive Credit Included At No Extra Charge

Thursday, April 5, 2018

12:00 Noon  – 2:00 pm

Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

Justice Roberts Room, 28th Floor

123 South Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19109-1029

Registration: 11:45 am – 12:00 Noon  •  Luncheon: 12:00 Noon – 12:45 pm  •  Lecture: 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm

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Lunch – $55/Person .............  $275/Groups of Six .............

*** One CLE substantive credit included at no extra charge. ***

Please make checks payable to “St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia”

Space is limited. RSVPs strongly encouraged at stmsphila@gmail.com. Checks, which may be delivered on the day of the event and need not be sent in advance, should be made payable to the St. Thomas More Society of Philadelphia,

and may also be mailed in advance to Saint Thomas More Society, P.O. Box 58060, Philadelphia, PA 19102.

The Society can be reached via Christopher Scarpa at 215-564-8106.