Dan Sulmasy gave a presentation to the U.S. President’s Council on Bioethics on the concept of human dignity as it is applied to bioethics on Feb. 2 in Washington, D.C. The Council is considering a major report on this subject, which is foundational and applicable to a wide variety of pressing topics such as cloning, enhancement therapies, and the just distribution …
May Bonfils-Stanton Fund
All recipients of grants from the Mae Bonils-Stanton Fund are reminded that progress reports are due no later than Feb. 28. New grant applications are due no later than this April 1 for the fiscal year 2007. Forms for all of these are to be found on the provincial Web site www.hnp.org under the heading “Our Work,” where you can …
Days of Reflection and Renewal 2006: “The Grace of Our Origins”
A reminder that all friars are asked to register for one of the Days of Reflection and Renewal – “The Grace of Our Origins” program scheduled at: St. Anthony Friary, Butler, N.J. March 6-9, 2006 St. Francis Springs Prayer Center, Stoneville, N.C. March 27-30, 2006 St. Edmunds – Enders Island, Mystic, Conn. April 3-6, 2006 Holy Name College, Silver Spring, …
Visioning and Planning Committee
The newly formed Visioning and Planning Committee met a third time for an all day brainstorming meeting on Jan. 27 at Holy Name Church, 96th Street. Sister Suzanne Donovan, SC, Director of Human Resources for the Wilmington Diocese, served as the facilitator for the day. Topics all-day included clarifying the group’s mandate, designing a planning process, and various ways to …
Ministerial Development Directorate Meeting
On Jan. 31, the Ministerial Development Directorate met at the Provincial Offices for its third meeting of the year. As you may know, members of our directorate had investigated the possibility of the Province’s taking over the pastoral care of the ministry connected with Clemson University. However, during our meeting John O’Connorannounced that he had just been talking with the Director …
JPIC Congress in Brazil
UBERLANDIA, Brazil – The Second International JPIC Congress opened here on Jan. 30 as part of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the Order. A Congress is when friars from each entity of the Order are invited to attend a meeting to reflect on a particular issue. For this Congress, almost 100 friars have gathered from over 36 different …
Provincial Schedule
Provincial schedule for the next few weeks: Feb. 8-12 at the Washington Theological Union for meetings with the Vatican Seminary Visitation team and a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the WTU. Feb. 13-18, Los Angeles, California for a meeting of the executive committee of the English-speaking Conference of Provincials. Feb. 19-21, St Petersburg, Fla., for the 75th anniversary …
Some Reflections on My Visit to Rome
I arrived on Sunday, Jan. 14, and was greeted at the airport by the Guardian of the Curia Friary, Rick Martignetti, from the Immaculate Conception Province. Our meetings began on Monday morning at 7a.m. with morning prayer and the celebration of Mass. Most days we went from 7a.m. to 7p.m. We had evening prayer followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. …
Province Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.
WILMINGTON, Del. — St. Joseph Church hosted the Provincial celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. this year on Jan. 22 here. The annual observance was held at the parish’s 11 a.m. Mass. Dominic Monti presided and gave the homily. “The congregation murmured ‘Yes’ and ‘Amen’ throughout Dominic’s homily. Dominic recalled the joy that Martin Luther King felt in his last days, …
Highlights of the January Provincial Council Meeting
The Provincial Council met Jan. 9-11 in Margate, N.J. The Council devoted Jan. 9 to a discussion of some current issues in the Order, the wider Church, and U.S. society. Our discussion stemmed from background reading that each member of the Council did over Christmas vacation. On Jan. 10, the Council turned to business items, both routine and some special …
Installation Mass at Sacred Heart in Tampa
TAMPA, Fla. – Even though the friars have been at Sacred Heart Church here since last July, this Jan. 8 was the day when Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg was able to come to install Andrew Reitz as the first Franciscan pastor of Sacred Heart Church and officially welcome the friars here. John O’Connor made his first official visit to …
Benevolence and Bonfils Trusts
The friars are reminded that the deadline for submitting grant applications for the Benevolence and Bonfils Trusts is April 1. If you wish to submit a grant appliation, please review the guidelines that are found on the Provincial Web site under the heading “Our Work,” and submit applications on the proper forms.