8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Reflection
Margaret John Kelly, D.C., Ph.D., Executive Director, Vincentian
Center for Church and Society
9:15 a.m.
“The Just and Moral Society”
An examination of the philosophical, theological, ethical and legal
concepts that frame the foundations as well as the need for
reflection on a Just and Moral Society. Father Coughlin will also
suggest some basic criteria for evaluating a Just and Moral Society
within our global society.
John J. Coughlin, O.F.M., J.D., J.C.D., Professor of Law,
University of Notre Dame Law School
Sponsor: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Burke
10:15 a.m.
Current efforts toward building a just society and identification
of forces which advance and inhibit just structures and systems for
the vulnerable.
Panelists:
Hon. Oscar de Rojas, Director, UN Financing for Development,
“Achieving the Millennium Development Goals”
Margaret Hanson, LCSW, BCD, AIC/International Association of
Charities, Ladies of Charity USA, “Against Poverty Acting Together:
Vincentian Work for Systemic Change”
Ellen P. Finn O.P., LCSW, Associate Executive Director of
Catholic Charities, Diocese of Brooklyn, “CCUSA Campaign to Reduce
Poverty in America”
Veronica M. White, J.D., Executive Director, New York City
Center for Economic Opportunity, “Reducing Poverty in New York
City”
Moderator: Michael A. Simons, J.D., Professor of Law, St. John’s
University School of Law
Discussion with Fr. Coughlin, Panelists and Conference
Participants
11:45 a.m.
Lunch, Networking and Exhibits
1 – 1:50 p.m.
Concurrent Workshops: Constructive, Developmental Responses to
Local and Global Issues – Highlighting Practices that Relate
Systemic Change and Transformative Service
2 – 2:50 p.m.
Workshops repeated
3 p.m.
“From 21st Century Slavery to Freedom: Call to Global
Solidarity”
Creating the Just and Moral Society will require that each of us
share the responsibility and participate actively as global
citizens. Practicing the virtue of solidarity will unite hearts,
minds and hands to build a world where human dignity, truth and
freedom, justice and peace will prevail.
Simon Aban Deng, Refugee, former child slave, founder of the “Sudan
Freedom Walk” and consultant to the United Nations Human
Rights Council
Moderator: Charles M.A. Clark, Ph.D., Associate Dean and
Professor of Economics, The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St.
John’s University
Sponsor: The Northeast Province of the Daughters of Charity,
Albany, NY
3:55 p.m.
Closing Remarks
Mary Ann Dantuono, J.D., Associate Director, Vincentian Center for
Church and Society, St. John’s University
4:15 p.m.
Eucharistic Liturgy
Homilist: Rev. Thomas F. McKenna, C.M., Provincial Superior,
Congregation of the Mission, Eastern Province, Philadelphia, PA