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On Nov. 18-21, the College’s Center for Religion,
Ethics and Culture hosted a three-day colloquium, “Renewing
the Church.” One hundred alumni/ae and spouses and
20 student leaders examined the present difficulties faced
by the Catholic Church and discussed possible solutions to
those difficulties. Scholars and church leaders attending
the event included Christopher
M. Bellitto, assistant professor of history, Kean University; Most
Rev. Matthew H. Clark, Bishop of Rochester; Michael
F. Collins, M.D., ’77 clinical professor of medicine,
Tufts University School of Medicine and chair of the Board
of Trustees, College of the Holy Cross; Donald
Cozzens, writer in residence, John Carroll University; Barbara
Anne Cusack, chancellor, Archdiocese of Milwaukee; Rev.
Joseph A. Komonchak, priest of the Archdiocese of New
York and John and Gertrude Hubbard Chair in Religious Studies
at The Catholic University of America; Thomas
M. Landy, associate director of the Center for Religion,
Ethics and Culture, College of the Holy Cross; Dolores
R. Leckey, senior fellow, Woodstock Theological Center; Rev.
Michael C. McFarland, S.J.,
president, College of the Holy Cross; David
O'Brien, Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies,
College of the Holy Cross; Catherine
M. Patten,
R.S.H.M., coordinator, Catholic Common Ground
Initiative at the National Pastoral Life Center; and Bruce
Russett, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations
and Political Science at Yale University.
Read an essay about
the colloquium by attendee Laurence O’Donnell ’57
in this issue of the magazine. >
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