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October
9, 2006
VOL.
44, NO. 17Oakland,
CA
National conference
in S.F. to focus
on Catholic response to global poverty
Jeffrey Sachs,
director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of “The
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time,” will deliver
the keynote address at a national conference on global poverty at St.
Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, Oct. 27-28. His Oct. 27 appearance,
via teleconferencing, will be moderated by Father J. Bryan Hehir, a professor
in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
The conference will launch the Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty,
a multi-year advocacy initiative led by Catholic Relief Services and the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The Lane Center for Catholic Studies
and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco is hosting the two-day
event that features an international array of speakers, including Cardinal
Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
A panel of speakers – Sunitha Krishnan, founder of Prajwala, an
anti-human trafficking organization; Peter Kimeu, director of the CRS
Global Poverty Solidarity Partnership of Kenya; and Maria Christine dos
Anjos of Caritas Brasileira – will open the conference.
Later that day, Jesuit Father John Donahue, professor of New Testament
at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, will lecture
on the scriptural call to address poverty.
Sessions on Saturday (Oct. 28) will included presentations by Javier Iguiniz,
economics professor at the Catholic University of Peru,and Charity Musamba
of the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Zambia; and a conversation
with two world business leaders – Charles Geschke, co-founder of
Adobe Systems, and Richard Blum, chair of Blum Capital Partners -- on
the role of private enterprise in the alleviation of poverty.
David O’Brien of the College of the Holy Cross and Margaret O’Brien
Steinfels of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture will explore how
U.S. Catholics can be in solidarity with the world’s poor.
Cost for the two-day event is $100. Program and registration information
is available at www.point7now.org.
The Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic
Healthcare West, the Daughters of Charity and the Seton Institute are
conference co-sponsors.
Father J. Bryan Hehir
Sunitha Krishnan
Jeffrey Sachs
