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National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church
The NBSCCCI will host its first National Conference beginning with Mass at 5pm in St Mary’s Church Athlone. This will be followed by a keynote address at 6pm in the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone and then by dinner.
The Conference will resume at 9.15 in the Sheraton Hotel on Saturday 28th February and conclude at 5pm.
Speakers on 28th include:
Monsignor Steve Rosetti,
Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti is a priest of the Diocese of Syracuse. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1973 and spent six years in the Air Force. After ordination, he served in two parishes before becoming Director of Education of the House of Affirmation. For 17 years, he served as the Executive Vice President and then the President and Chief Executive Officer of Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, a residential treatment program for clergy and religious men and women. …
Marie Collins was born in Dublin, Ireland – is married with one son. A member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, she has campaigned for the protection of children and justice for survivors of clerical sexual abuse since bringing the priest who abuser her to justice in 1997. A founder member of the Irish depression support group, “Aware,” also a founding director of survivor support group One in Four (Ireland). …
Fr. Bob Oliver is a native of Bay Shore, N.Y. on Long Island, Bob attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1982. He earned advanced degrees in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome before he became a priest in 2000. Until 2010 he was a professor of theology and canon law at the archdiocese’s main training ground for priests, St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. Until his appointment to the CDF as Promoter for Justice in 2012, he served as a visiting professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America in Washington.
Dr Anne-Marie Nolan, is currently engaged in the development and delivery of online learning at the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin, and is lead researcher for a new biography of former Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid. She is also a part-time lecturer in social science and the humanities at the University of Maynooth.
To book your place follow this link;
http://www.safeguarding.ie/?p=2560
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