VINCENTIAN CHAIR OF SOCIAL JUSTICE CONFERENCE
2003
The Faces And Facets Of 21st Century
Poverty
Saturday, October 18, 2003
Keynotes and Panelists
PATRICK J. GRIFFIN, C.M. is a priest of the Congregation
of the Mission, Eastern Province, professor, and director of Vincentian
seminarians
at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, NY. He has
taught at Mary Immaculate Seminary, PA, St. John’s University
and Niagara University. Father was a scriptwriter for the Paulist Bible
Study Program and served the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops Censor Deputatus. He served in Rome for five years as the International
Treasurer for the Congregation of the Mission. Since 1996, he has served
on the Board of Trustees of St. John’s University. Father holds
a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from The Catholic University of America.
KENNETH R. HIMES, O.F.M., is a Professor of Moral Theology at the Washington
Theological Union. Fr. Himes has a special interest in the area of Catholic
social teaching and the role of the Church in American public life. He
co-authored with his brother Michael Fullness of Faith and recently published
Responses to 101 Questions on Catholic Social Teaching, written to appeal
to parish adult education audiences. He is also the co-editor of a widely
used textbook Introduction to Christian Ethics. Fr. Himes serves as theological
consultant to the Office of Social Development and World Peace at the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and is a past president of the Catholic
Theological Society of America. He was awarded the Ph.D. from Duke University
in religion and public policy.
MICHAEL J. HIMES, an Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College.
A priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, has taught at Cathedral College,
Douglaston, Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, NY and the University
of Notre Dame, IN. His recent publications are (with Kenneth Himes, OFM)
Fullness of Faith: The Public Significance of Theology (Paulist Press,
1993); Associate Editor, The Harper Encyclopedia of Catholicism (Harper/Collins,
1995); Doing the Truth in Love: Conversations about God, Relationships
and Service (Paulist Press, 1995). He holds a Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago.
ROBERT F. PECORELLA is an Associate Professor with the Department of
Government and Politics, a Vincentian Research Fellow at St. John’s
University, and a Professor-in-Residence with the New York State Assembly
Intern Program. Between 1996 and 2002, he served as chair of his department
at St. John’s. Pecorella is the author of Community Power in a
Postreform City and a coauthor of the Politics of Structure. His articles
have appeared in a numerous journals including: Polity, Public Administration
Review, and the Journal of Urban Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania
State, University Park.
ROSEMARY C. SALOMONE is a Professor of Law at St. John’s University
School of Law, a fellow of the Open Society Institute, and a former trustee
of the State University of New York. Prior to joining the St. John’s
faculty, she was an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education. Professor Salomone is the author of Same, Different, Equal:
Rethinking Single-Sex Schooling (2003), Visions of Schooling: Conscience,
Community and Common Education (2000) Equal Education Under Law (1986).
She holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, an Ed.M. from Teachers College,
and a Ph.D. and LL.M. from Columbia University.
SUSAN J. STABILE joined the St. John's School of Law faculty in 1993,
after being associated in New York and Hong Kong with the international
law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, where she spent her
early years practicing corporate and securities law and later specialized
in employee benefits and executive compensation matters. Currently, she
is a Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Labor and Employment and a
Vincentian Research Fellow. She is a member of the editorial board of
the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal and a member of the
Advisory Board of the John Marshall Law School LL.M. Program in Employee
Benefits. She holds a J.D. from New York University.
ROBERT J. VITILLO is a Roman Catholic priest of the diocese of Paterson,
New Jersey. He was appointed Executive Director of the Catholic Campaign
for Human Development at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
in 1997. He has worked with Catholic Charities on both diocesan and national
levels as well as with Caritas Internationalis, the worldwide confederation
of Catholic church-sponsored social service and development organizations,
based in Vatican City. Fr. Vitillo serves as President of the National
Catholic AIDS Network Board of Directors, as Co-chairperson of the Caritas
Internationalis Task Force on HIV/AIDS, as a member of the HIV Strategy
Group of the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance and as a member of the Board
of Directors of National Council for Adoption, Council on Accreditation
of Services to Children and Families, Medicines for Humanity and Global
community Services Foundation. He holds a Master’s Degree in Social
Work from Rutgers University, where he also pursued doctoral studies
in the same field.
PROGRAM
WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION
DIRECTIONS
Planning committee:
The Planning Committee is composed of staff of the Vincentian Center,
Vincentian
Research Fellows and external
specialists.
Staff
of the CenteR: Margaret John Kelly,
D.C., Ph.D. Executive Director, Mary Ann Dantuono, J.D, Associate Director,
Rev. John Freund, C.M., Ph.D., Technology Advisor.
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