The Faces And Facets Of 21^st Century Poverty

Saturday, October 18, 2003

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Program:

8:30 a.m. Registration and Contental Breakfast

9 a.m. Welcome, opening reflection and conference statement.

Margaret John Kelly, D.C., Ph.D. Executive Director, Vincentian Center for Church and Society, St. John's University

9:15 a.m. Real Life Focus on Poverty in Our Country and the World: Facts and Attitudes.

This session will present the face and story of the poor nationally and globally. Recent research offers a view of poverty from the perspective of people who are poor and examines attitudes toward issues of poverty and toward people who lack the basic human rights to food, clothing, jobs, health care, education and shelter.

Rev. Robert J. Vitillo, ACSW, is the Executive Director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C.

9:50 a.m. Structuring a Civil, Compassionate and Just Society.

A panel examines structural societal changes necessary to alleviate poverty. Panelists will respond to the first presentation and invoke the vision of Pacem in Terris, to examine how the notions of interdependence, socialization, solidarity and subsidiarity enable governments, corporations, and educational systems to assist the poor through policy and practice.

Robert F. Pecorella, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Government and Politics, St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. John's University

Rosemary C. Salomone, Ph.D., LL.M. Professor of Law, School of Law, St. John's University

Susan J. Stabile, Professor of Law, School of Law, St. John's University

10:45 a.m. Break

11:00-11:45 a.m. Questions and Answers with Fr. Vitillo and panelists.

Noon-1:15 p.m. Lunch, Networking and Exhibits

*1:15-3:15 p.m. Workshops

3:30 p.m. A DIALOGUE: "Imagine Peace And Social Justice In The 21^st Century"

Using the theological constructs of Pacem in Terris, the two theologians in this closing session, siblings, as are peace and social justice, will create an agenda for individuals and for faith-based institutions. What do we need to do, and how do we need to change to build persons, families, and communities so that "justice and peace" might kiss?

Rev. Kenneth R. Himes, OFM, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC.

Rev. Michael J. Himes, Ph.D., Professor of Theology, Boston College, Boston, MA.

4: 45 p.m. Closing Remarks

5 p.m. Liturgy / Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel

Presider/Homilist: Rev. Patrick J. Griffin, C.M.,., Seminary of the Immaculate Conception, Huntington, NY and member of the Board of Trustees, St. John's University.

Workshops

The goal of the workshops is to showcase research and practical responses to alleviate poverty. They provide an opportunity for sharing and discussing responses to poverty that ameliorate the conditions of poverty or are working to shape or improve public policy or public attitudes. The structure of the two-hour sessions will vary.

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