The Religious Sisters of Mercy & Sacred Heart Mercy Health Care Center

are proud to sponsor

The 2013 Conference for Priests, Religious & Laity

The New Evangelization Today:

Helping People to Enter the Porta Fidei, the Door of Faith
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April 23-25, 2013 23-

Keynote Speaker: Most Reverend Anthony Fisher, O.P.

Bishop of Parramatta, Australia
The New Evangelization: Opportunities and Challenges

With conference topics related to the teachings of Vatican II and the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Most Reverend Samuel J. Aquila

Archbishop of Denver, CO
To Stand with the LordA Reflection on Porta Fidei

Additional presenters

Most Reverend Carl F. Mengeling

Bishop Emeritus of Lansing, MI
A Seamless Tapestry of GraceCouncil, Catechism, Year of Faith For the New Evangelization

always open for us, ushering into the life of communion with God and offering entry into his Church. It is possible to cross that threshold when the word of God is proclaimed and the heart allows itself to be shaped by transforming grace. To enter through that door is to set out on a journey that lasts a lifetime.
Pope Benedict XVI, Porta Fidei October 11, 2011

he door of faith is

Dean, College of Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Science, Technology, and the New Evangelization

Peter Kilpatrick, Ph.D. John Schirger, M.D.

Cardiologist, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Gods Providence According to Saint Thomas Aquinas in View of Evolutionary Biology

Lynne Bissonnette-Pitre, M.D., Ph.D.

Private Practice of Psychiatry, Portland, OR Regional Director, Catholic Medical Association
Whats Wrong With My Conscience? Attachment, Moral Development and Parenting

Pediatric Hospitalist/Instructor of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Twitter, Facebook, Mommy blogs and E-medicine: Online opportunities for the New Evangelization

Kathleen Berchelmann, M.D.

Reverend Monsignor Thomas G. Caserta

Adjunct Professor of Theology at St. John's University, NY Pastor, Saint Bernadette Roman Catholic Church, Brooklyn, NY
Entering the Door of Faith on Our Knees: the Importance of Prayer for Observing the Year of Faith

For more information, please write to: shmhcc@sacredheartmercy.com Or call (989) 463-3451 Venue: Our Lady of Grace Educational Center 1965 Michigan Ave, Alma, MI 48801

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