Cardinal McCarrick and Archbishop Migliore to be at Fairfield University for launching of The Center for Faith and Public Life

Cardinal McCarrick and Archbishop Migliore to be at Fairfield University for launching of The Center for Faith and Public Life

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nunzio and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, will lead the dignitaries at the launching of The Center for Faith and Public Life at Fairfield University on Monday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. The event takes place in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts and the public is welcome. A reception follows the ceremony.

Image: Rick Ryscavage

Rev. Richard Ryscavage, S.J., who will direct the Center, will give the address and Cardinal McCarrick and Archbishop Migliore will also offer remarks, along with Richard Boucher, U.S. Department of Education liaison to the White House Office for Faith Based and Community Initiatives.

A Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service USA and National Secretary for Jesuit Social and International Ministries, Fr. Ryscavage said, "The Center will seek to create opportunities for students, faculty, policymakers and religious leaders to reflect on the intersection of Faith and Public Life. In the Catholic Jesuit Tradition it will respect diversity while searching for the common good of society."

The Center will be seeking partnerships with local community organizations, individuals, and local churches to identify and research primary local needs and issues of communal concern. Community partners will have access to University facilitated training and support designed to help them take a more active role in public policy dialogues. Initial objectives of the Center will be to help define social solutions, create stronger bonds, increase trust, and improve the quality of civic discourse overall.

Image: McCarrick Cardinal McCarrick was named Auxiliary Bishop of New York in 1977, serving as Vicar of East Manhattan and the Harlems. Pope John Paul II appointed him to be the first Bishop of Metuchen in New Jersey when the diocese was established in 1981. From 1986 until his appointment to the Archdiocese of Washington, he served as the fourth Archbishop of Newark.

A founding member of the Papal Foundation, he also is a member of the Board of Catholic Relief Services and serves on the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant Peoples and the Pontifical Commission for Latin America.

In January 1998, then-Archbishop McCarrick was one of three American clerics invited to visit China and discuss religious freedoms in that country.

Cardinal McCarrick earned a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in History from St. Joseph's Seminary, in Yonkers, N.Y.; and a second Master's Degree in Social Sciences and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Image: Migliore A native of Cuneo, Italy, Archbishop Celestino Migliore earned a Master's Degree in theology at the Center of Theological Studies in Fossano and a Doctorate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Lateran University. In 1980, after graduating from the Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Diplomacy, he joined the Holy See's diplomatic service.

His first assignment was to Angola, where from 1980 to 1984 he served as attaché and second secretary to the Apostolic Delegation. From there he was transferred to the Apostolic Nunciature in the United States. Since 1988 he has served in Egypt, Warsaw, Poland, and Strasbourg, France. From 1995 to 2002 he was Under-Secretary of the Section for Relations with States of the Secretariat of State at the Vatican and was in charge of fostering relations with several Asian countries that had no formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See.

He has also been the Holy See's representative to numerous conferences held in various European capitals on issues related to the World Trade Organization, the Economic Commission for Europe, the European Union, and the Middle East. In 2001 Archbishop Migliore led the Delegation of the Holy See to the United Nations Conference on Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, held in New York.

Bishop William E. Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport, will deliver the Invocation and British Robinson, National Director of Social and International Ministries for the Jesuit Conference will offer the Benediction.

The Fairfield University Glee Club will perform as part of the ceremony.

Posted On: 10-20-2005 10:10 AM

Volume: 38 Number: 82