{"id":27193,"date":"2012-09-28T10:22:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T14:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/americas-voice-in-the-worlds-n\/"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:08:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:08:11","slug":"americas-voice-in-the-worlds-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/americas-voice-in-the-worlds-n\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s Voice in the World’s New Evangelization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Holy See\u00a0has appointed 45 persons as Experts and Observers for the forthcoming Thirteenth Ordinary\u00a0General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops<\/b><\/a>, 7 to 28 October on the theme:\u00a0“The new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith<\/b>.”<\/p>\n

While they are not the full members of the Synod of Bishops (they’re not\u00a0bishops) these people do have an essential role in that they will contribute to the\u00a0conversation and will help to frame the outcome. Noteworthy are the number of women\u00a0invited<\/b><\/a>: 10 experts and 19 observers.<\/p>\n

There will be seven US bishops and\u00a0ten other Americans at the Synod<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The is the list of non-bishops from the\u00a0Americas which ought to be noted (more noted here<\/b><\/a>):<\/p>\n

Sr. Sara Butler M.S.B.T., professor, St. Mary of the Lake University, Mundelein, and\u00a0member of the International Theological Commission<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Sr. Paula Jean Miller\u00a0F.S.E., professor, Department of Theology of the University of St. Thomas, Houston<\/p>\n

Sr. Mary Lou Wirtz F.C.J.M., president\u00a0of the International Union of Superiors General<\/p>\n

Marylee J. Meehan, president of the International Catholic Committee of Nurses and Medico-Social Assistants<\/p>\n

Fr. Jeremy Driscoll O.S.B.,\u00a0professor, Theological Faculty of Rome’s St. Anselm Pontifical Athenaeum,\u00a0and professor, Mount Angel Seminary, St. Benedict, OR<\/p>\n

Edward\u00a0Peters, professor, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit<\/p>\n

Ralph Martin, director of graduate\u00a0theological programs in the new evangelization at the Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit<\/p>\n

Carl Albert Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus<\/p>\n

Curtis\u00a0A. Martin, founder and president of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students – Focus Missionaries<\/p>\n

Peter Murphy, executive director of the Secretariat fo Evangelization\u00a0and Catechesis, US Conference of Catholic Bishops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Holy See\u00a0has appointed 45 persons as Experts and Observers for the forthcoming Thirteenth Ordinary\u00a0General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 7 to 28 October on the theme:\u00a0“The new evangelization for the transmission of the Christian faith.” While they are not the full members of the Synod of Bishops (they’re not\u00a0bishops) these people do have … Continue reading America’s Voice in the World’s New Evangelization<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[1929,2407,2393,1744],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29953,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27193\/revisions\/29953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}