| 12.0 |
CAC
and Call to Action |
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| 12.1 |
1998
CTA “Small Faith Communities and Church Renewal Organizations”
Directory: The Albuquerque Center for Action and Contemplation is listed
as a Call to Action affiliate. (The
New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, which Rohr founded before coming to
New Mexico, is also a Call to Action affiliate.) |
CAC
has been a Call to Action affiliate. |
| 12.2 |
February
1996 CTA publication ChurchWatch: Rohr was a speaker at the 1996 Call to
Action Mile Hi Conversations in Colorado |
Fr.
Rohr has been a Call to Action speaker |
| 12.3 |
CAC’s
Co-Director Shari Sommers represented the Center at the Call to
Action “Colloquium on Social
Justice, Spiritual Leadership and Church Reform”
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a.
December
1997/January 1998: Radical Grace,
CAC “Center Update.” |
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b. Nov-Dec
2000 Radical Grace, “Jesus and the Women Disciples” was written by
Christine Schenk, CSJ, Director
of Call to Action’s FutureChurch.
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c.
July-Sept.
2001 Radical Grace,
“Who Me Tired?” written by Christine Schenk, CSJ, Director of
CTA’s FutureChurch.
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| 12.4 |
CAC Board
member Fr. Jack Clark Robinson promoted Call to Action:
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March
1997, University of New Mexico’s Catholic Aquinas-Newman Center forums,
“The Catholic Church: What Changes?
What Is Constant?” |
These
talks pushed the Call to Action “We Are Church” Referendum, and gave a
preliminary talk about Call to Action’s history and goals.
Free
literature was available that argued for women’s ordination and for a
lifting of the mandatory discipline of priestly celibacy |
| 12.5 |
Call
to Action Common Ground Project |
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December
31, 1997 - January 2, 1998:
Fr. Richard Rohr, held CAC’s 10th Anniversary retreat at the
Archdiocesan Center’s retreat house on Call to Action’s Common Ground
Project.
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| 12.6 |
CAC
hosts Call to Action speakers: |
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a.
February-March
1996: Radical Grace
advertisement for Rosemary Radford Ruether, who conducted the workshop,
“Women: Power, Powerlessness and Empowerment,” at the Center in the
winter of 1996.
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Speakers
listed with the Call to Action Speakers and Artists Referral Service
“are supportive of our Call for Reform issues.”
These issues include:
1.
“Democratic” (therefore,
politicized) selection of priests and bishops.
2.
Acceptance of women into the
ministerial priesthood.
3.
Voluntary priestly celibacy.
4.
Acceptance of homosexuality
– including openly homosexual priests and homosexual unions.
5.
Acceptance of birth control
and abortion.
6.
Acceptance of dissenting
positions from the Church’s doctrinal and moral articulations.
Promotion
of leftist political ambitions.
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b.
December
31, 1997-January 2, 1998: CAC Ten Year Anniversary, New Year Retreat by
Fr. Rohr, focusing on the Common Ground Project being promoted by Call to
Action affiliates around the country.
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c.
PMD
Flier for October 24-25, 1997 CAC program with Megan McKenna.
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d..
April-May
1997 Radical Grace ad for Paula
Gonzalez retreat, July 25-27, 1997.
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e.
July
3-5, 2001: Edwina Gateley & Megan McKenna – advertisement in
November-December 2000 Radical Grace.
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f.
June
2001, LPC Pepper, “Call to Action Speakers at Center for Action and
Contemplation”
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g.
Flier
for Sr. Jose Hobday presentation at Ascension parish, January 18, 2003.
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h.
Christine Schenk’s Radical
Grace articles. Nov-Dec
2000 Radical Grace, “Jesus and the Women Disciples” was written by
Christine Schenk, CSJ, Director
of Call to Action’s FutureChurch. And: July-Sept.
2001 Radical Grace, “Who Me Tired?” written by Christine Schenk, CSJ,
Director of CTA’s FutureChurch.
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i. CAC
flier announcing its sponsorship of a talk by Fr. John Dear at Holy Family
parish on June 10, 2003. Fr. Dear has spoken at the 2001 and 2002
National Call to Action conferences and at a 2001 regional conference in
Pittsburgh, PA.
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