VOTF Lecture

 at USF

Plan To Attend: October 26th, 2008 at 2 PM

Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus

Professor Thomas Sheehan
From the Department of Religious Studies-Stanford University
and Author of the “The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity”

Meier Hall at Fromm Hall

On the campuis of the University of San Francisco

Fromm Hall is located directly behind St. Ignatius Church
on Parker St. near Golden Gate

Free Admission. Suggested donation: $20 at the door
               Pre-Registration: $16 by using PayPal

For further information contact John Van Hagen         Directions to Fromm Hall

October 7, 2008

USF 

Catholics From 4 Dioceses Gather to participate at

The 2nd annual Northern California Lay Convocation

Approximately 100 Catholics, active in lay ministries in parishes met on the campus of the University of San Francisco to focus on addressing the challenges identified at last years NorCal lay convocation.This year, the group mixed theory with practice and focused in on three of the issues identified as problem areas in some of our local parishes.

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July 20, 2008

San Francisco

Thunder From Down Under!

BISHOP GEOFFREY ROBINSON (Retired Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, Australia)speaks to standing room only crowd at the University of San Francisco

   Sponsored by Northern California VOTF and graciously hosted by the University of San Francisco,, Bishop Robinson gave the final talk of his U.S. tour before returning to his home diocese in Sydney.        Bishop Robinson’s explosive talk touched upon the root causes of the abuse crisis which so rocked the Catholic Church and issues a clarion call for structural change.    Watch the Video

July 13, 2008

Survival of the Spirit - July 2008
A talk given on July 13th at the Chicago 2008 SNAP Convention
Thomas P. Doyle, O.P, J.C.D. click here.

June 20, 2008

Campaign For Accountability

We now have interim results from the three Diocesan Surveys VOTF affiliates conducted for the Accountability Campaigns. The surveys assessed the extent to which dioceses employ Best Practices in three areas: Child Protection and Survivor Support; Financial Accountability; and Church Governance. You can see the results of those surveys as of mid-October, 2007, by clicking here.