St. Thomas More Society of Wisconsin

For the information and interest of the membeship, we wish to breifly mention the upcoming Midwest Regional Bioethics Conference, to be held on May 1, 2010 at the St. Francis Seminary, in St. Francis, WI.

The program is organized around the theme of the "Moral Limits of Authority," and is sponsored by the Milwaukee Guild of the Catholic Medical Association, the Catholic Physicians' Guild of Chicago, the Nazareth Project of the John Paul II Center of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Hektoen Institute.  The program has been approved for 4.5 CLE credits total, including 1.0 EPR credit.  The registration form, and conference schedule with more speaker and topic information is available for download.

Our breakfast speaker this month is Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell of Trinity Academy, who will speak on the canonization process for an American priest, John Hardon, S.J.  Dr. Mitchell is the Notary and Expert for the Cause.  See http://www.hardonsj.org.

As usual, the "First Friday" Mass will begin at 7:30 A.M. in the Chapel of the Holy Family located on the 2nd floor of the Marquette Memorial Union (15th and Wells). The meeting and discussion follows after mass from 8:00-9:00 A.M. over a continental breakfast (suggested donation $4.00). There is no need to RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!

We are please to annouce that our speaker for the February 5, 2010 First Friday gathering will be Father Tom Anderson, S.J., the new chaplain at the Marquette University Law School. This is Fr. Anderson’s first year in such role. He will comment generally on his role and inquire of members in attendance their beliefs as to the role of such a chaplain, including any observations, experiences or thoughts they may have in that regard.  We look forward to learing more about Fr. Anderson and to hearing both his comments and anecdotes, and those of the attendees.

As usual, the "First Friday" Mass will begin at 7:30 A.M. in the Chapel of the Holy Family located on the 2nd floor of the Marquette Memorial Union (15th and Wells). The meeting and discussion follows after mass from 8:00-9:00 A.M. over a continental breakfast (suggested donation $4.00).   There is no need to RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there!

Note: that attendees are welcome to participate in the Mass, or the discussion, or both.

The December 2009 First Friday gathering featured the Society's President-elect, Bruce Arnold.  Bruce is Trustee of "Faith in Our Future Trust".  Bruce will speak about this Trust, which was created to receive the gifts made in the historic $105 million campaign to strengthen Catholic education and faith formation in Southeast Wisconsin. For more information, see the Faith in Our Future website.