Resources

Organizations

Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church. POB 912 Delran, NJ 08075 609-461-8960. http://astro.temple.edu/~arcc/ (Maintains referral service of canon lawyers to help with due process issues).

Canon Law Society of America. 431 Caldwell Hall Catholic University Washington, DC 20064 (202)269-3491 http://www.clsa.org (Great web site resources for current pastoral ministry issues).

Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. Georgetown University Washington, D.C 20057-1033 202-687-8080 (Resource for recent research in pastoral ministry and many parish based issues).

Leadership Conference of Women Religious 8808 Cameron Street, Silver Spring, MD 20901 (301) 588-4955. (Originators of the Benchmarks project. Advocates for women in the Church).

National Association of Church Personnel Administrators. 100 East Eighth Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 (513)421-3134 http://www.nacpa.org (Has many resources for conflict resolution and determining a just wage).

National Association of Lay Ministry 5420 S. Cornell Ave. Chicago, Il 60615 (773)-241-6050. (Advocates for professionalism and on behalf of many pastoral ministry issues in the Church).

National Center for Pastoral Leadership 2661 Riva Road Suite 1042 Annapolis, MD 21401 410-266-6462. Provides leadership conferences on futuring, and continuing education conferences on the east coast).

National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women and Youth. 3211 4th Street, N E. Washington, D.C. 20017-1194. 202-541-3000. http://www.nccbuscc.org. (Web site is good resource for current issues. Resources for establishing women¼s commissions in your diocese).

National Federation of Priests¼ Councils 1337 West Ohio Street Chicago, Illinois 60622 312-226-3334. (In 1991, called for study of opening ordination to all the baptized as a way to deal with the priest shortage. Pastorally grounded group that isn¼t afraid to speak out in behalf of People of God).

National Pastoral Life Center Catholic Common Ground Initiative 18 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012 (212)-431-7825. (Tremendous resource for study of lay ministry in the Catholic Church and many other projects).

NCCB Committee on Women in Society and in the Church:

Auxiliary Bishop John C. Dunne (Chairman), Rockville Centre, NY
Bishop George V. Murry, SJ, Vicariate VI Administrative Office
Bishop F. Joseph Gossman, Raleigh, NC
Bishop Richard C. Hanifen, Colorado Springs, CO
Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, Albany, NY
Auxiliary Bishop William C. Newman, Baltimore, MD
Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, Los Angeles,

Advisors to the committee:
Sr. Lynn Jarrell, president, Canon Law Society of America
Mary Ann Dantuono, Rockville Centre, NY
Kathleen Hendircks, Colorado Springs, CO
Joan Neal, Archdiocese of Chicago, IL
Joan Finucci, Archdiocese of Baltimore

Lay Ministry Subcommittee
(The NCCB Lay Ministry Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Laity Committee. It was established in March 1994.)

Bishop Phillip F. Straling, Reno, NV, Chairman
Bishop Tod D. Brown, Boise, ID
Bishop John C. Dunne, Auxiliary, Rockville Centre, NY
Bishop Bernard J. Harrington, Auxiliary, Detroit, MI
Bishop James R. Hoffman, Toledo, Ohio
Bishop Edward U. Kmiec, Nashville, Tennessee,
Bishop Armando X. Ochoa, El Paso, Texas
Bishop Emil A. Wcela, Auxiliary, Rockville Centre
Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Auxiliary, Chicago.

Project advisors:
Dr. Zoila Diaz, Dean, St. John Vianney College Seminary, FL
Dr. Zeni Fox, Assistant Professor and Director of Lay Ministry at Immaculate Conception Seminary, NJ
Msgr. Philip Murnion, Director of the National Pastoral Life Center, NY.