| WHAT: | Bishop Curry to Lecture: "Religious Liberty, Conscience, and Contraception" |
| WHEN: | Thursday, March 15, 5 to 7 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The Catholic University of America Caldwell Hall Auditorium 620 Michigan Ave. N.E. Washington, D.C. |
| DETAILS: | Bishop Thomas J. Curry, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Catholic Education, will deliver the annual Cardinal Dearden Lecture. He will speak on "Religious Liberty, Conscience, and Contraception." Bishop Curry was born in Ireland and attended All Hallows Seminary in Dublin, where he was ordained in 1967 for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. During his first 27 years of ministry in the archdiocese, he served as an associate pastor, then as a high school teacher, subsequently as the archdiocese's first vicar for clergy, and later as secretariat director for Church Ministerial Services. In 1994, Cardinal Mahony ordained him bishop and episcopal vicar for the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region. He has a bachelor's degree in history and political philosophy from University College in Dublin, a master's degree in history from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and a doctorate in political science from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, Calif. Bishop Curry is the author of The First Freedoms , Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment , and Farewell to Christendom: The Future of Church and State in America . Sponsored by Catholic University's School of Theology and Religious Studies, the annual Cardinal John Dearden Lecture honors the late archbishop of Detroit who was known for his social justice work. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, call 202-319-6524. |
| SPONSOR: | School of Theology and Religious Studies |