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CATFE Meeting on First Day of 2019 ATFE Biennium in Asheville, NC January 30 - February 2

1/16/2019

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Below is the schedule that offers Catholic members to participate. If you cannot attend but wish to weigh in on topics for the CATFE Wednesday Session or the Business Meeting, please email smleanne@stjohnsem.edu with agenda items and/or your desire for the link to participate directly through Zoom. If you need tech help email or call 805-807-5375. We are looking for a place to hold the 2020 CATFE Biennium. Please let us know if you would be interested in hosting this event. There was definite interest among many CATFE schools to have this separate gathering regularly. We are also looking for new leadership so think about whether you would be willing to serve and/or to identify potential candidate who are or are not present.

Tuesday, January 29: Arrive at Crowne Plaza, Asheville/ Casual CATFE dinner
 
Wednesday, January 30:
10-12    CATFE Input Session (Zoom teleconferencing available. Contact smleanne@stjohnsem.edu for link)
12-1      Lunch in meeting room
1-3        CATFE Business Meeting (Zoom teleconferencing available. Contact smleanne@stjohnsem.edu for link)
3-5:30   ATFE New FE Workshop
5:30-6   All about ATFE
6-7        ATFE Reception
7-8:30   ATFE Opening
8:30      Dessert Buffet
 
Thursday, January 31
8:30      Worship
9:15      ATFE Plenary Session
10:30    Table Discussions                12          11          Lunch and ATFE Business Meeting
1:45      Session with Christina Zaker (CTU) on FE as “Field Hospital” or other options
3:15      Session with ATS New Accreditation – most of our schools are also under ATS
5PM       Depart for Tour of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. followed by Catholic Caucus Dinner
              
Here ends CATFE/AFTE though there are two more days of talks, including our own Daniel Rhodes (Loyola, Chicago) on Saturday Morning.

Young Adult American Catholics by Maureen Day
As per her announcement at the 2018 CATFE Conference in Camarillo, Maureen Day from Franciscan School of Theology, CA has finished her book on Young Adult American Catholics. Here is the link:
http://www.paulistpress.com/Products/5393-0/young-adult-american-catholics.aspx
There was quite a bit of interest in this topic and its influence on those we are currently teaching in ministry. Check it out.

Catholic Chaplaincy Question from Michael Skaggs, PhD
Project Manager, Department of Sociology Brandeis University

Im writing on the advice of Fr. David Endres in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, of whom I had originally asked these questions. He suggested CATFE would be in a position to offer some thoughts on the project I’m currently pursuing.

I’m an ND grad currently working with a faculty member at Brandeis University on some projects involving chaplaincy, understood in as broad of terms as possible. We’re pretty familiar with what other denominations are doing but we have zero idea what’s going on in Catholic education as far as preparing people specifically for chaplaincy roles (hospitals, prison, military, etc.), whether lay or clergy. Might you know anything about this / people involved / etc.? We’ve got a huge map showing all the chaplaincy training programs around the country, but there’s a glaring lack of Catholic institutions. It’s my understanding that there is some training in chaplaincy-type work for seminarians, but unless I’m mistaken it’s not usually with the idea that a priest will be assigned immediately to full-time chaplaincy upon ordination. I suppose the summary of all of this is: what is the current state of training for chaplaincy in American Catholicism?

A huge question, to be sure, but I appreciate anything you might be able to offer in response!

Thank you!

Michael Skaggs, PhD
Project Manager, Department of Sociology
Brandeis University
Mailstop 071
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453
Mobile: 812-269-2370
mskaggs@brandeis.edu

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CATFE Biennial at St. John's Seminary, CA - January 25-27, 2018
Twenty-three members of CATFE gathered at St. John's Seminary in 2018. The Keynotes on Current Context in the Church were offered by St. John's Rector, Msgr. Marc V. Trudeau and Dr. Christina Zaker of CTU. Later that day there was a Panel Discussion: Current Contexts for Young Adult Catholics and Discerners including the following guests from the Los Angeles Archdiocese:
  • Sr. Jennifer Zimmerman, SND – USC Catholic Ctr., Campus Minister of Spiritual Life
  • Fr. Jonathan Meyer – Newly Ordained and New Formator at Queen of Angels Center for Seminary Formation
  • Mr. Jason Coito – Coordinator of Young Adult Ministry, Archdiocese of Los Angeles
Dr. Maureen Day from Franciscan School of Theology was a CATFE participant who also weighed in with some of her own research on her soon-to-be-published study on Young Adult American Catholics. 

At the CATFE Business Meeting I we discussed the following, a rich interchange that made us realize how valuable this group is and can be in the future:
  • Who do we want to be as a body? What is the CATFE vision? Goals? (i.e., Ratio Fundamentalis contribution to PPF, Catholic Publishing, etc.)

In the evening of the first day we visited Casa Pacifica, one of the FE Placements for St. John's seminarians. This institute works with highly at-risk children and families: https://casapacifica.org.

​​The second day of the Biennial included the following three discussions: 
  • Evangelization, Spiritual Pastoral Ministry (CPE) and Teaching Parish Program: Rev. Allen Kuss and Sr. Charlotte Berres, CSJ, St. Paul Seminary
  • Supervision and Evaluation Consultation: Kathleen Castillo, Christ the King, NY, facilitator
  • Assessment Consultation: Msgr. Marc Trudeau and Sr. Mary Leanne Hubbard, facilitators
 
At the CATFE Business Meeting II we discussed Membership, Leadership and Finance Update  The conclusion of the conference was a trip to Ventura and a tour and hospitality at San Buenaventura Mission. 
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