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The first three paragraphs from an article from The California Catholic Daily; (emphasis mine)
**“The possibilities of a post-Vatican II Church” **
*Speakers for upcoming Northern California Lay Convocation not exactly models of orthodoxy *
For the second consecutive year, Catholics in Northern California will gather at the University of San Francisco to discuss how to increase lay involvement in the Church. The Northern California Lay Convocation on Sept. 6 will focus on three priorities identified by last year’s convocation – **how to form pastoral councils, giving effective homilies, and finding a place for women’s voices in the liturgy. **
Organizers of the convocation – “Bringing Voice to Faith” – expect 400 attendees, said the Aug. 4 Catholic Voice, the newspaper of the Oakland diocese. The convocation will feature two speakers: Mark F. Fischer, a faculty member at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo and an expert on pastoral councils, and Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, a member of the progressive-leaning Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame, and a “feminist theologian.”
Sister Eloise also addressed last year’s convocation. In her talk she noted that “some of the hotly debated issues” she had heard “involve substantive unresolved questions of Church life – women’s incorporation in ministry and decision making, **the survival of the priesthood and the rule of celibacy, the Church’s teaching on human sexuality, laity having a voice in the selection of local bishops… protecting freedom of speech… promotion of a collegial and collaborative leadership style between hierarchy and laity with genuine consultation with laity” on **a variety of issues.
**“The possibilities of a post-Vatican II Church” **
*Speakers for upcoming Northern California Lay Convocation not exactly models of orthodoxy *
For the second consecutive year, Catholics in Northern California will gather at the University of San Francisco to discuss how to increase lay involvement in the Church. The Northern California Lay Convocation on Sept. 6 will focus on three priorities identified by last year’s convocation – **how to form pastoral councils, giving effective homilies, and finding a place for women’s voices in the liturgy. **
Organizers of the convocation – “Bringing Voice to Faith” – expect 400 attendees, said the Aug. 4 Catholic Voice, the newspaper of the Oakland diocese. The convocation will feature two speakers: Mark F. Fischer, a faculty member at St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo and an expert on pastoral councils, and Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, a member of the progressive-leaning Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame, and a “feminist theologian.”
Sister Eloise also addressed last year’s convocation. In her talk she noted that “some of the hotly debated issues” she had heard “involve substantive unresolved questions of Church life – women’s incorporation in ministry and decision making, **the survival of the priesthood and the rule of celibacy, the Church’s teaching on human sexuality, laity having a voice in the selection of local bishops… protecting freedom of speech… promotion of a collegial and collaborative leadership style between hierarchy and laity with genuine consultation with laity” on **a variety of issues.
, will address “Offering the Homiletic Voice of the Layman and Laywoman.” But, Rob Grant, convocation spokesman and member of the steering committee, told the Catholic Voice the convocation is not calling for women to give homilies but, well that’s good] said the Voice, “to point out opportunities in the liturgy where canon law allows women to speak.”
