Thursday, September 13, 2012

Voice of the Faithful to hold conference Friday, Saturday in Boston

The Catholic Church reform movement Voice of the Faithful will hold a 10th-year conference in Boston this weekend.

Speakers will include Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke; John Morgan, chairman of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church Ireland; Boston College professor Thomas Groome; Brother Donald Cozzens, international commentator and lecturer on religious and cultural issues; David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests; executive director; Jamie Manson, columnist for the National Catholic Reporter; and Brother James Connell, an advocate for clergy sexual abuse survivors.

The conference will be held from 3:30 to 9 p.m. Friday and 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday in the fourth floor ballroom of the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, 110 Huntington Ave., Boston.