Leadership Institute Program - Track I

Adolescent Catechesis: The Pain and the Promise

The territory has changed and we need a new map! Perhaps the most challenging aspect of catechetical ministry is fostering the faith maturing process in young people. This workshop will explore the current situation - and the preferred reality of adolescent catechesis, identify basic principles, and describe practical approaches. This session will also propose critical dimensions of a new catechetical map.

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Presenter

Robert McCarty, DMin

Bob McCarty is the Executive Director for the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, which provides networking, resources, and leadership for the development of youth ministry within the Catholic Church. He has been in professional youth ministry since 1973, serving in diocesan, parish, school, and community programs. Bob offers workshops and training programs in ministry skills and issues internationally. His recent books are Thriving in Youth Ministry and The Vision of Catholic Youth Ministry: Fundamentals, Theory and Practicethrough Saint Mary's Press and his newest book is Be A Champion for Youth: Standing With, By and For Young People, co-authored with his wife, Maggie.

Bob is also a volunteer in his parish youth ministry and catechetical program at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Fulton, MD. Bob has an MA in Religious Education from LaSalle University and a D.Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Indiana. His hobbies include rock climbing, cycling, and now, grandparenting!

Diocesan Level Strategic Planning: An Opportunity to Discover Insurmountable Opportunities

Strategic planning is one of the most important tools by which diocesan leaders carry out their responsibilities to anticipate problems and opportunities, and to set a course that takes into account complicated and ever-changing internal and external conditions.  Properly conducted, strategic planning is a simple, effective and powerful process that allows diocesan leaders to apply the organization's best thinking on how to cope with challenges and capitalize on opportunities.

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Presenter

Regina Haney, EdD

Regina is the executive director of the Department of Boards and Councils, a department of the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). Regina has also served as assistant executive director of the Department of Chief Administrators of Catholic Education (CACE), NCEA, from 1997 to 2001. During the 1991-92 and 1996-97 school years, Regina served as acting director of CACE. Prior to joining NCEA in 1990, Regina served for nine years as the superintendent of schools for the Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Regina has a number of publications including two 2009 co-authored titles: Haney, R., O'Brien, J., & Sheehan, L. A Primer on Educational Governance in the Catholic Church (2nd ed.), and another by her and O'Keefe, J. (Eds.) Design for Success I: New Configurations for Catholic Schools.

Her education includes a BA, a MEd, Reading Specialist, and an EdD from St. Mary's University of Minnesota.

Providing Catechetical Leadership Today Based on Key Ecclesial Catechetical Documents

Diocesan Catechetical Leaders in Offices of Catholic Education and Catechesis face many challenges in service to the Church's mission of evangelization. To help them address these challenges, this session will propose priorities and practical strategies for administrative leadership based on key ecclesial documents.

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Presenters

Marie A. Powell, MA

Marie A. Powell became the Executive Director of the Office of Catholic Education at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on July 1, 2007.  In the reorganized USCCB structure, this office provides support to the bishops of the United States in the areas of elementary, secondary and higher education.  Prior to this appointment, she served for five years as Assistant Secretary for Parental Advocacy in the USCCB Department of Education.  In this position she worked primarily with Catholic school parent groups and administrators on legislative issues that affect students, parents, and educators involved with Catholic schools. 

Mrs. Powell's past experience with Catholic schools includes the roles of parent, teacher, administrator and board member.  She served on the Commission on Christian Education in the Diocese of Richmond and chaired the Diocesan School Board in the Diocese of Arlington. Also in the Arlington Diocese, she was Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Government and Community Relations for four years and, subsequently, Superintendent of Schools for nine years.  She has taught in both Catholic elementary and secondary schools and served for six years as Academic Dean of a large diocesan high school with many programs for students with special needs.  She is the author of "Catholic High Schools:  Can Inclusion Work Without Significant Publicly-Funded Resources?" published in the September 2004 issue of Catholic Education: a Journal of Inquiry and Practice.

Mrs. Powell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska and a Master of Arts degree from Georgetown University.

 

Michael E. Steier, DMin.

Michael Steier currently serves as Associate Director of the Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  He has served at the USCCB since December 2003.  Prior to that, he served from 1975-1995 as Parish Director of Religious Education in 4 mid-western parishes, and then as Diocesan Director of Religious Education (1995-2000) and as Secretary for Evangelization and Catechetical Formation (2000-2003) in Camden, NJ.  From 1998-2003, Michael developed and coordinated the Camden Diocesan Lay Ministry Formation Program which was offered in collaboration with Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, Seton Hall University.  He taught for three years in that program as well.

From 1996-2002, Dr. Steier served as Chariman of the Diocesan Directors of Religious Education/Catechesis (Province of Newark) and concurrently as Province Representative on the Representative Council, National Conference for Catechetical Leadership (NCCL). Since 2003, he has served as staff to the Bishops Committee on Catechesis.  He also serves as an ex officio member on the NCCL Board of Directors.

Dr. Steier's academic background includes graduate studies at the Angelicum, Rome, Italy, a Master of Arts in Theology degree and a Master of Divinity degree from St. John Provincial Seminary, Plymouth, Michigan, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, MD.

Leadership for the Third Millennium

This capstone talk is designed to wrap up the entire Leadership Institute series of 11 presentations. Bishop Malone will affirm and challenge participants to answer the call to dedicated service in the Church as diocesan administrators. He will issue a dual challenge to sustained enthusiasm for the role entrusted to each new or veteran diocesan administrator and to commitment to growth and ongoing development in that role of service. The bishop will provide some glimpses of the kind of challenges that may lie ahead and the spiritual and material resources available to address those challenges.

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Most Rev. Richard J. Malone, ThD, Bishop of Portland, Chairman of the Bishops Committee on Evangelization & Catechesis

Bishop Richard Joseph Malone is the 11th Bishop of Portland. He was installed as Bishop of Portland on March 31, 2004 after serving as auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston, South Region.

Bishop Richard Joseph Malone was born in Salem, MA on March 19th, 1946 and was raised in Hamilton and Beverly, MA. He graduated in 1964 from St. John's Prep, Danvers and began his seminary college years at Cardinal O'Connell Seminary in Jamaica Plain. He graduated from St. John Seminary, Boston with a B.A. in Philosophy, a Bachelors degree in Divinity and a Masters degree in Theology. In 1981, Bishop Malone earned a Doctorate in Theology (ThD) at Boston University and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge in 1990.

Bishop Malone was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on May 20th, 1972 by then-Archbishop Humberto Medeiros and was assigned to St. Patrick Parish, Stoneham as Associate Pastor. In 1974, he was named to the faculty of St. Clement High School, Somerville; two years later he joined the faculty and served as chaplain at Xaverian High School, Westwood. He was appointed to the faculty of his alma mater, St. John Seminary College in 1979 where he taught religious and theological studies. He also served as registrar and academic dean during his tenure. During those same years, he was a part-time chaplain at Wellesley (Wellesley, MA) and Regis (Weston, MA) Colleges and taught at Emmanuel College, Boston. In 1990, the Bishop was assigned to the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Center as chaplain at St. Paul Parish. He accepted the position of Director of the Office of Religious Education for the Archdiocese in 1993; two years later he was named Secretary for Education, the cabinet position which oversees all the educational activities of the Archdiocese. In March of 2000, he was ordained Titular Bishop of Aptuca and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, South Region.

The 11th Bishop of Portland has produced and hosted television programs for Boston Catholic Television; has been the archdiocesan liaison with the local Jewish community; and has lectured nationally on Catholic education.

Bishop Malone has one sister, Harriet Malone, who teaches art at St. John's Prep., Danvers, MA.