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The Catholic-Labor Network & The Catholic Social Ministry
Gathering 2004
Dear Friends:
Tom Shellabarger (tshellabarger@usccb.org),
an active Catholic-Labor Network member and a staff member in the
Office of Social Development of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops, has seen that the Catholic-Labor Network will again
be part of the 2004 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering in Washington,
D.C. The SMG will be February 20-25, 2004, in Washington, D.C. Full
information and registration can be found at: www.usccb.org/sdwp/csmg04.htm.
As part of the SMG, the
Catholic-Labor Network will be hosting a “wrap-around” lunch on Sunday,
February 22, 2004. The lunch will be $15.00, and can be paid through
the web site: www.yesevents.com/social/.
Tom has set up a great light lunch, and a quality speaker program for
us. In addition, there are number of SMG workshops that will be of
interest to many of us. Specifically, on Tuesday morning, Clean
Clothes! Promoting Worker Justice through Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns will
be offered. This workshop addresses the anti-sweatshop movement
sweeping through Catholic high schools and colleges, and how we as
Catholics can build on the success of this growing movement for worker
justice?
In addition, we are organizing
an additional event on Sunday morning. Though the plans are still not
set, it will probably take the form of attending Mass together at one
of the Capital Hill parishes, and then retiring to a local bakery or
restaurant for brunch and conversation. Details will be forth coming.
However, I will post the information to the Catholic-Labor Web site (www.catholiclabor.org),
and also have another mailout before the event. In the meantime, you
can contact me at 409-985-8010 (St. John Catholic Church) or at
409-749-0171 (cellular phone) for more information.
I hope that if you are already
attending the SMG, that you will join us at the Sunday luncheon, and if
you are not but in the Washington, D.C. area at that time, that you
will take part in our different activities.
Your brother in Christ,
Fr. Sinclair Oubre, J.C.L.
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