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Monday, January 28, 2008

MONSIGNOR ROBERT McELROY TO SPEAK FEB.1-FIRST FRIDAY

Foundations for a Catholic Ethic of War Termination

Start: Feb 1 2008 - 12:00
End: Feb 1 2008 - 14:00
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
12:00 noon-- Handlery Dining Room, Lone Mountain Room 100, University of San Francisco
Msgr. Robert McElroy, Bay Area priest, scholar and author, will explore an ethical framework within the Catholic tradition that might inform a position on withdrawal from Iraq.

Robert W. McElroy is pastor of St. Gregory’s Parish in San Mateo, CA where he has served for eleven years.
He is the author of The Search for an American Public Theology (Paulist Press) and Morality and American Foreign Policy reprinted by Princeton University Press in 2007.

He is a frequent contributor to America magazine, having recently published the highly regarded article “Church Teaching on War: Why We Must Withdraw from Iraq” in September 2007.

Msgr. McElroy holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a doctorate in ethics from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and a Ph.D. in international relations from Stanford. He teaches social ethics at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, CA.
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