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SUMMARY:Religious Life and Racial Justice
DESCRIPTION:The Center for the Study of Consecrated Life (CSCL) at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago (CTU) is offering a Fall 2026 event to explore the opportunities\, challenges\, and implications of naming and engaging Racial Justice among women’s and men’s religious congregations. \nThe event begins on October 28\, 2026 at 4:00-7:30 p.m.\, of listening and responding to two excellent plenary speakers. Refreshments will be served. The second day on October 29\, 2026 begins at 8:30am until 12:00pm consist of four workshops on religious life and the experiences of racial justice. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. \nThe events will address intercultural and racial contexts of religious life today. \nAttendance of the event is gratis and available in person and on Zoom. Free parking is available. \nWednesday\, October 28\, 2026 | 4-6:30 pm \nFeatured Plenary Speakers \nBrother Moises Gutierrez\, PhD\, is a Franciscan friar\, Province of Our Lady of Guadalupe. He is currently a core faculty professor in the doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Leadership at Creighton University. Brother Moises is originally from Guanajuato\, Mexico\, but he has spent the last 30 years living\, ministering\, and working in various countries. He holds a master’s degree in Intercultural Relations from Lesley University (Cambridge\, Massachusetts)\, and a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies with a concentration on global leadership from Gonzaga University. For his dissertation\, he developed a model of a transdisciplinary global mindset for global and local leadership. Brother Moises has made intercultural living and ministry an important component of his mission. He is passionate about diversity. He has been offering workshops\, talks\, courses\, and conferences on intercultural leadership\, ministry\, development\, etc. for the last 25 years. He also served as vocation director for his Franciscan province for seven years. \n  \n  \n  \nAnita Baird\, DHM\, is a member of the Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary and currently serves as United States Provincial. A longtime leader in the Catholic Church\, she became the first African American to serve as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Chicago in 1997 and later founded the Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice\, directing efforts to address racism within the Church and serving as Cardinal Francis George’s liaison for race relations. Sister Anita is a past president of the National Black Sisters’ Conference and has held leadership roles with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Her many honors include the Harriet Tubman “Moses of Her People” Award\, LCWR’s Outstanding Leadership Award\, and honorary degrees from Catholic Theological Union and St. Xavier University. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from DePaul University and an M.A. in Theology from Loyola University Chicago. \n  \nThursday\, October 29\, 2026 | Continental Breakfast 8:00 am | Program\, 8:30 am -12:30 pm \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Formation with: \nCorrina Thomas\, FSPA\nCorrina Thomas\, is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration. She lives in Chicago. Until lately she was ministering as the novice director for her congregation and the co-director of the InterCongregational Collaborative Novitiate in Chicago.\nCorrina was born and raised in India and has been living in the United States for 28 years. Besides formation\, her other ministries include media literacy\, spiritual direction\, program/retreat director in two spirituality centers\, and she has also worked with victims/survivors of human trafficking.\nCorrina believes passionately in the formation of religious life for the future and the necessity of creating intentional spaces for grace\, relationships\, collaboration and engagement for newer members. \nSusan Francois\, CSJP\nSusan Rose Francois is a Sister of St. Joseph of Peace. She has served in Congregation Leadership since 2015 and accompanies women in initial formation as Candidate Director. She received her MA in Theology from CTU in 2015 and is a Bernardin Scholar. Sister Susan is co-editor of Reseeding Religious Life through Global Sisterhood (Liturgical Press\, 2024) \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Leadership with: \nMila Díaz Solano\, OP\nSr. Mila Díaz Solano\, OP is a Dominican sister of Springfield\, born in Peru. She holds a master’s degree in theology from Catholic Theological Union and studied for her Doctoral Degree at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in Jerusalem.\nCurrently\, Mila is an adjunct faculty of Catholic Theological Union for Biblical Courses in Spanish and Associate Director of the Oscar Romero Scholars Program. Mila has served in the leadership of her congregation from 2019-2024. She is the President on the board of Asociación de Hermanas Latinas en América (AHLMA) and a member of the National Board of LCWR. \nCarol Zinn\, SSJ\nCarol Zinn\, SSJ\, is a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia and currently serves as Executive Director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). She has ministered in education\, religious education\, and congregational leadership and previously served in the Presidency of LCWR. She also represented the Congregations of St. Joseph at the United Nations\, representing more than 15\,000 Sisters of St. Joseph in 57 countries. Carol holds an MA in Theology from St. Bonaventure University and a doctorate in Curriculum Development and Education Foundations from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has also conducted research on leadership and transformation at Episcopal Divinity School and Harvard University. \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Community Living with: \nRoger Schroeder\, SVD\nRoger Schroeder\, is a member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). He worked for six years in Papua New Guinea. He later earned a doctorate degree in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1990. Since then\, he has taught at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is a member of the ImagoDEI anti-racism committee at CTU. His publications include Engaging Our Diversity: Interculturality and Consecrated Life Today (2020)\, with Sr. Maria Cimperman. \nFerdinand Beki Doren\, SVD\nFerdinand Beki Doren is an Indonesian-born Catholic priest\, SVD missionary\, and theologian specializing in mission theology\, interculturality\, and social transformation. He holds a Doctor of Ministry (DMin) from Catholic Theological Union (CTU) and pursued advanced studies at the University of São Paulo (USP)\, researching Brazilian popular religiosity and the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST). His pastoral ministry among marginalized urban communities in São Paulo is deeply grounded on Latin American liberation theology. He has taught and contributed to formation in mission theology\, liberation theology\, biblical studies\, and intercultural theology. \nReligious Life and Racial Justice in Ministry Settings with: \nFerdinand Okorie\, CMF\nFerdinand Okorie CMF\, is a member of Claretian Missionaries. He was a Campus Minister at Missouri State University\, and the Director of the National Shrine of St. Jude. He earned a doctorate degree from Loyola University\, Chicago in the New Testament and Early Christianity in 2018. Since then\, he has taught at Catholic Theological Union\, where he currently serves as the Vice President and Academic Dean. He serves as the Editor-in-chief of the award-winning US Catholic Magazine. Among his publications include An African Introduction to the New Testament (2026) with Abeneazer G. Urga and Elizabeth W. Mburu. \nMalachy Osunwa\, CMF\nMalachy Izunwunne Osunwa\, CMF is a Claretian Missionary priest from Nigeria\, ordained in 1994. He was associate novice master for six years and later studied the theology of religious life at the ITVR\, Madrid Spain. From 2002 to 2014\, he was the novice master in Nigeria\, Uganda and Kenya. He had three semesters of studies in Spirituality at the OST\, San Antonio between 2016 – 2017 and later was appointed as associate pastor from 2018 in San Antonio and later in Atlanta. He holds B.Phil\, B.Div\, M.Th & LSS (Religious Life.) \nFor information\, contact: Janet Hoffman\, deansoffice@ctu.edu
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