Thornycroft Priests’ Conference 2015 MARCH 23-25

Vatican II emphasized the universal consequences in the West, such as call to holiness, the fullness of the a supposed freedom to dissent from lay vocation in the Church, the right Magisterial Teaching, a neglect of to religious liberty and freedom of Catechetics and a decline in Mass conscience as well as the decree attendance. Part of the reason, of on Ecumenism. It also set up new course is also the growth of modern pastoral structures more suited to secularism. Newman is widely present needs, such as the Synod regarded as ‘the hidden Father of of , Personal Prelatures and Vatican II’ and a precursor of a Ordinariates. among other things. All number of its teachings. Fr. Ian these have become very important Ker has recently published a book for ensuring the Church’s right and on Newman’s contribution to the ability to teach and evangelize and Council’s teaching and also on defend her doctrine on, for example, what he would have said about the marriage issues and reproductive unintended consequences including technology. modern secularism and infidelity. At the same time, it had unintended FIFTY YEARS SINCE VATICAN II

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MONDAY MARCH 23rd TUESDAY MARCH 24th

12.30 Registration Mgr Keith Newton 1.30 Lunch 7.45 Morning Prayer, Meditation and Holy Mgr Keith Newton is the Ordinary of Richborough in the Diocese of Canterbury. 2.30 The New Reproductive Technologies Mass the of Our Lady of He was received into the and Dignitatis Personae 9.25 Breakfast Walsingham which was set up in England on 1st January, 2011 and ordained to the Fr Francis Marsden 10.30 The First Years of the Ordinariate of in January 2011. As an Anglican he was priesthood by Vincent Cardinal Nichols on 5.00 Bringing up Children Today Our Lady of Walsingham Dean of Blantyre Cathedral, Malawi, Vicar 15th January, 2011. Adrian & Jocelyn Owens Rt.Rev.Mgr Keith Newton of Holy Nativity, Bristol, and of 6.15 Evening Prayer 11.30 Followed by Questions 6.45 Dinner 1.15 Lunch 2.30 Newman and Vatican II THE SPEAKERS Fr Frank Marsden Fr. Ian Ker Fr Frank Marsden is parish priest of Chorley, Catholic Times since it started. He also 4.00 Tea Lancs. He studied Chemistry at Cambridge teaches Bioethics at Maryvale Institute in 6.00 Benediction & Eucharistic Adoration and came to national attention when he Birmingham. For some time he also taught 6.45 Dinner wrote a pamphlet called ‘Weaving a Web theology in a Ukrainian seminary and is an 8.00 Get-Together of Confusion’ in the 80’s. He has written acknowledged expert on that country. with Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of a weekly article of some substance in the WEDNESDAY MARCH 25th Shrewsbury Adrian & Jocelyn Owens 7.45 Morning Prayer, Meditation and Holy Jocelyn Owens - mother of nine children, and deputy leader of West Lancashire Mass promoter of personal and family Borough Council, local councillor, primary 9.25 Breakfast development classes and founder of The and secondary school governor and trustee 10.30 The Synod of Bishops: Testing the Family Forge (CIO status pending), wife of of the Birchwood Centre, Skelmersdale Catholicity of Our Faith Adrian. which provides accommodation and Fr. Vincent Twoney Adrian Owens is a self employed business support for homeless and vulnerable youth. 11.30 Coffee consultant, former Parliamentary candidate 12.00 Questions and panel discussion

Fr Vincent Twomey 1.15 Lunch and Depart After ordination in 1970 Fr Twomey Professor on the Theology Faculty of the transferred to the University of Regensburg University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in the to do his PhD under the supervision of the Summer semester of 1983. then Professor Joseph Ratzinger. In 1982 Since 1978, he has been a member of APPLICATION FORM he was appointed professor at Mödling, the Ratzinger circle of doctoral and post- Name:______Parish:______Austria. In 1983, he became a lecturer doctoral students that meets once a year and later a professor in Moral Theology at for a week-end seminar. Address:______Post Code:______Maynooth, Ireland. He was also Visiting Email:______Phone:______Fr Ian Ker The cost of the conference is £175 for the three days including accommodation. The day rate Fr Ian Ker is a senior research fellow at definitive biography that was reisssued is £40 which includes lunch. Please send this application together with the full fee or a deposit Blackfriars Hall, Oxford where he is a by Oxford University Press in 2010 for the of £20 (payable to “HCF Priests”) to (please see Feedback link on webpage) member of the theology faculty. He is beatification. He is also the author of ‘The also a parish priest. Generally regarded Catholic Revival in English Literature, 1845- as the leading authority on Bl. John Henry 1961’, ‘G.K. Chesterton: A Biography’, and Newman, on whom he has published most recently ‘Newman on Vatican II’. more than 20 books including the

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