Panels & Workshops

Mission Statement: To provide a prayerful voice, attentive to the Spirit, through which the Faithful can actively participate in the governance and guidance of the Catholic Church.

• Discipleship and its revival at Vatican II
• Energize, Educate & Evangelize: New Models for the New Parish
• Who Says it’s Time to Blow Out the Candles? – Parish Closings
• “Called to BE Church”: A Model for Participatory Pastoral Planning
• Discipleship for Women in the Church of the 21st Century
• “Googling God” – Making Catholicism Relevant to Young Adults
• Recovering Catholicism
• Lay Involvement in the Church - Paul Lakeland, Leonard Swidler
• We/They – Breaking Down Barriers. Non Violence Training, Philosophy
• Love in Action: How to Use Gospel Nonviolence to Follow Christ and Change the Church
• “Voices of the Faithful: Loyal Catholics Striving for Change” – Report from a Study of VOTF members & the organization
• Nature of Authority in Local Faith Communities
• Attentive to the Spirit – Centering Prayer
• Find Your Voice; Trust your Voice; Share Your Voice
• Media: Using the Media to Promote your Affiliate & the Goals of VOTF – Rapid Response Communication
• Catholic Women Through the Centuries: Foremothers & sisters, Sisters & Mothers for Christ and Church (historical perspective)
  

Goal 1: Support Survivors of Clergy Sex Abuse

• Anger and Healing – Movement from Victim to Survivor
• Supporting Survivors
• Implementing Statutes of Limitations Legislation

Goal 2: Support of Priests of Integrity

• Priesthood in Crisis: VOTF Responds
• Issues Affecting the Priesthood & Their Implications for Reform in the Latin Rite Church
• Election of Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Choose its Leaders.

Goal 3: Structural Change within the Church

• Is Another Crisis Looming? Can We Prevent It? Parish Safety Programs
• Synods & Councils as Instruments of Accountability in the History of the Church
• Demystifying the Parish Financial Report
• Dialoguing with the Diocese