National Directory for the Formation, Ministry and Life of Permanent ...

Notes11Assembly of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville,Minn. (June 9-16, 1986), in Vocations and Future Church Leadership (Washington, D.C.:United States Catholic Conference, 1986).43 NSD (1996), pp. 13-16.44 In 1994, Most Rev. Crescenzio Sepe, D.D., Secretary of the Congregation for the Clergy,addressed the National Catholic Diaconate Conference on the background and preparationsbeing made for the plenary assembly scheduled for November 1995. In 1997, Cardinal DaríoCastrillón Hoyos, Pro-Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, spoke on “The Deacon inthe Life and Mission of the Church,” providing insight on the Directory being prepared by theCongregation. In 2000, Most Rev. Gabriel Montalvo, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States,addressed the role of the deacon in the Church’s mission of new evangelization.45 See Note 1 above regarding the removal of the word “permanent” from title of the Bishops’Committee on the Diaconate.46 The members of the Subcommittee on Formation and Curriculum included the following:Most Rev. Howard Hubbard, Bishop of Albany, N.Y. (chairman); [Deacon Ministry andLife] Deacon James Swiler, Director of Diaconate Formation, Archdiocese of New Orleans,La. (facilitator); Mrs. Bonnie Swiler, Archdiocese of New Orleans, La.; Sr. Yvonne Lerner,OSB, Director of Diaconate Formation, Diocese of Little Rock, Ark.; [Formation] Dr. AnnHealey, Director of Deacon Formation, Fort Worth, Texas (facilitator); Rev. MichaelGalvan, Pastor, St. Joseph Church, Pinole, Calif.; Deacon James Keeley, Director ofDiaconate Formation, Diocese of San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Jeanne Schrempf, Director ofReligious Education, Diocese of Albany, N.Y.; Deacon Enrique Alonso, President, NationalAssociation of Hispanic Deacons; [Diocesan Structures and Selection] Mr. Timothy C.Charek, Director, Deacon Formation Program, Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wis. (facilitator);Most Rev. Dominic Carmon, SVD, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of NewOrleans, La., member of the Bishops’ Committee on the Diaconate; Rev. Richard W. Woy,Vicar for Clergy, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Md.; [Curriculum] Deacon Stephen Graff,Dean of Students, St. Bernard’s Institute, Rochester, N.Y. (facilitator); Rev. Msgr. Ernest J.Fiedler, Rector, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Diocese of Kansas City, Mo., andformer Executive Director, NCCB Secretariat for the Diaconate; Rev. Bryan Massingale,Vice Rector, St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, Wis.; Rev. Alejandro Castillo, SVD,Director of the Office for Hispanic Affairs, California Catholic Conference, Sacramento,Calif.; Rev. Robert Egan, SJ, St. Michael’s Institute, Spokane, Wash.; Mr. Neal Parent,Executive Director, National Conference of Catechetical Leadership, Washington, D.C.;Dr. Seung Ai Yang, Professor of Scripture, The Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley, Calif.The members of the Subcommittee for Theological and Canonical Revision included MostRev. William Lori, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington, D.C. (chairman); [Theology] Rev.Msgr. Paul Langsfeld, Vice Rector, St. Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, Md. (facilitator);Deacon Samuel M. Taub, Diocese of Arlington, Va., former Executive Director, NCCBSecretariat for the Diaconate; Sr. Patricia Simpson, OP, Prioress, Dominican Sisters of San