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Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria will host its first Saints Peter and Paul Conference

Elizabeth A. Elliott | Catholic Herald Staff Writer

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The Basilica of St. Mary in Alexandria will host its first Saints
Peter and Paul Conference June 30, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. National author, speaker and
writer, Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in
Philadelphia, will present the topic “Sex, Love and Gender.”

The conference, held near the feast of Saints Peter and Paul,
will highlight the teaching authority of the church and why the teaching
contained in “Humanae Vitae” is still relevant 50
years after it was first published. The event is sponsored by the Office of
Marriage, Family and Respect Life.

The conference begins with Mass at 8:30 a.m., followed by
registration and the start of the presentations. Father Pacholczyk will give
three talks during the day: Overview of “Humanae Vitae”;
The Gift of Human Life — Begotten Not Made; and Thinking Through the
Transgender Question. Each talk will be followed with time for Q&A.

Father Edward C. Hathaway, rector of the basilica, chose to bring
Father Pacholcyk after hearing him speak at the annual priest convocation in
early May.

Father Pacholczyk is director of education at the National
Catholic Bioethics Center and directs the center’s National Catholic
Certification Program in Health Care Ethics. He has taught bioethics classes at
St. John’s Seminary in Boston, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa.,
The Catholic University of America in Washington, and Holy Apostles College and
Seminary in Connecticut.

 If you go

St. Mary School Gym, 400 Green St., Alexandria, June 30 9
a.m.-2 p.m.

Optional Mass at Basilica of St. Mary, 310 S. R oyal St.,
Alexandria, 8:30 a.m.

 Register at stmaryoldtown.org/conference/.

 

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