Directed by local business executives and co-sponsored by the Marquette University College of Business Administration and Saint Francis Seminary, the forum unites business leaders and offers presentations by well-known authors, catechists and speakers for monthly morning meetings.
Or did, as explained in the posted letter.
Over the past five years, attendance has decreased from an average of 80 to below 50. Each year, the Executive Committee of the Forum discusses how to increase attendance by attracting quality speakers, especially for younger working adults.
So many memories. The speaker who called the closing of most of Milwaukee's inner city parishes a "scandal". Laicized bishop James "Lucky Jim" Shannon. Another attendee's quiet invitation to visit the local Opus Dei group. Sister Joan Chittister. And Archbishop Weakland asking rhetorically who wouldn't favor abrogating doctrines like the Immaculate Conception or Assumption in the interest of Christian unity.
Given the realities of the situation, we have jointly agreed to take a “time out” for this academic year.
Not to mention the speaker who flat-out lied about the number of authorized immigrants from Mexico and who then proceeded to imply that all who opposed 'legalization' were simply racist and/or xenopobes.
ReplyDelete(He understated by a couple orders of magnitude...)