Pollster John Zogby will release new survey data on the beliefs and attitudes of American Catholics at Trinity Washington University May 6.
Zogby, president and CEO of Zogby International and author of The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House), will be the featured luncheon speaker at the "Washington Briefing for the Nation’s Catholic Community," cosponsored by Trinity and National Catholic Reporter.
The conference will be held on Trinity's campus in Northeast Washington, with an afternoon session Thursday May 6 at the Capitol Hill Visitors Center.
Members of the media wishing to register for all or part of the two-day conference should call 816-536-4199. Information on the conference, including a schedule and list of speakers, can be found at NCRonline.org/briefing. (Members of the public wishing to register for the conference can do so at that address or can register at the door.)
Panelists and participants include:
- John L. Allen, Jr., NCR senior correspondent whose most recent book is The Future Church: How Ten Trends are Revolutionizing the Catholic Church.
- Helen Alvare, former director of information and planning for the U.S. Bishops' pro-life office, and a professor of law at George Mason School of Law.
- Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa.
- Sr. Simone Campbell, executive director of Network, the Catholic social justice lobby
- Sr. Carol Keehan, D.C., president and chief executive officer of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, the organization that played a pivotal role in the health care reform debate.
- Thomas Patrick Melady, U.S. ambassador to the Holy See under President George H.W. Bush and senior diplomat in residence at The Institute of World Politics.
- Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University.
- R. James Nicholson, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and secretary for veterans affairs under George W. Bush, and senior counsel in Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck’s Washington, D.C., office.
- Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Fr. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown and the former editor of America magazine.
- James Roosevelt, Jr., president and chief executive officer of Tufts Health Plan, a not-for-profit health maintenance organization.
- Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
- Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Patricia A. Weitzel-O’Neill, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Washington, recently appointed executive director of the Center for Catholic Education at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education.
- John Zogby, the nation’s leading political pollster and senior fellow at the Catholic University of America’s Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies.
For additional information, call 816-536-4199.
