Please join in for this talk by Father Gerald E. Murray to deepen your understanding about the Church currently and fortify your spirit. The Catholic Church is undergoing a time of turbulence and doctrinal confusion. Pressures from both outside and inside the Church have left ordinary Catholics in a state of perplexity. How should we respond to this crisis of faith?
Speaker: Father Gerald E. Murray
Topic: Crisis in the Church
Date/Time: Tuesday, 14 May, 1-2 PM EST
Venue: UN Secretariat Building - Room S-1523
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Speaker Bio: Father Gerald E. Murray was born in Brooklyn, New York in May 1959, and grew up in New Rochelle, NY. He attended Regis High School and Dartmouth College. He entered St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie in 1980, and was ordained a priest on December 1, 1984. He was assigned to various parishes in the Bronx and Manhattan before being sent to the Gregorian University in Rome in 1993 to study Canon Law. He was awarded a Doctorate in Canon Law in 1998, and then served briefly as a Judge on the Metropolitan Tribunal before being named Pastor of St. Vincent De Paul Church on West 23rd Street in 1998. In 2012 Fr. Murray was named Pastor of Holy Family Church. Fr. Murray has appeared as a commentator on religious topics on various television and radio outlets, including EWTN, EWTN Spanish, Fox News, Fox Business News, MSNBC, NY1, Fox News Radio and the Voice of America. He is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian, and has a working knowledge of Portuguese. He served in the United States Naval Reserve Chaplain Corps from 1994 to 2005. He is the author (with Diane Montagna) of "Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society" (Emmaus Road Publishing 2022). He is a columnist at thecatholicthing.org and humanlifereview.com.
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