The Bay Ridge Cluster invites young adults to Theology on Tap

The Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights cluster invites young adults in their 20s and 30s to Theology on Tap.

Young adults coming together to socialize, have a good time and celebrate the goodness of life with their peers who are interested in reflecting on the really important things of life.

Location: The Greenhouse Cafe, 7717 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Time: 7:00pm Happy ½ Hour * 7:30pm talk * 8:30pm socialFor more information please contact Fr. John Maduri at 718-238-2600.

SPEAKER

15 October: Fr. George Rutler

Coincidence and Providence

Fr. Rutler was ordained to the diaconate in Rome by His Eminence William Cardinal Baum in 1980 and received priestly ordination in St. Patrick's Cathedral at the hands of His Eminence Terence Cardinal Cooke in 1981. He served as Associate Pastor of St. Joseph's Bronxville; OL of Victory in the Wall Street area; and St. Agnes, in Manhattan. He was a university chaplain for the Archdiocese, and also chaplain to a general hospital and a psychiatric hospital. For ten years he was National Chaplain of Legatus, the organization of Catholic business leaders and their families, engaged in spiritual formation and evangelization. A board member of several schools and colleges, he is also chaplain of the New York Guild of Catholic Lawyers and has long been associated with the Missionaries of Charity, and other religious orders, as a retreat master. Since 1988 his weekly television program has been broadcast worldwide on EWTN. Father Rutler has lectured and given retreats in many nations, frequently Ireland and Australia. His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan appointed him pastor of the Church of Our Saviour, effective September 7, 2001.

Born 1n 1945, and reared in the Episcopal Tradition in New Jersey and New York, Father Rutler was an Episcopal priest for nine years. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1979 and was sent to the North American College in Rome for seminary studies. Fr. Rutler graduated from Dartmouth, where he was a Rufus Choate Scholar, and took advanced degrees at the John Hopkins University and the General Theological Seminary. He holds several degrees from the Gregorian and Angelicum Universities in Rome, including the Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology, and studied at the Institut Catholique in Paris. In England, in 1988 the University of Oxford awarded him the degree Master of Studies. From 1987 to 1989 He was a regular preacher to the students, faculty and townspeople of Oxford. Thomas More College and Christendom College awarded him Honorary Doctorates in Humane Letters.

Fr. Rutler contributes to numerous scholarly and popular journals and has published 17 books on theology, history, cultural issues, and the lives of the saints, and also one book on sports, as a member of the U.S. Squash Racquets Association.