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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 11, 2005 -  Contact: Joseph Giomboni King’s College Public Relations Office, (570) 208-5957.

VATICAN II EXPERT REV. KOMONCHAK

IS KING'S COLLEGE MOREAU LECTURER

October 11, 2005 – Rev. Joseph Komonchak, Ph.D., professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., is considered a leading expert on Vatican II in the English-speaking world. As the Church commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council, Father Komonchak will explore the Council’s living legacy and challenge during two talks at King’s College as the 2005-2006 Moreau Lecturer.
 
On Tuesday, October 18, at 3:30 p.m., Father Komonchak will present  "The Ecclesiology of Vatican II: Achievement and Promise." His talk will focus on Vatican II’s teaching on the Church: what it achieved and its potential influence on the future of the Church.  
 
At 7 p.m., he will speak about "Differing Visions of the Church in the Modern World: Gaudium et Spes." Father Komonchak will discuss the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World focusing on diverse interpretations of the document concerning the relationship between the Church and the world.
 
The King’s College Moreau Lecture program is named after Father Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the Holy Cross Community that established King’s College. The lectures bring outstanding Catholic and American thinkers to the King’s campus to address such issues as social justice, peace, ethics and morality, Catholic identity, the role of women, biomedical dilemmas and other subjects that touch the lives of students, Catholics and all people concerned with the difficult issues facing the Church society today.
 
Both lectures will be held in the Burke Auditorium of The William G. McGowan School of Business on North River Street and both are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Rev. Thomas P. Looney, C.S.C., at 208-5900, ext. 5422, or e-mail tplooney@kings.edu.  
 

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