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Feb 24, 2006

Francis Cardinal George To Participate In Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture At DePaul Feb. 28

WHO: His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, archbishop of Chicago and a member of the Sacred College of Cardinals;

The Rev. John Pawlikowski, O.S.M., president of the International Conference of Christians and Jews and director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago;

Rabbi David Sandmel, head rabbi of the K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Congregation in the Hyde Park community of Chicago, and the Crown Ryan Professor of Jewish Studies at the Catholic Theological Union;

Judith Valente, contributing correspondent for “Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly,” on PBS Television;

WHAT: will participate in the 11th Annual Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture, a conversation between Pawlikowski and Sandmel on “Nostra Aetate 40 Years After the Second Vatican Council: Where Catholic-Jewish Relations Have Come and Where They Need to Go.”

The moderator is Valente.

Francis Cardinal George will provide closing remarks after the conversation.

A reception will follow the program.

WHEN: Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.

WHERE: DePaul University’s Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield Ave., Room 120

SPONSORS: The Archdiocese of Chicago, The American Jewish Committee, The Chicago Board of Rabbis, The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies and DePaul’s School of Education

CONTACT: Sr. Joan McGuire, O.P., 312/751-5325, eia@archchicago.org .