Catholic Professional & Business Group
Reno, Nevada
Catholic Professional & Business Group

2010 Summer Picnic

                        5th Annual
Catholic Professional & Business Group Picnic


 When:  Saturday, July 24th, 4:30 PM

Where:   Canyon Creek Park Shelter
               1485 Robb Drive, Reno

   RSVP:  Greg Sprigg – 624-1142


The group will provide the meat, beverages & paper products.  Please bring a potluck item to share and chairs (if you have them).

June 10th Breakfast with Bishop Randolph Calvo.

Please register online for the June 10th breakfast with Bishop Randolph Calvo.  The breakfast begins, as always, at 7 am. at the Silver Legacy in downtown Reno.

Please join us as Bishop Calvo speaks to the group for his 5th annual State of the Diocese discussion.  Randolph Roque Calvo was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the seventh Bishop of Reno on December 23, 2005. Bishop Calvo was born on August 28, 1951, in Agaña, Guam. As a child, he moved with his family to San Francisco where he attended elementary school. He completed his clerical formation at Saint Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View, California, and at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Shortly thereafter, he earned a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He was ordained to the presbyterate on May 21, 1977 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and served as parochial vicar at Holy Name Parish in San Francisco (1977 - 1979) and at Saint Pius Parish in Redwood City (1979 - 1982). From 1982 to 1986, he studied canon law in Rome. He served as Vice Judicial Vicar for the San Francisco archdiocese (1986 -1987) and then as Judicial Vicar (1987 - 1997). In 1997, he was appointed as Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, California. He also taught canon law at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park. His episcopal ordination and installation was February 17, 2006 in Reno, Nevada.

Breakfast Meeting Location & Times

All our meetings are held at the Silver Legacy in Reno. The room varies, but we have people stationed at strategic locations to help guide you to the proper place.
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SPEAKER LIST 2009-1010

September 10, 2009 - Sharon Lee Giganti

Certified catechist and regular guest on Catholic Answers Live Radio kicks off our speaker season with her talk on “Oprah and the New Age Movement” and the business environment.

October 8, 2009 - Steve Kellmeyer
Nationally-known author and lecturer applies Catholic theology to today’s headlines - and to our life as business men and women.

FRIDAY: November 6 (FRIDAY), 2009 - Tim Staples
Come on this First Friday to hear Catholic Answers Apologist Tim Staples on “Pope Benedict XVI, For Such a Time as This.”

January 14, 2010 - Dcn. Harold Burke-Sivers
Founder of Aurem Cordis and frequent guest on EWTN presents “Truth, Freedom, and the Human Person:  Understanding Our Life in Christ.”


February11, 2010 - Barbara Nicolosi
An accomplished screenwriter, Nicolosi shares her Old-Media savvy in the New Media to encourage a new generation of Catholic culture warriors.

March11, 2010 - Jerry Usher
Former Host of Catholic Answers Live and founder  and president of Third Millennium Media Executive gives a talk on the priesthood in this Year of the
Priesthood.


April 8, 2010 - Fr. Bruce Lamb

Parochial Vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral here in Reno, will light our morning with his wit and humor of his conversion from his Jewish roots.


May 13, 2010 - Victor Claveau, MJ

Victor Claveau, a lay evangelist and founder of the Evangelization Station in 1989, is dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization.


June 10, 20010 - Bishop Randolph Calvo
Bishop of the Diocese of Reno (and canon lawyer) speaks to the group for his fifth annual State of the Diocese discussion.

First Saturday Pro-Life Rosary

Pray the rosary to end abortion - monthly on the first Saturday, at 9:00, located at the West
End Women's Clinic, 5915 Tyrone Rd, Reno

Nevada Chesterton Society

http://nvchesterton.blogspot.com/

New Terri Schiavo Documentary Gives Facts Media Distorted in Euthanasia Death

A new documentary about the life and death of Terri Schiavo presents facts that the mainstream media distorted. Schiavo was killed in a painful starvation and dehydration euthanasia death over the course of nearly two weeks when her former husband won a court order to kill her.

Read More at LifeNews.com

2008-09 Speakers

Introducing our speakers for 2008-09:

September 11, 2008 - John Martignoni

Our season begins with the host of EWTN Open Line
and the founder of the Bible Christian Society speaking
on “The Challenge of Being Catholic.”

October 9, 2008 - Mike Romano

Impressionist and stand-up comedian turned EWTN
radio producer uses humor to tell his conversion
story. Ask for Fr. Frank Pavone!

November 13, 2008 - Dale Ahlquist

President of American Chesterton Society returns to
Reno to present G.K. Chesterton’s thoughts on the
economy, business, and the workplace.

January 15, 2009 - Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Founder of “Your Coach for the Culture Wars” outlines
the direct and indirect negative impacts of the
culture wars on your business and how to fight back!

February 12, 2009 - Richard Lane

Catholic evangelist, co-founder of Qorban
Ministries, (and son of NFL legend Dick “Night Train”
Lane) asks “Do you know what you have?”   


March 12, 2009 - Ben Loop

Executive from Siemens Medical Solutions provides a
Catholic perspective on Just Pricing and Wages in a
free market economy. Take a modern look at Pope
Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum.

April 16, 2009 - Doug Sherman

Come show your support as the founder and president
of Immaculate Heart Radio gives an update on
Catholic Radio in the West!

May 14, 2009 - Bobby Schindler

Brother of Terri Schiavo and founder of Terri
Schindler - Schiavo Foundation details the pain of losing
his sister and his battle to make sure this cannot
happen again in the United States of America.

June 11, 2009 - Bishop Randolph Calvo

Bishop of the Diocese of Reno (and canon lawyer)
speaks to the group for his fourth annual State of the
Diocese discussion.

Economic Justice

Our speaker this morning outlined ten social precepts gleaned from the Catholic Church's documents on economic justice.  Below are the goals Ben listed:

1)     A just wage, which provides for the necessities of life, education for the children, savings for security in old age and hardship, and one which does not require that both parents be employed to supply for the family's needs;

2)     Unemployment benefits to provide for times of insecurity and hardship;

3)     Restraint in material consumption to enable us to assist the poor.  The Church also exhorts companies and the media to exercise restrain, and not to ...<< MORE >>

March 12, 2009 Ben Loop

Executive from Siemens Medical Solutions provides a Catholic perspective on Just Pricing and Wages in a free market economy.

Have you ever experienced conflicts between your responsibilities to your business and your duties as a Catholic?

Do you sometimes wonder if the economically rational choice is the right choice?

Do our actions as leaders in business enhance or detract from the Church’s vision for a just society?

This presentation explores the relationship between faith and commerce in free market conditions, drawing upon Catholic social teaching as expressed in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical, Rerum Novarum.

In preparation for next month's meeting with Ben Loop, you might want to read Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum or "On Capital and Labor.

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