Diocesan Adult Enrichment Conference

2012 Diocesan Adult Enrichment Conference - "Living Faith Fully, Sharing Faith Freely"

The Office for Catechesis is pleased to announce that Fr. Robert Barron (www.WordOnFire.org), creator of the Catholicism Project, will keynote the 2012 DAEC. The Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki, bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, will offer the closing address for the conference.

This year's DAEC will be held at the Decatur Conference Center and Hotel November 4-5. In addition, two pre-conference sessions will be held on November 3: "Coaching The Right Way," a session for caoches at Catholic schools; and Theology of Body for Teens training for catechists and youth ministers.

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About the Keynote Speaker

Fr. Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He's America's first podcasting priest and one of the world's great and most innovative teachers of Catholicism. His global, non-profit media ministry called Word On Fire (www.WordOnFire.org) reaches millions of people by utilizing advanced and emerging technologies to draw people into or back to the Faith.

Fr. Barron is the creator and host of CATHOLICISM, a groundbreaking, 10-part documentary series and study program about the Catholic Faith. He is a passionate student of art, architecture, music and history, which he calls upon throughout his global travels in the making of CATHOLICISM.

Word On Fire programs are broadcast regularly on WGN America (Sundays at 9:30 am EST), EWTN, Relevant Radio, the popular Word on Fire YouTube Channel, and the Word on Fire website, which offers daily blogs, articles, commentaries, and over ten years of weekly sermon podcasts.

Ordained in 1986, Fr. Barron is the Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and Culture at The University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary near Chicago. He has published numerous books, essays, and DVD programs. He is a frequent commentator on faith and culture for The Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, FOX News, Our Sunday Visitor, The Catholic Herald in London, and The Catholic New World.

Fr. Barron lectures extensively in the United States and abroad, including the Pontifical North American College at the Vatican and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Cardinal George calls Fr. Barron "one of the Church's best messengers."

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