D.C. Alumni Club Speaker: Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ

D.C. area members: 

The D.C. Alumni Club welcomes Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ to speak on "Pope Francis and the Reform of the Church."

Fr. Reese is senior analyst for National Catholic Reporter and former editor of America Magazine.

On May 14, 2014, he was appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission that reviews the facts and circumstances of religious freedom violations and makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress.

Reese entered the Jesuits in 1962 and was ordained in 1974. He was educated at St. Louis University, the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and at the University of California Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. in political science. He worked in Washington as a writer and lobbyist for tax reform from 1975 to 1978. He was an associate editor of America magazine, where he wrote on politics, economics and the Catholic church, from 1978 to 1985 and editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2005. He was a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center from 1985 to 1998 and 2006 to 2013.

WHEN:  March 3, 2015

Refreshments at 6:00 p.m.
Talk at 7:00 p.m.

WHERE:  Foley & Lardner Law Offices
3000 K Street, NW
Suite 600
Washington Harbor

COST: $25 for ASN Alumni and guests,
free for Georgetown ASN chapter members

Parking available in Washington Harbor building.
Guests are welcome.

RSVP to Club President Jack Landers by February 27th.