Location: Regency VI
These panelists will discuss how stewardship, as outlined in the bishops’ pastoral letter, Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response, has impacted the Church, and is still forming parishioners in parishes around the globe…from the Philippines to the United Kingdom, and South America to Canada.
Panelists:
Rock Beharry
Director of Stewardship, Development and Pontifical Mission Societies
Diocese of Georgetown
Guyana, South America
Jose Clemente
Executive Director
Socio Pastoral Institute
Archdiocese of Manila, Philippines
Teresa Keogh
Advisor for Stewardship
Archdiocese of Southwark
United Kingdom
Michael Murphy
Executive Director
ICSC
Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Moderator: Vito Napoletano
President Emeritus, ICSC
Orlando, Florida
Rock Beharry has attended ten ICSC conferences, from 2007 to 2016, and has been diocesan director for stewardship and development in the Diocese of Georgetown, Guyana from 2007 to present. He is serving his second term on the ICSC board of directors representing the dioceses of the Antilles (Caribbean) Episcopal Conference (AEC). Although he began working with his home diocese in 2007, he has been active in parish and diocesan ministries for over 20 years. In addition to organizing stewardship within the wider AEC, Mr. Beharry is a member of the Antilles Canon Law Society and a diocesan director of Pontifical Mission Societies. Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Mr. Beharry holds an advanced diploma in project management, certificates in religious studies, and has recently completed studies for a graduate diploma in ecclesiastical administration.
Jose Clemente is the executive director of the Socio-Pastoral Institute (SPI), a faith-based organization founded by Catholic priests and religious from several religious congregations who came together to promote a renewal of Church and society in the Philippines. SPI is located in Quezon City, in metropolitan Manila. Among its many pastoral activities, SPI promotes the spirituality of stewardship and the building of disaster resilient communities in local churches as it addresses the issues of material and spiritual poverty in the Philippines. Mr. Clemente is also a filmmaker who has experience in the fields of documentary production and photography. He has produced over 50 video documentaries and has won several awards from prestigious awardgiving bodies in the Philippines. Mr. Clemente was formerly involved with Asian Rainbow, an organization that promoted cultural and religious dialogue among religious leaders in South and Southeast Asia. Today he is the treasurer of the Association of Christian Institutes for Social Action which trains young men and women working in the 40 ACISCA-affiliated Christian institutes around Asia to confront the critical and emerging issues of our times. Mr. Clemente is also a member of the ICSC board of directors.
Teresa Keogh is advisor for stewardship in the Archdiocese of Southwark in London, England and holds the ICSC board of directors seat for Region XX. Her diocesan responsibilities see her facilitating and running workshops across the diocese as well as sitting on the diocesan spirituality commission. The focus of her work is in encouraging parishioners to see stewardship as a spirituality and way of life; a role that is very much about changing hearts and minds. She also teaches part-time and is a senior examiner in English literature, for which she runs training internationally. In the past year she has travelled extensively in the Middle East and Far East as well as Europe. Previously she taught school for over 20 years, nine as deputy head teacher in a Catholic school of over 1,000 pupils. Ms. Keogh holds a master’s degree in Christian spirituality and wrote her dissertation on the interface between the Ignatian examen and stewardship. Nationally, she is a member of the Bishops’ Council of England and Wales Spirituality Committee.
Michael Murphy is the executive director of the International Catholic Stewardship Council. He has provided leadership in Christian stewardship formation and institutional Catholic philanthropy for more than 20 years. He established the development office for the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1994 and served as its director as well as that of the Archdiocese of Detroit Endowment Foundation until 2007. As a result of his own research and theological reflection on Christian stewardship, Mr. Murphy and his team developed a comprehensive manual for introducing parishes to stewardship. Now in its second printing, Called by Christ, Gifted by the Spirit, has enjoyed much success among parishes and dioceses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and, in its Spanish-language version, in parts of Latin America. Mr. Murphy’s team assisted the archbishop of Detroit in securing funds, both for the archdiocese and for Catholic institutions internationally, in an aggregate amount of $645 million over a span of 14 years. This included a $100 million archdiocesan endowment fund, the largest of its kind in the mid-90s; a $27.4 million scholarship fund for inner-city Catholic school children; and $352.6 million in archdiocesan annual appeal funds. The appeal itself yielded an average $30.2 million per year in funding over a nine-year period. It remains the largest diocesan annual appeal in North America. A native Tennessean, Mr. Murphy was a practicing attorney who specialized in the areas of litigation, and probate and estate planning. He was an instructor in insurance law and decedent’s estates for those preparing to become certified life underwriters and financial planners at the American College of Insurance and Tax Institute in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. He studied in the divinity program at the University of Notre Dame, where he also earned a master’s degree in systematic theology.
Amy McEntee
Kimberly Kay Cox
Mark Mogilka
Armando Cervantes
Anna Betancourt
Andrea Chavez-Kopp