Professional Development Opportunities
Fall 2022
Certificate in Church Management
Date / Format:
Starting September 7 / Online
Description:
The Villanova School of Business will offer a certificate in church management webinar series starting September 7. Participants who complete all 12 webinars and reflection papers will earn a Certification in Church Management form Villanova University. The experience will help many church leaders to better understand financial and organization management and techniques.
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To apply or to view the webinar schedule, visit www.villanova.edu/ccm, email [email protected], call 610-519-6015, or click www.portlanddiocese.org/sites/default/files/files/VillanovaCM.pdf.
Professional Ethics for Ministry
Date / Format:
September 23 and September 25 / In person or online
Description:
This two-part workshop offers participants an opportunity to reflect theologically and pastorally on professional ethics in ministry. Through varied modalities, participants will consider a broad spectrum of ministerial activities and the correlative ethical responsibilities of the minister.
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Practice of Ministry for Youth and Young Adults
Date / Format:
Asynchronous in Fall 2022 / Online
Description:
Explore elements critical to the effective practice of ministry for and with youth and young adults. Considering the broad demographics herein, this course will foster skills of discernment and mentoring, which would be valuable across the spectrum of these varied constituencies and contexts. Together, participants will explore the contexts of the ministry (ecclesial and social), identify a vision for the work, and consider how that vision might assist in discerning God's action in and direction for work with youth and young adults.
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Education in Living Faith: Foundations and Practice
Date / Format:
Asynchronous in Fall 2022 / Online
Description:
This course proposes theological, spiritual and pedagogical foundations for faith-based education, ministry, and service. The course invites participants to develop their own theory and praxis of educating in faith, and to intentionally harness the faith formation potential of all functions of ministry and faith-based service. There is particular emphasis on religious education for a liberating faith that promotes the social values of God's reign - compassion and justice for all.
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The Mystery of the Trinity
Date / Format:
Asynchronous in the Fall and Spring of 2022 (offered twice) / Online
Description:
The course will offer the Scriptural sources, the dogmatic development and the works of contemporary theologians that have contributed to the Church’s reflection on God, One and Triune, as revealed through the life and praxis of Jesus of Nazareth. This fundamental path will permit us to offer a systematic Trinitarian theology of God as Mystery of salvation and liberation of all.
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Leadership Development
Date / Format:
Asynchronous in the Fall / Online
Description:
The program will prepare you to address complex challenges and positively impact any organization, in the Church and beyond, with a focus on collaboration, community, problem-solving, transparency, authenticity, diversity, and results.
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Winter 2023
Catholic School Management
Date / Format:
Starting in January / Online
Description:
This program is designed to enhance management skills and deepen the spirit of leadership. It will provide principals and administrators with high-quality training in the diverse skills needed to successfully lead Catholic schools. The tools and knowledge presented in the program will be of great value to school leaders and will better enable them to achieve the mission of Jesus Christ through their schools. This program was developed through a generous grant from the Ambassador’s Fund for Catholic Education.
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Spring 2023
Call and Response: An Introduction to the Moral Life
Date / Format:
Asynchronous in the Spring of 2023 / Online
Description:
This course introduces the primary sources of the Catholic moral traditions from the Commandments and Beatitudes to the moral and theological virtues as a call and response to Christian discipleship. Attention will be given to the tradition’s warrants aligned with moral thought and the philosophical traditions of the virtues and the natural law. Key subjects considered are freedom, authority, sin, conscience, and virtue as well as discernment of the ways to be in a world paradoxically coherent with and contrary to the invitation God extends to all, development of those skills and practices that contribute to growth as a moral agent, and recourse to the remedies of failures encountered along the pilgrim’s way.
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