Voices for the Common Good: By Issue

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good's Voices for the Common Good Commentators address reporters, producers, and other members of the media as Catholic faith leaders. Each can speak with authority on different aspects of Catholic Teaching and its proper role in public life on such issues as health care, immigration reform and the environment.

To arrange interviews with the members of Voices for the Common Good, please contact Pat Wheeler at (202) 429-9682 or at pwheeler@catholicsinalliance.org.

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Simone Campbell

An expert on War and Peace-Just War, Simone Campbell, an attorney and Sister of Social Service, is the Executive Director of NETWORK, a Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace that educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.

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Fr. Fred L. Thelen, Pastor, Cristo Rey Church, Lansing, MI, Chairperson, Pax Christi Michigan

An expert on War and Peace-Just War, Fr. Thelen was ordained in 1980 and early in his clerical career helped to establish the Office of Peace and Justice Ministry for the Diocese of Lansing, MI. From 1988 to 1993 he served as an Associate Maryknoll Missionary in Peru.

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Mary Waskowiak, RSM, President, The Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas

An expert on Immigration, The Catholic Church, and The War and Peace-Just War issue, Mary Waskowiak, RSM, was elected President of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in July 2005,

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Lisa Sowle Cahill, Ph.D., Donald Monan Professor of Theology, Boston College

An expert on The Catholic Church and War and Peace-Just War, Lisa Sowle Cahill is the J. Donald Monan Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she has taught since 1976 on the history of Christian Ethics, Catholic Social and Sexual Ethics, Bioethics and the Ethics of War and Peace.

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Marie Dennis, Director, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

An expert on Economics,War and Peace/Just War, Ms. Dennis is director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, and serves as co-president of Pax Christi International and a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace. She holds an M.A. in Moral Theology from Washington Theological Union and is co-author or author of six books on the spirituality of social justice, peace and the integrity of creation.

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Kathleen Maas Weigert, Ph.D., Exec. Dir., The Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, Georgetown University

An expert on Poverty and War and Peace-Just War, Kathleen Maas Weigert is the Executive Director of the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University.

Andrew Bacevich

Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor of history and international relations, Boston University

Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.

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