Father Hurley is new director of National Pastoral Life Center

Published: 2007-08-21

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Paulist Father John E. Hurley will take the post of executive director of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York, effective Sept. 17. He said he will continue as director of the Paulist North American Office for Reconciliation in Washington until either January or July 2008 in order for a successor to be found, but will do the work out of New York. His appointment was announced by the center's board of directors Aug. 20. From 1997 to 2005, Father Hurley was executive director of the U.S. bishops' Secretariat for Evangelization. While there, he coordinated a three-year study to look for any problems in how parishes employ the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, and helped launch in 2003 the first North American Institute for Catholic Evangelization. In an Aug. 21 interview with Catholic News Service, Father Hurley said the National Pastoral Life Center "has certainly kept at the forefront of guiding pastoral initiatives in the life of the church for the past 25 years."

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