Paulists name Father Kane to head up reconciliation office

Published: 2008-01-03

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The general council of the Paulist Fathers has named Paulist Father Thomas A. Kane as director of the Paulist Office for Reconciliation. Father Kane, a liturgy and preaching professor at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., will work out of the Paulist Center in Boston. He succeeds Paulist Father John E. Hurley, now executive director of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York. In announcing the Dec. 12 appointment, the Paulists said reconciliation is an intrinsic part of their charism, with the order devoting $1.2 million from 2007 to 2011 to reconciliation awareness, training and programming. "Reconciliation involves healing people's wounds -- whether it be caused by abuse, disagreement with the church's stand on an issue or anything that led someone to feel alienated or rejected -- and welcoming people back to the church," the announcement said.

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