Mercy sister named Canon Law Society of America executive coordinator

Published: 2008-03-03

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Mercy Sister Sharon Euart has been named executive coordinator of the Canon Law Society of America, effective Aug. 1. Sister Euart is the first woman to hold what is the society's chief administrative officer position. She was president of the organization 2004-05. Sister Euart has been a member of the Canon Law Society of America since 1984 and has been a consultor to its board of governors, 1995-97; a member of the organization's publications task force; and served on the Committee on the Canonical Aspects of the Sexual abuse of Minors. She also was a member of the special task force that drafted a guide to the implementation of the U.S. bishops' essential norms for diocesan and eparchial policies dealing with allegations of clerical sexual misconduct. A former associate general secretary of the U.S. bishops' conference, Sister Euart serves as a consultant to the bishops' Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance and to the work group on "Apostolos Suos," the Vatican document by Pope John Paul II on the theological and juridical nature of bishops' conference.

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