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President of Catholic Charities USA Fred Kammer: Commencement Speaker
Jesuit father and President of Catholic Charities USA, Fred Kammer, S.J., will be the keynote speaker at the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law commencement on Saturday, May 15, at 10 a.m. in the Morris F.X. Jeff, Sr., Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park.
The university commencement takes place Sunday, May 16, at 10 a.m., in the Municipal Auditorium. University President Bernard P. Knoth, S.J., will deliver the commencement remarks. His Excellency Archbishop Francis Schulte, D.D., will be in attendance at the ceremony.
Kammer has been head of Catholic Charities since 1992. An attorney, author and activist, he has a long and impressive history of work on behalf of low-income families and people in need. Prior to this position, he was policy advisor for health and welfare issues in the U.S. Catholic ConferenceÃs Department of Social Development and World Peace. A native of New Orleans, Kammer served as executive director of Catholic Community Services in Baton Rouge.
In 1991, Kammer wrote his first book, Doing Faithjustice: An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought. He followed with a second, Salted With Fire, in 1994.
Kammer is a former visiting scholar at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, and he was the founding chair of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. He received a bachelor of arts from Spring Hill College in Mobile, a juris doctor from Yale University, and a masterÃs in divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Loyola University of Chicago.
Based on the heritage of Catholic Jesuit higher education in Louisiana since 1849, Loyola University New Orleans was chartered in 1912. Today, the university serves approximately 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelorÃs and masterÃs degrees. Visit Loyola University New Orleans on the World Wide Web at www.loyno.edu.
Founded in 1914, the Loyola School of Law operates both a day program for full-time students and evening program for part-time students with a total enrollment of approximately 680 and 32 full-time faculty members. The law school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and is accredited by the American Bar Association.
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