National Press Club NEWSMAKER: Pope Francis: How He Was Elected and How He Will Change the Church

With Father Thomas Reese, SJ, Senior Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Father Reese, an author and popular speaker who leads the Woodstock Theological Center's work on Religion and Public Policy, spent most of March in Rome as a Vatican analyst covering the election of the new pope for The National Catholic Reporter. With a doctorate in political science, he has written a series of books analyzing the politics and organization of the Catholic Church – and his writings on such issues as priestly celibacy and the ordination of women have generated no small amount of controversy.

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Father Reese will analyze the forces that led to the selection of Argentina's Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the new pontiff – and how his papacy is likely to reshape the Catholic Church – at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference scheduled for 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 3, 2013 in the club's Lisagor Room on the 13^th Floor of the National Press Building, 529 14^th St., NW, Washington, D.C.

WHEN: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 10 a.m.
WHERE: National Press Building, NPC-Lisagor Room, 529 14th St. NW, WDC, 20045

SOURCE National Press Club

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