Peace through Justice Facilitator

The facilitator serves the entire Congregation and publishes monthly NewsNotes on justice issues, and provides educational materials for Congregational Small Groups (CSGs). On behalf of the Leadership Team and the Congregation, the facilitator helps engage the Congregation in the Chapter Acts, offers new opportunities for action and responds to requests for assistance from sisters and associates, as needed, in their work for a just world. With so many needs, the facilitator also sifts through the many opportunities for peace and justice work to identify those closest to our Congregation's charism.

Frank McCann, CSJP-A currently serves as the full time Peace through Justice Facilitator for the Congregation. He started the position part time in 2013 and became full time in 2015. He has a long association with the sisters and both educational and life experience in the work of justice and peace. His work includes representing the Congregation as the NGO representative to the UN. He also regularly meets with or communicates with other justice-related organizations, such as RUN (Religious at the UN), ROAR (Religious Organizations Along the River), JCWR (The Justice Conference of Women Religious) and NETWORK, the Catholic Sisters social justice lobby in Washington, DC. Frank maintains contact with Pax Christi, USA, Pax Christi, UK, CAFOD and the Peace and Justice Network in the UK. He also works with the Leadership Team and financial officers of the Congregation to monitor and promote our socially responsible investing.

Frank is married to Eileen, who is an associate in the Eastern region. They have three grown children and nine grandchildren.

Education

Frank is a graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in Communication Arts (1974) and from Immaculate Conception Seminary, with an M.A. in Theology (1978) with a focus on Biblical Studies. Since then he has completed a training course in nonviolence with Pace e Bene (2011) and participated in a learning program on the principles of nonviolence with the Metta Center (2015).

Frank McCann, CSJP-A, has known and worked with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace since 1979 when they served at St. Elizabeth's Parish in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Soon after, Frank and his wife Eileen worked as volunteers helping to organize parish Human Concerns ministries in their deanery under the leadership of Sister Suzanne Golas, CSJP. Frank and Eileen entered the pre-Associate program in 2003, and Frank became an Associate in 2005. In March of 2015 Frank entered a lasting Covenant with the Congregation.