Dear Participants in the June 9, 2007 Leadership Conference:

We've set up this site for your convenience (I avoid the designation "Chat Room” because of its unfortunate connotations). But what I want to help facilitate is online conversations of panel members with each other to focus both individual presentations and the entire panel's approach to their facet of leadership issues in the U.S. Church.

As you know from my letter to you of August 10, I would like to have from each of you a short description of your 8-10 minute panel presentation on June 9 (again, this is not about original research but knowledge which all of you already possess in abundance). I would like to have your descriptions by November 1, 2006. Before that date, I would ask that you contact the other members of your panel (see the "Participants" list on our "3 Year Study" website. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me (718-817-4719; massasj@fordham.edu) or the Curran Center's Administrator, Maria Terzulli (718-817-4492; mterzulli@fordham.edu).

Again, my thanks for being the smart and generous people you are.

Mark Massa, S.J.