Catholic Conference Center
1551 Trinity Ln
Hickory, NC 28602

The purpose of the annual leadership retreat is to equip a new company of leaders to defend and promote the traditional Catholic doctrine of creation within their spheres of influence, as the foundation of our Faith and as the only firm foundation for a culture of life.

The Presenters: Fr. Lawrence Carney, Founder and Director of the League of St. Martin and author of The Secret of the Holy Face: The Devotion Destined to Save Society; Fr. John Kennedy, Ph.D., Physiology; Hugh Owen, Founder and Director, Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation; John Wynne, Founder and Director, Restoring Truth Ministries, author of Scriptural Inerrancy and The Fall of Darwin’s  Last Icon; Brother Jonas Houston; Brother Kavan Shannon; Sister Marie Gabrielle; Dr. Thomas H. Seiler, Ph.D., Physics; Mr. Mike Gladieux, Ph.D., Mathematics, author (with Mr. John Wynne) of The Rise and Fall of the Documentary Hypothesis; Mr. Eric Bermingham, author of Creation vs. Evolution;  Dr. Kenneth Stein, Ph.D., Entomology; Dr. Paul Byrne, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics; Mr. Ademar Rakowsky, B.S., Geology, B.S., Physics, and M.S. in Meteorology; Christopher De Vos, author of The Definitive Catholic Guide to Catholic Creationist St. Augustine, Dr. Daniel Geck, Doctor of Chiropractic, Fr. Maximilian Mary Dean.

For more information and to register, please contact Hugh Owen at howen@shentel.net