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The Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan invites you to its the annual Red Mass on Monday, October 28, 2024, at 5:30 pm at the Cathedral of St. Andrew with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
 
This year we are honored to have Michael Matheson Miller, the host of the Moral Imagination Podcast and author of the Moral Imagination Substack Newsletter, as our speaker.  Miller is the Director and Producer of the award winning documentary, Poverty, Inc. and several video series including the PovertyCure Series  The Good Society, and the Gospel of Work. He was the founding director of PovertyCure, which promotes access to justice and entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the developing world.  “The overarching theme” of the Moral Imagination Podcast “is what it means to be a human person and what makes for a meaningful and good life.”
 
The Association will also bestow its St. Thomas More Award on Miller Johnson attorney Bill Fallon.  This is a recognition of Bill’s many years of incredible service to the Grand Rapids community and the Catholic Lawyers Association.
 
Please RSVP today for the dinner.  The dinner is $95 per person.  Please invite guests, spouses, significant others, friends, fellow parishioners, and others in the community, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, lawyer or non-lawyer, to this Mass and dinner.  Dinner will be a chicken entrée, but vegetarian options are available.  Please let us know if you have any special food needs.
 
To RSVP, please email, Nerma Hasovic at [email protected].  Payment can be made by sending a check made out to the “Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan” to Brian A. Mick at ImLaw, PC, 4117 Embassy Dr. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 or through PayPal at this link.
 
Also, if you (or your firm) are interested in sponsoring the Red Mass Dinner, you can do that. For a $500 sponsorship, the sponsoring party and/or their law firm will receive recognition at the event, on our website, and 1 ticket to the Red Mass Dinner.  (You can sponsor through this link.)
 
Finally, we are also looking for free-will donations to help replenish our coffers.  You can donate at this link.
 
Thank you!

The Catholic Lawyers Association is grateful to the following law firms for their sponsorship of the 2018 Red Mass Dinner:

Springstead Bartish Borgula & Lynch, P.L.L.C.

ImLaw 

Drew Cooper & Anding

Rhoades McKee

Varnum Law

Warner Norcross + Judd

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​The annual Red Mass of the Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan is on Monday, October 29, 2018 at 5:30 pm at the Cathedral of St. Andrew. We will gather for Mass with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.  The dinner is $70 per person.  Please invite guests, spouses, significant others, friends, fellow parishioners, and others in the community, whether Catholic or non-Catholic, lawyer or non-lawyer, to this Mass and dinner.
 
We need to get our order into the caterer in the next day, so if you haven’t signed up, do so now!  To RSVP, please email, Andrea Rule at [email protected]. Payment can be made by sending a check made out to the “Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan” to Conor Dugan at Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, 900 Fifth Third Center, 111 Lyon Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503-2487 or through PayPal at this link.
 
At the dinner, we will be honoring David J. Gass of Miller Johnson with the St. Thomas More Award.  Dave is a longtime, dedicated member of the Catholic Lawyers Association.  Please come out to show Dave your support and gratitude for all he has done for the legal community.
 
Our distinguished guest and speaker is Gerard V. Bradley Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School.  Professor Bradley teaches legal ethics, criminal law, and constitutional law.  He is the co-director of the Natural Law Institute and a co-editor of The American Journal of Jurisprudence, an international forum for legal philosophy.  Professor Bradley will be giving a talk titled, “Witnessing to the Truth in a Rootless Age.”  Professor Bradley will be helping us navigate our vocations as Catholic lawyers.  We are very excited to welcome him to Grand Rapids.

The Catholic Lawyers Association is grateful to the following law firms for their sponsorship of the 2017 Red Mass Dinner:
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Rhoades McKee
ImLaw
Mika Meyers
Drew Cooper & Anding
The Law Offices of Sean Patrick Cox
Varnum Law

You are invited to join the Catholic Lawyers of Western Michigan for the annual Red Mass on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:30 pm at the Cathedral of St. Andrew with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. 
 
At this year’s dinner, we will be honoring Judge Jeanine Nemesi LaVille with the St. Thomas More Award.  Judge LaVille is a longtime, dedicated member of the Catholic Lawyers Association.  Please come out to show Judge LaVille your support and gratitude for all she has done for the legal community.
 
Our distinguished guest and speaker will be Father Mike Murray of the Diocese of Lansing.  Father Murray will be speaking on Faith and the Law: Reflections of a Priest and Lawyer.  Father Murray is a lawyer, the uncle of our board member, Hannah Naltner, and has an incredible faith journey to share with us.  Father Murray is a widower who was a permanent deacon.  After his wife passed away he discerned a calling to the priesthood.  We are very excited to welcome him to Grand Rapids.
 
Please RSVP today for the dinner.  The dinner is now $70 per person.  Please invite guests, spouses, significant others, friends, fellow parishioners, and others in the community whether Catholic or non-Catholic to this Mass and dinner.
 
To RSVP, please email, Andrea Rule at [email protected]. Payment can be made by sending a check made out to the “Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan” to Conor Dugan at Warner Norcross & Judd LLP, 900 Fifth Third Center, 111 Lyon Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503-2487 or through PayPal at this link https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YJTYR7L7CPLXU (You can also always donate money to the Catholic Lawyers Association at this link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=B2J6BUNZ84VAE)       
 
Dinner will be a chicken entrée, but vegetarian options are available.  Please let us know if you have any special food needs.
 

We are grateful to the Serra Club, Drew Cooper & Anding, and Rhoades McKee for sponsoring the 2016 Red Mass Dinner.  

You are invited to join the Catholic Lawyers of Western Michigan for the annual Red Mass on Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 5:30 pm at the Cathedral of St. Andrew with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.
 
Our distinguished guest and speaker will be Professor Kevin C. Walsh, an associate professor of law at the University of Richmond.  Professor Walsh will speak to us on contemporary issues in religious liberty law.  He brings a wealth of experience to the question as Professor Walsh represented the Little Sisters of the Poor in their recent religious liberty litigation.  Professor Walsh has an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a M.A. in theology from Notre Dame, and a law degree from Harvard Law School.  After law school he clerked for Judge Paul V. Niemeyer on the Fourth Circuit and then for the late-Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.   He has published on questions of federal jurisdiction and constitutional law in The New York University Law Review and the Stanford Law Review. 
 
Please RSVP today for the dinner.  The dinner is now $70 per person.  Please invite guests, spouses, significant others, friends, fellow parishioners, and others in the community whether Catholic or non-Catholic to this Mass and dinner.  The early registration deadline is Friday, September 23, 2016.  After that the cost will go up to $70.  
 
Dinner will be a chicken entrée, but vegetarian options are available.  Please let us know if you have any special food needs.

You can pay with the PayPal button below.  

You are invited to join the Catholic Lawyers of West Michigan for the annual Red Mass on Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:00 pm at St. Andrew’s Cathedral with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.

Our distinguished guest and speaker will be Sister Veronica Schueler, FSE, a senior staff attorney with Catholic Charities of Houston and one of the Co-Directors of the St. Frances Cabrini Center for Immigrant Legal Assistance..  Sister Veronica will give a talk entitled, “Immigration in America: A Journey of Hope.”  She will speak about the vocation of the Catholic lawyer to serve the immigrant and will share stories of her work in Houston.  This is a timely topic given Pope Francis’ recent visit to the United States and his reminders to us to go bring the Gospel to those on the peripheries. 
 


Please RSVP today for the dinner.  The early registration deadline is Friday, October 2.  The early registration fee is $50 per person and after October 2, the cost will be $55 per person.  Please invite guests, friends, and others in the community whether Catholic or non-Catholic to this talk.

Dinner will be an entrée of Mediterranean Chicken.  Please let us know if you have any special food needs.

You are invited to join the Catholic Lawyers of West Michigan for the annual Red Mass on Monday, October 20, 2014 at 6:00 pm at St. Andrew’s Cathedral with dinner to follow at the Cathedral Square Center at 360 Division Ave, Grand Rapids, MI 49503.

At dinner, we will hear from Bishop David Walkowiak and former federal prosecutor, Sean Maltbie who will be giving a talk entitled, "Convicted:  A Prosecutor's Journey from the Heart of the World to the Sacred Heart."

Please RSVP today for the dinner.  The early registration deadline is Friday, October 10.  The early registration fee is $50 and after October 10, the cost will be $55.

Dinner will be an entrée of Mediterranean Chicken.  Please let us know if you have any special food needs.

Join us Monday, June 16 for Prayer and Lunch with Bishop David Walkowiak, 12th Bishop of Grand Rapids

11:00 am - Midday Prayer - St. Ambrose Chapel at St. Andrew Cathedral
11:30 am - Lunch - Cathedral Square - Remarks by Bishop Walkowiak

The cost is $15 and includes a box lunch.  You can pay via paypal below.  If you have any questions, please e-mail the Catholic Lawyers of Western Michigan by clicking here.