Father Michael G. Ryan

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  www.stjames-cathedral.net/visionstatement.htm - [Cached Version]
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  Father Michael G. Ryan Cathedral Pastor
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  In response, Father Ryan convened a Pastoral Vision Committee to assess our progress as a community of faith and to set a path for the next five years.

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  Father Michael Ryan, now rector of St. James Cathedral and a close aide to then-Seattle Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen, at the time was involved in approving visiting priests.

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  Published on: 10/15/2002    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  "The biggest challenge for the church is to prepare the hearts of our people to have the will to follow this up," says Michael Ryan, a key coordinator of Sow 1 Billion."In terms of logistics, it will not be raising the money to print, and it will not be the distribution.It will be the organization and viability of very, very effective Bible schools.When you consider that we're only a church of 13 million members, this is a complete rethinking and retooling of our resources to respond to this.That's the challenge."
  
  There are currently many Bible correspondence schools functioning around the world, but Ryan says that plans are underway to put a Bible correspondence school in every country.

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  Published on: 10/10/2004    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  Michael L. Ryan, a general vice-president of the world church, who introduced the mission-segment of the council meeting, said that mission is what the church focuses on."This sense of mission is driven by the realization that every person, regardless of circumstances, is of infinite value to God.We have a God-given mission to reach the world with His love.But do we have a plan to reach the world?"
  
  Presiding over the denomination's strategic planning, Ryan connected the strategic plan to mission objectives of the church.He asked: "What are the goals we must work toward?
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  They reflect the way the Adventist Church operates," Ryan emphasized.

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  Published on: 10/14/2003    Last Visited: 6/11/2008  

  Michael Ryan, director of the church's office of Global Mission, is now also a general vice president of the world church, with responsibility for strategic planning.Ryan's election fills the position left open after Leo Ranzolin retired earlier this year.
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  Ryan will continue to oversee the Global Mission activities.

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  Published on: 3/27/2009    Last Visited: 3/27/2009  

  Father Michael G. Ryan was born in Seattle and attended St. Anne's grade school. He graduated from high school at St. Edward's Seminary in Kenmore and received a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy from St. Thomas Seminary in Kenmore. He attended the North American College in Rome, completed his graduate theological studies at the Gregorian University there and, on December 17, 1966, was ordained a priest at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Between 1966 and 1977 Father Ryan served in pastoral roles at St. Patrick's Parish in Tacoma and St. Francis Parish in the San Juan Islands. Later he was appointed Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Seattle and a member of the college faculty at St. Thomas Seminary. He also served as the founding director of the Archdiocese's program for the training of Permanent Deacons. In 1977 Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen appointed him as Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Seattle and Vicar General. He served in those capacities until 1988 when the same Archbishop appointed him Pastor of St. James Cathedral where he continues to serve. In 1994, Father Ryan oversaw the nationally acclaimed renovation and restoration of the Cathedral. Under his leadership, the Cathedral parish has tripled in size in the last ten years, drawing families from more than 180 ZIP codes.
  
  Father Ryan has served on many church governing boards, ncluding the Board of Directors of The National Catholic Reporter, the National Association of Cathedral Pastors, the board of the Institute of Theological Studies at Seattle University, Catholic Community Services of Seattle-King County, the Providence Foundation, and the Church Council of Greater Seattle. His community involvements have included service on the Board of the United Way of King County and of the Noah Sealth L'Arche Community of Seattle. In 1999 he was awarded a Doctoral Degree in Humanities, honoris causa, by Seattle University.
  
  Click here to explore a selection of Father Ryan's homilies and other writings .

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  Published on: 8/2/2006    Last Visited: 5/6/2007  

  Pastor of St. James Cathedral for 18 years, the passion of Mike Ryan touches you not only during Mass at the beautiful, domed 1907 building, but also on the cathedral's extensive Web site, which publishes Ryan's homilies.

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  Published on: 5/15/2009    Last Visited: 6/30/2009  

  Michael G. Ryan, the longtime pastor at St. James Cathedral and former top aide in the Seattle Archdiocese, took the witness stand Thursday, where he described how the local Catholic church once dealt with child-molesting priests: In a "cloak of secrecy" and with the belief that sexual abusers were treatable.
  
  "With the hindsight we have now, we would never have done the things we did," Ryan told jurors. "We made mistakes, for which we are sorry."
  
  But he denied any legal responsibility in the case now pending against the Archdiocese, in which two men abused by their priest allege that the church knew - or should have known - that the priest was a predator.

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  Published on: 5/14/2009    Last Visited: 5/14/2009  

  SEATTLE - Father Michael Ryan, a pastor at St. James Cathedral, admits the Seattle Archdiocese "made mistakes" on how it handled priests accused of sexual abuse during the 1970's, including former Spokane priest Patrick O'Donnell.
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  Ryan made the admission during another round of questioning at a civil trial over the Archdiocese's handling of a priest who molested more than 30 boys.
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  Ryan, who sat on the Priest Personnel Board at the time, and had access to archdiocese records, says he knew of no allegations during or before O'Donnell's time in Seattle.
  
  But he acknowledged, on the stand, the archdiocese poorly handled other priests accused of abuse.  He says the Archdiocese viewed sex abuse at the time as more of a "moral offense" than a crime, and acknowledged the cases were dealt with under a "cloak of secrecy."
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  "I believe it did," Ryan said."I would like to say the archdiocese's counsel stated at the beginning of these proceedings the archdiocese has made some mistakes over time ... And it's a very sad thing that we have, with hindsight we have now and the understanding we have now about child molestation and pedophilia and such, we would never have done the kinds of things we did at that time. But we did not know at that time that this was an aberration that was treatable but not curable."
  
  "We've made mistakes for which we should be sorry and we are sorry," Ryan said.

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  www.fulcrumfoundation.org/page.php?id=78 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/9/2007    Last Visited: 5/9/2007  

  Rev. Michael G. Ryan, Pastor, accepted the award on behalf of St. James Cathedral.

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