World Congress of Families Founder Addresses Global Economic Crisis at Oxford University Conference

World Congress of Families Founder Addresses Global Economic Crisis at Oxford University Conference

MEDIA ADVISORY, July 10 /Christian Newswire/ -- World Congress of Families International Secretary and Founder, Dr. Allan C. Carlson, addresses a Conference on "A Distributist View of the Global Economic Crisis" at Oxford University, England on Saturday, July 11.

Carlson will be presenting his speech titled, "Servile World: How 'The Business Government.' 'The Loathsome Thing Called Social Service' and other Distributist Nightmares all Came True."

The conference is being sponsored by the G.K. Chesterton Institute For Faith and Culture from Seton Hall University ( www.shu.edu/catholic-mission/chesterton- index.cfm) and will be held in St. Benet's Hall, Oxford University from 1pm to 6pm on July 11.

Other speakers include: Phillip Blond, U.K. -- Director of the Progressive Conservatism Project for DEMOS, on: "A Distributist View of the Financial Crisis," Philippe Maxence, France -- President of the l'Association des Amis de Chesterton, journalist and writer, on the: "The Paradox of a Crisis: the Distributist response -- France reconnects with the best of its social traditions," and Salvador Antuñano, Spain -- Professor, Universidad dad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, on the: "Concept of Distributism in relation with the anthropological roots of today's socio- economic crisis in Spain."

Responses will be given by: Fr Ian Boyd CSB, Stratford Caldecott, Edward Hadas, and Russell Sparkes. For a complete schedule and reservation information go to: www.shu.edu/catholic- mission/upload/07112009ConferenceSchedule.pdf or email, chestertoninstitute@shu.edu.

Next month, Dr. Carlson will also be a featured speaker and serve as International Secretary of the World Congress of Families V at the Amsterdam RAI, The Netherlands, August 10-12. His speech will be on "How We Got Here: A History of the Natural Family."

Click here to register for World Congress of Families V and to hear Dr. Carlson's speech ( www.worldcongress.org/WCF5/wcf5.reg.mem.htm )

For more information on World Congress of Families - - including World Congress of Families V (Amsterdam, August 10-12, 2009) go to www.worldcongress.org or www.worldcongress.nl. To schedule an interview with Dr. Carlson, or request a copy of his speech contact Larry Jacobs at (815) 222-2490 or media@worldcongress.org.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an international network of pro-family organizations, scholars, leaders and people of goodwill from more than 60 countries that seek to restore the natural family as the fundamental social unit and the 'seedbed' of civil society (as found in the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948). The WCF was founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson and is a project of The Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society in Rockford, Illinois (www.profam.org). To date, there have been four World Congresses of Families -- Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004) and Warsaw, Poland (2007). A fifth World Congress of Families will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 10-12, 2009 ( www.worldcongress.nl and www.worldcongress.org).