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Sources for Background
Alejandro Aguilera-Titus
Assistant Director
Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church
Hispanic Ministry
Native American Catholics
Intercultural Relations
Eccelsial Integration in Culturally Diverse Parishes
Ministry with Young People and Families
Issues and Trends among Hispanics/Latinos
Alejandro Aguilera-Titus is a nationally known speaker and writer on the practical application of theological thought to pastoral ministry and formation. He is an adjunct faculty member at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He holds a master of arts degree in theology from the University of Portland and a bachelor of arts degree in communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. He is co-author of the series Prophets of Hope, St. Mary's Press, and contributing editor to Liturgia y Canción, Oregon Catholic Press. He is a board member of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry and the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors for Hispanic Ministry.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
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J. Kevin
Appleby
Director, Office of Migration and Refugee Policy
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Immigration
Refugees
Catholic Social Teaching and Immigration
Undocumented Persons: Long-Term Solutions
J. Kevin Appleby holds a law degree from the University of Maryland and a master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University. He has spoken immigration issues to local and national groups.
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Sister Janice
Bader
, CPPS
Executive Director
National Religious Retirement Office
Financial Management in Religious Institutes
Sister Janice Bader is a member of the Sisters of Most Previous Blood of O'Fallon, Missouri, and holds a master of business administration degree from Southern Illinois University. She has delivered speeches on topics related to religious orders and retirement, the vow of poverty, ministry subsidies and common goods.
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Sister Suzanne
Bellenoit
Associate Director for Public Policy
Secretariat of Catholic Education
No Child Left Behind and K-12 Catholic Schools
Catholic School Participation in Federally Funded Programs
Parent/Student Handbooks
Grant Research/Proposal Writing
Sister Suzanne Bellenoit is a Sister of St. Joseph of Philadelphia. She is an experienced Catholic school administrator and served as Assistant Superintendent for Government Programs in the Archdiocese of Newark for ten years. She was also the National Director of Private and Religious School Partnerships for Catapult Learning, a private provider of Title I services in the schools. On the local administrative level, Sister Bellenoit was the Principal at Sacred Heart High School in Vineland and Our Lady of the Valley High School in Orange as well as Associate Principal at Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington-all in New Jersey. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in French from Chestnut Hill College, a master of arts degree in English from Montclair State University, and a master of science degree in administration from the University of Notre Dame.
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Reverend J. Brian
Bransfield
Assistant General Secretary for Planning and Executive Director
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Marriage and Family
The Theology of the Body
Christian Anthropology
Human Sexuality
The Virtues
Sacraments
Evangelization and Catechesis
Father J. Brian Bransfield is a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and was ordained in 1994. He began graduate studies in moral theology with a specialty in marriage and family at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute in Rome. He continued studies at the Washington campus, where he received his licentiate degree in sacred theology in 2003 and doctorate in sacred theology in moral theology with a specialization in the theology of marriage and family in 2005. Father Bransfield served on the faculty of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania from 2005-2007. He taught in both the college and theologiate divisions of the seminary as well as the religious studies division, The Catechetical Institute, and The Theological Institute for Priests.
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Anastasia
Brown
Director of Refugee Programs
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Refugee Resettlement
Human Trafficking
Unaccompanied Refugee and Migrant Children
Anastasia Brown has over 16 years of experience with refugee resettlement and is familiar with both overseas and domestic resettlement issues. Her responsibilities include supervision of all services to refugees, victims of trafficking, and unaccompanied alien minors resettled through the Catholic network in the United States. She holds a bachelor of arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Cecilia
Calvo
Project Coordinator of the Environmental Justice Program
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Global Climate Change
Children's Environmental Health
Environmental Policy
Cecilia Calvo received her bachelor's degree in Environmental Science and Spanish from Wellesley College and her master's degree in International Environmental Policy and International Trade and Commercial Policy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She coordinates the Climate Change Health and Justice Initiative and the Children's Health and the Environment Initiative and tracks environmental policy issues affecting vulnerable populations.
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Mary Mencarini
Campbell
Assistant Director for Promotions
Office of National Collections
National Collections
Promotional Campaigns
Mary Mencarini Campbell has nearly two decades of experience at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the last ten years in fundraising and development with an emphasis on national collections. She has presented workshops and keynote addresses on fundraising at diocesan and national conferences and was a contributing author to Living Justice, Proclaiming Peace, published by the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry. She serves on development committees for local Catholic schools and was a member of the Accountability Task Force for the National Catholic Development Conference. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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John
Carr
Executive Director
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Catholic Social Teaching and Mission
Catholics and Faithful Citizenship
Poverty and Economic Justice
Death Penalty
Health Care
International Affairs: Middle East, Debt and Development, War and Peace
Environmental Justice and Climate Change
John Carr serves as Executive Director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the United States Catholic Bishops’ Conference. In this role, he assists the U.S. bishops in sharing Catholic social teaching, advocating on major issues of justice and peace and building the Catholic community’s capacity to act on its social mission. The Department he leads includes the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, which is the Bishops’ anti-poverty program, and is guided by two Bishops’ Committees: Domestic Justice and Human Development and International Justice and Peace
John leads Catholic Bishops’ policy development and advocacy efforts on a wide range of national and global issues. He has assisted the U.S. Bishops in developing a number of major statements, including: Communities of Salt and Light, Sharing Catholic Teaching, Everyday Christianity and Faithful Citizenship. He has represented the U.S. Bishops’ Conference at the Vatican and in the Middle East, Central America, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia and Russia.
For three decades, John has been a leader in Catholic social ministry, serving at the Bishops’ Conference and as Cardinal Hickey’s Secretary of Social Concerns in Washington, DC; as Education Director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and as Legislative Coordinator for the Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis.
Outside the Church, John served as Executive Director of the White House Conference on Families and as Director of the National Committee for Full Employment. He currently serves on the board of Bread for the World, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, the Catholic Health Association and the Law School of the University of St. Thomas.
John is a graduate of St. John Vianney Seminary and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. John received the "Vision Award" from Catholic Charities USA and the Msgr. John Egan Award by the National Pastoral Life Center and was named a "Hunger Hero" by Bread for the World.
John and his wife, Linda, have four children.
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Beverly A.
Carroll
Assistant Director
Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church
Black Catholics
Ethnic and Racial Diversity
Evangelization
HIV/AIDS
Lay Leadership Development
Beverly Carroll holds a master's degree in organization development from Towson State University and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Xavier Institute for Black Catholic Studies, the National Black Catholic Congress Board of Trustees, the National Association of Black Catholic Administrators and the Provincial African American Committee of the Holy Name Province of Franciscans. She is author of The Cypress Will Grow, a video and resource book for evangelization, and producer of several videos, including If Rivers Could Speak and Unraveling the Evangelical Cord. She has received numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from Siena College, the Archdiocese of Baltimore's Martin Luther King Award for work in civil rights, and the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority's Woman of the Year Award for Community Service. She was the Archdiocese of Baltimore's Ambassador to the Eucharistic Congress in Nairobi, Kenya and led a delegation of African American women to an international conference in South Africa. She is the mother of two children.
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Don
Clemmer
Assistant Director
Media Relations
Papal Succession
Vatican II
Don Clemmer holds a BA in English and Communications from the University of Saint Francis in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He served for three years as Assistant Editor of Today’s Catholic newspaper in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, where his writing earned recognition from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada. He has also freelanced for local and national print media and worked as a reporter for Indiana Public Radio.
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Stephen M.
Colecchi
Director, Office of International Justice and Peace
Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development
Arms Control and Security
Ethics of War and Peace
Iraq
Middle East
Nuclear Weapons
Stephen Colecchi holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and religious studies from Holy Cross College, a master of arts in religion from Yale University, and a doctor of ministry degree from St. Mary's Seminary and University. Mr. Colecchi has chaired the boards of Refugee and Immigration Services, the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy, and Social Services of the City of Richmond. Among other honors, he has received the Bene Merenti Medal from Pope John Paul II. Colecchi has written numerous articles on Catholic Social Teaching, social justice, political responsibility, and the infusion of Catholic Social Teaching into Christian education programs. He authored a Leader's Guide to Sharing Catholic Social Teaching and In the Footsteps of Jesus: Parish Resource Manual.
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Rev. Allan Figueroa
Deck,
SJ
Executive Director
Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church
Faith and Culture
Hispanic Ministry, Spirituality, and Theology
Hispanic Popular Catholicism
The Movement of Hispanics to Other Faiths
Pastoral Theology
Father Allan Deck is a Jesuit priest of the California Province and holds a doctorate in Latin American Studies from Saint Louis University and a doctor of sacred theology degree in missiology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has served as a parish priest and director of Hispanic ministry in the Diocese of Orange, California. He taught theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and Loyola Marymount University. He was a cofounder and first president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS) as well as of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry (NCCHM). In 1997 he founded the Loyola Institute for Spirituality in Orange and served as its executive director for 10 years. Father Deck has written or edited six books and is a frequent contributor to America magazine.
LANGUAGES: Portuguese, Spanish
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Deirdre
Dessingue
Associate General Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Restrictions on Church Political Activity
Tax Exempt Status of Churches
Tax Status of Priests and Members of Religious Institutes
Deirdre Dessingue received both her undergraduate and law degrees from the Catholic University of America. From 2001-2005, she served as a member of the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT). For ten years, she served as co-chair of the Religious Organizations Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Tax Section's Exempt Organizations Committee. Ms. Dessingue is a frequent speaker and writer on topics relating to the tax exemption of churches and religious organizations. She is the author of Politics and the Pulpit: A Guide to the Internal Revenue Code Restrictions on the Political Activity of Religious Organizations, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2004). In recent speeches she has addressed such issues as religious organizations and fundraising, federal tax code restrictions on church political activity, and federal tax developments for religious organizations.
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Richard M.
Doerflinger
Associate Director
Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
Assisted Suicide
Bioethics
Euthanasia
Human Cloning
Pro-Life Legislation
Stem Cell Research
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment
Richard Doerflinger holds a master of arts in divinity degree from the University of Chicago and has pursued doctoral studies at the University of Chicago and The Catholic University of America. He is an adjunct fellow in bioethics and public policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center. He frequently writes and speaks on euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryo experimentation and reproductive technologies. He has been published in such periodicals as National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Hastings Center Report, Linacre Quarterly, and Duquesne Law Review. He is married and the father of four children.
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Bruce
Egnew
Associate General Secretary
USCCB
Church Finances
Church Real Estate
Church Investments
Diocesan Operations
Financial Management
National Collections
Risk Management and Insurance Issues
Stewardship
Bruce Egnew is a Certified Public Accountant and served as Chief Financial Officer for the Archdiocese of San Francisco for nineteen years. He was founding president of The Ordinary Mutual, a risk retention group created and owned by twelve dioceses in the western United States. He was a member of the board and treasurer of St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California. He has been an active member of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference since 1974. He was awarded the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Medal. He and his wife have four adult children.
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Beth
Englander
Director, Special Programs (Childrens Services, BRYCS, Anti-Trafficking Services)
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Child Abuse/ Neglect, Protection and Treatment
Permanent planning
Adoption
Transnational migration of children
Trafficking
State governance
Beth Englander has more than 30 years of local, state and national child welfare experience. She held positions including state administrator of Florida’s child welfare program; state program and policy manager for Oregon’s child protection, Systems of Care, guardianship, and adoption programs; and multi-county administrator for child welfare and juvenile corrections programs. Her past work also includes national project management of a program monitoring state child welfare programs for HHS-ACF. Englander has cross-program experience with migrant, trafficked, refugee, and unaccompanied children in public foster care and recently received national recognition for her work to implement the Hague Convention on transnational adoption of children in Oregon foster care. She has numerous commendations and has served on local, state and national boards. Raised primarily in other countries, Englander holds a B.S. from the University of Maryland School of Journalism and completed graduate studies in organizational policy and management at the University of Oregon. Englander is the mother of two adult sons.
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Virginia L.
Farris
Foreign Policy Advisor for Eurasia and Human Rights, Office of International Justice and Peace
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
East and Southeast Asia
South Asia, particularly Pakistan
Kosovo
Water for the Poor
Religious Liberty
Torture
Virginia Loo Farris worked in public affairs throughout her extended foreign service career at the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Information Agency, focusing primarily on East and Southeast Asia. She also had tours in Africa and Washington. She served as a Congressional Fellow and as USIA Advisor to the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command. She has a master of science degree in national security studies from the National Defense University, a master of arts degree in Chinese studies from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor of arts degree in social sciences from Michigan State University.
LANGUAGES: French, Thai
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David
Felber
Associate Director for Development
USCCB Publishing
Project Management
Writing and Editing
Graphic Design and Print Purchasing
Publishing Software
Promotional Campaigns
David Felber holds a master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor's degree in English from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). He has twenty years of publishing experience, including twelve years at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is a member of the Catholic Book Publishers Association and the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network. He is married and has two children.
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John
Galotta
Executive Director
Office of Information Technology
Networking Computers
John Galotta holds a degree from Control Data Institute Computer Systems. He has over 20 years of experience and extensive knowledge on setting up and networking information systems. He is married and the father of three children.
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Sheila
Garcia
Associate Director
Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth
National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage
Collaborative Ministry-Clergy and Laity Working Together
Domestic Violence
Women's Roles in the Church
Sheila Garcia holds a bachelor's degree from Ohio University and a master's degree in theology from the DeSales School of Theology. She has written and spoken on topics related to marriage, domestic violence, and women, and has written for such publications as Ligourian, Spiritual Life, and Catholic Woman. She is married and the mother of two adult sons.
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Matthew G.
Gorman
Senior Systems Analyst
Office of Information Technology
Data Architecture
Database Applications
Software Development
Matthew Gorman holds a master's of science in Information Systems from University of Maryland Baltimore County with an undergraduate degree from St. Bonaventure University. He has experience developing database software applications for both government and private industry.
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Thomas
Grenchik
Executive Director
Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
General Pro-Life Issues
Thomas Grenchik was the founding director of the Pro-Life Office for the Archdiocese of Washington, where he served for sixteen years. He was trained as an architect and builder and graduated from the University of Maryland where he majored in architecture. He has also studied at the National Catholic Bioethics Center and is currently pursuing a certification program in Health Care Ethics.
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Katherine
Grincewich
Associate General Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Entertainment Law
Telecommunications
Intellectual Property
Broadcast Law
Katherine Grincewich holds a law degree from The Catholic University of America and is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Federal Communications Bar Association. She has written and spoken on legal and policy issues regarding telecommunications and intellectual property.
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Regina
Grunert
Manager
Office of Human Resources
Employee Assistance Programs
Employee Compensation
Employee Group Benefits
Health Benefits
Regina Grunert holds a master of science degree in Employee Assistance Counseling from Trinity College, Washington. She is a member of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators and the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Paul K.
Henderson
Director, USCCB Publishing
USCCB Publishing
Event Planning
General Parish Ministry
Group Facilitation
Marketing and Promotional Campaigns
Strategic and Pastoral Planning, Organizational Development
Publishing of Church Resources
Paul Henderson holds master of theology and master of liturgy degrees from The Catholic University of America, a master of science degree in management from the University of Maryland, and has been honored for his work in youth ministry. He has been published in the Catholic press and is a member of the Catholic Book Publishing Association of America and the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association.
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Stephen R.
Hilbert
Foreign Policy Advisor for Africa and Global Development
Office for International Justice and Peace
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
African Politics
Challenges, Problems and Successes of Development
Conflict
Economics
Peacebuilding in Africa
Rising Importance of Africa to the United States
Stephen Hilbert holds a bachelor's degree in Russian studies from Haverford College and a master's degree in International Affairs-Development Studies from Columbia University. From 1977-1980, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon, Central Africa. From 1983-2007 he worked with Catholic Relief Services, with nineteen years in Africa, two years in India and three years at CRS Headquarters.
LANGUAGES: French
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Rev. Richard B.
Hilgartner
Associate Director
Secretariat of Divine Worship
General Instruction of the Roman Missal
Norms for Distributing Holy Communion
American Adaptations
Missale Romanum and the Process of Liturgical Translation
Sacramental Theology
Initiation (RCIA, Infant Baptism, Adolescent Confirmation)
Eucharist
Preaching/Homiletics
Liturgical Music
Father Richard Hilgartner holds a bachelor of science degree (business and finance) from Mount St. Mary's College (now University) in Emmitsburg, Maryland; a master of divinity degree and bachelor of sacred theology degree from St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore; and a licentiate degree in Sacred Theology from the Pontificio Ateneo Sant'Anselmo, Rome, Italy. Father Hilgartner has served in parish ministry and campus ministry, and has taught theology and homiletics.
LANGUAGES: Italian
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Linda
Hunt
Executive Director
Office of Human Resources
Employee Benefits and Compensation
Employee Relations
Policies and Procedures
Recruitment/Retention
Linda Hunt holds a master's degree in business from Johns Hopkins University and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators (NACPA). She is a former NACPA board member and a former member of the Prince George's County (Maryland) Human Relations Commission. She is married and has two children.
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Adriana D.
Vasquez
Catechism Specialist
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Marriage and Family
Christian Anthropology
Sacraments
Evangelization and Catechesis
Adriana D. Vasquez holds a Masters in Theological Studies in marriage and family from the Washington session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute. She coordinated Hispanic marriage preparation and pro-life activities in the Family Life/Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of New York before returning to her home in the D.C. area in 2007 to pursue a doctorate in systematic and moral theology at the Catholic University of America. Her areas of interest include the complementarity of man and woman, and the sacramentality of marriage from the Latin and Eastern Catholic traditions. She is currently working as the Catechism Specialist for the Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis, while continuing doctoral work and teaching Hispanic marriage preparation with the Archdiocese of Washington.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
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Msgr. Ronny E.
Jenkins
Associate General Secretary
USCCB
Canon Law
Planning
Msgr. Ronny E. Jenkins holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Dallas. He earned his baccalaureate and licentiate in sacred theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was awarded a licentiate and doctorate of canon law at The Catholic University of America. Msgr. Jenkins has served as a judicial vicar in the Diocese of Austin, as a lecturer in canon law at Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, and as an assistant professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America. He was a consultant to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Canonical Affairs and currently consults on the Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People. He is currently an adjunct professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America as well as a member of several canon law societies. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, including The Jurist and Periodica, and he is co-editor of the Canon Law Society of America's Advisory Opinions.
LANGUAGES: French, German
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Teresa M.
Kettelkamp
Executive Director
Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
Child Sexual Abuse
Youth Protection
Teresa M. Kettelkamp is a graduate of Quincy University, Quincy, Illinois, where she obtained a degree in political science. She retired from Illinois State Police (ISP) after a 29 year career in which she was the first female to attain the rank of Colonel. Kettelkamp began her law enforcement career investigating white collar and public corruption cases. During her career, she was also responsible for the functional supervision of specially trained agents who conducted statewide investigations involving missing and/or sexually exploited children. Upon her retirement, Kettelkamp headed the ISP's Division of Forensic Services. She retired from the ISP to work for The Gavin Group, Inc., conducting the first annual compliance audits of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. Kettelkamp is the mother of two children.
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Jim
Lackey
General News Editor
Catholic News Service
Catholic Press
The Church & the Internet
Jim Lackey holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Marquette University and has worked in the Catholic press for 34 years, including 29 years at Catholic News Service. He is a member of the Catholic Press Association. He is married and the father of one child.
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Andrew
Lichtenwalner
Program Specialist to the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Defense of Marriage (doctrine and catechesis)
Ecclesial Bridal Imagery
Evangelization and Catechesis
Andrew W. Lichtenwalner is a married layman and Ph.D. candidate in Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America. His dissertation is on ecclesial bridal imagery in 20th century magisterial teaching. He received his M.A. in theology from the University of Dallas and his A.B. in both religion and philosophy from the University of Georgia. Andrew has taught theology at the university level and has served as a catechist at the parish level. Previous to serving as staff to the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage, Andrew was Catechism Specialist for three years.
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Msgr. David
Malloy
General Secretary
USCCB
Canon Law
Msgr. David Malloy is a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. He has a licenciate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (the Angelicum) in Rome as well as a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University. He speaks Italian, French, and Spanish.
LANGUAGES: French, Italian, Spanish
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Jeannine
Marino
Program Specialist
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Canon Law
Causes of Canonization
RCIA
Jeannine Marino holds a bachelors degree from the Catholic University of American in religion and history and a masters degree from Boston College in Theology. She also possesses a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic University of America. She has served as a vice-postulator for a cause of canonization, as a director of religious education for a large urban parish, a high school campus minister, and has several years experience as a parish leader of RCIA.
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Patrick
Markey
Executive Director
Office of National Collections
Promotional and Marketing Campaigns
Leadership Formation
Event Organization and Planning
Book Publishing
Patrick Markey holds an executive master of business administration degree from Loyola College in Baltimore and a bachelor's degree in business administration from Pace University in New York City. He also has done other graduate studies in theology at Fordham University in the Bronx. He served as a regional director of the Focolare Movement and has also been involved in leadership development and youth and adult faith formation. He worked seventeen years in Catholic publishing, including five years as publisher of New City Press and four years as Associate Director of Sales and Marketing for USCCB Publishing.
LANGUAGES: Italian
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Rev. James
Massa
, PhD
Executive Director
Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
Anglican
Baptist
Benedict XVI
Catholic-Jewish Relations
Ecclesiology
Ecumenism
Eucharist
Evangelical
Interreligious Dialogue
Lutheran
Orthodox
Father James Massa, a priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, completed his undergraduate work at Boston College and the University of Durham in England. He pursued studies in theology at Yale Divinity School and doctoral studies at Fordham University, where he wrote on the ecclesiology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. He has published articles and book reviews on topics related to Christology, church and culture, and ecumenism, and is a member of the North American Academy of Ecumenists, the National Association of Ecumenical Officers, the Society of Catholic Liturgy, and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He currently serves on the Board of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University and lectures around the country on topics related to ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.
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H. Richard
McCord
Executive Director
Secretariat of Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth
Changing American Family
Collaborative Leadership
Lay Ministries and Church Leadership
Marriage and Same-Sex Unions
Marriage Preparation
Role of Laity in the Church and in the World
Strengthening Marriage: A Public and Private Challenge
H. Richard McCord holds a master's degree from Princeton Theological Seminary and a doctorate in education from the University of Maryland. He is the recipient of the Gaudium et Spes Award from the National Association for Lay Ministry in 2000 and the National Recognition Award from the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers in 1993. He has written extensively in Catholic periodicals and contributed chapters to Vatican II: The Continuing Agenda, Families and Communities in Partnership, Using a Family Perspective, and Why We Serve. He is married and father of one child.
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Ralph
McCloud
Director, Catholic Campaign for Human Development
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Catholic Social Teaching
Peace
Community Organizing
Rehabilitation and Restoration
Capital Punishment
Poverty and Its Effects
Homelessness
Race and Its Effects on Poverty
Ralph McCloud attended Paul Quinn College and did summer studies in Catholic Social Thought at the University of Notre Dame. He directed the Office of Justice and Peace, African American Ministry, and Catholic Relief Services in the Diocese of Ft. Worth, Texas, where he was the city's former Vice Mayor and a city council member.
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Mary
McClusky
Special Projects Coordinator
Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
National Prayer Vigil for Life
March for Life
People of Life pro-life action campaign of the USCCB
Abortion and Youth
Abortion in the Black Community
Mary Jaminet holds a bachelor of arts in communications (radio/TV) and a human life studies minor from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. She has worked at several pro-life and public interest groups in grassroots development, media, public education campaigns, and fundraising.
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Barbara Humphrey
McCrabb
Assistant Director for Higher Education
Secretariat of Catholic Education
Education
Experiential Learning
Educating for Peace and Justice
Student Leadership Development
Barbara Humphrey McCrabb holds a master of divinity degree from Washington Theological Union and a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministry from St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida. She graduated cum laude from Kent State University with a bachelor of fine and professional arts degree. She has served in campus ministry for more than twenty years. Service and spirituality are her passions. She worked to engage campus communities in service, reflection and prayer. In 2000 she received the Charles Forsythe Award from the Catholic Campus Ministry Association for contributions to Campus Ministry. McCrabb and her husband Don, have three sons: Andrew, Jacob and Martin.
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Deirdre
McQuade
Assistant Director of Policy and Communications
Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
Abortion
Post-Abortion Healing
Effective Pro-Life Messaging
Scriptural Roots of the Gospel of Life
The New Feminism
The Second Look Project
Deirdre McQuade is the primary spokesperson on abortion and related life issues for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. She also directs the Second Look Project and its multi-city ad campaigns. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr College, as well as a master of arts degree in philosophy and a master of divinity degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame. She counseled at a pregnancy care center in South Bend and, in 2003, served as National Program Director at Feminists for Life. She has appeared on television, on radio, in online debates and in national print media. Recent speeches include Empathy, Dignity & Speaking Truth to Power; Seeds of Justice: Defending Life from Womb to Tomb; Roe Reality Check: Taking a Second Look at Abortion; and Imitating Jesus in Pro-Life Conversations.
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Nyssa
Parampil
Assistant Director of Anti-Trafficking Services
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Trafficking
Nyssa Parampil is a licensed clinical social worker and an expert in the field of human trafficking as well as in social service provision. Over the past several years, she has worked and been involved with immigrant and migrant populations in both rural and urban settings. She holds a master of social work degree from Boston College.
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Jeffrey Hunter
Moon
Solicitor
Office of General Counsel
Constitutional Questions
First Amendment
Litigation
Jeffrey Moon graduated from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, holds a law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, is a member of the bars of Ohio and the District of Columbia, and has been admitted to practice before numerous federal trial and appellate courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and has held a broad range of governmental and corporate legal positions. He has written for the Catholic Lawyer and his speeches include, "How to Deal with Internal Investigations: The Insiders' Perspective." He is married and father of two children.
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Michael F.
Moses
Associate General Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Assisted Suicide
Pro-life Issues
Michael F. Moses holds a law degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He writes on legal issues such as abortion and assisted suicide. He is married and the father of two children.
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Cecile
Motus
Assistant Director
Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church
Migration
Cross-cultural Education
Pastoral Outreach to Immigrants and Refugees
Cecile Motus spent more than twenty five years in Asia as the Asia Regional Liaison Officer for the International Catholic Migration Commission and as Director of Adult Language and Culture Program for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Vietnamese First Asylum Camp in the Philippines. In the United States, she served as the Interim Director and as Ethnic Ministries Coordinator for the MRS Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. Ms. Motus holds a bachelor of arts in education from the San Carlos University in Cebu, Philippines, and a master of arts degree in teaching English as a second language from the University of Hawaii and the East-West International Center in Honolulu. She authored a set of Hiligaynon language books published by the University of Hawaii for use in training Peace Corps volunteers. She has also written articles published in such magazines as Preach. She is a board member of the Philippine Medical Mission Project of St. Charles Borromeo, an advisor to the Filipino Family Fund, and an advisor for the National Asian and Pacific Catholic Organization.
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Mar
Munoz-Visoso
Assistant Director
Office of Media Relations
Department of Communications
Cultural Diversity in the Church
English and Spanish Media Relations
Evangelization and Catechesis
Hispanic/Latino Issues
Divine Worship, Hispanics & Liturgy
Immigration and Refugee Issues
Women, Marriage, and Family Life Issues
Maria del Mar Munoz-Visoso holds a bachelor of arts in communications with a major in journalism from Centro Escuela Universitaria San Pablo in Valencia, Spain, and a master of theological studies degree from the Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. She has sixteen years of experience as an editor and journalist and twelve years of experience in Hispanic ministry, with emphasis on leadership development, training, and organizing. She has worked in radio and the written press and was the founding editor of El Pueblo Católico, a Catholic Spanish-language diocesan newspaper. She co-founded and was executive director of Centro San Juan Diego, a pastoral institute and adult education center for Hispanics in Denver. She and her husband Rafael have three children.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
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Carlos
Ortiz Miranda
Associate General Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Immigration Law
Carlos Ortiz Miranda holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Puerto Rico, a juris doctor degree from the Antioch School of Law, and a master's degree in international and comparative law from Georgetown University. He is a distinguished lecturer at the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. He specializes in and has written extensively on immigration law, especially for religious workers. He is currently Chair of the Committee on Religious Workers of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Ortiz is a member of the District of Columbia and New York State Bar Associations.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
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Helen
Osman
Secretary of Communications
Department of Communications
Use of 'New Media'
Catholic Publications
Media Literacy
Marriage and Family Life
Young Adults
Helen Osman holds a degree in communications from Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, and has served in church communications for more than 25 years, beginning at the Catholic Spirit, the newspaper of the Diocese of Austin, Texas. She was named Catholic Spirit editor in 1990 and added responsibilities as diocesan communications director in 1995. She was named secretary of communications for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in August 2007. Mrs. Osman served three terms on the board of directors of the Catholic Press Association (CPA) of the United States and Canada, and held CPA positions as secretary and president. She is married and has four children.
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Anthony R.
Picarello, Jr.
General Counsel
Office of General Counsel
Church Legal Affairs
Religious Freedom
Anthony Picarello is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School, where he served on the Law Review. He earned his master's degree in religious studies from the University of Chicago, and his bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, in social anthropology and comparative religion from Harvard University. Before joining the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, he worked at The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty for seven years, at the law firm of Covington & Burling for three-and-a-half years, and as a federal district court clerk for one year. Picarello specializes in the First Amendment and other laws that protect religious freedom.
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Marie A.
Powell
Executive Director
Secretariat of Catholic Education
Bishops Statement Renewing Our Commitment to Catholic Elementary & Secondary Schools in the Third Millennium
Parental Choice in Education
Federal Education Legislation Affecting Catholic Schools
Empowering Parents to Advocate Public Policy
Marie Powell holds a bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, from the College of St. Mary, Omaha, and a master of arts degree from Georgetown University. She has been involved in K-12 education in Catholic schools as a parent, teacher, administrator, diocesan superintendent of schools, chair of a diocesan school board, and assistant secretary for parental advocacy for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Jill
Rauh
Outreach Coordinator
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Youth and Social Justice
Youth Ministry
Young Adult Ministry
Catholic Social Teaching
Jill Rauh holds and a master of arts degree in theology with an emphasis on moral theology/social ethics from Washington Theological Union, a master of arts degree in international affairs with an emphasis on U.S. foreign policy from the George Washington University, and a bachelor of arts degree in theology and communication from Marquette University. Her professional and volunteer work has focused on social justice and the intersection of Catholic social teaching and youth and young adult ministry. Jill previously staffed the Education for Justice project at Center of Concern and also worked with Latino youth and served as an international volunteer in Ecuador, South America.
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Rev. Ronald G.
Roberson
, CSP
Associate Director
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs
The Assyrian Church of the East
Catholic-Orthodox Dialogue
Christian Churches Together in the USA
Christian Unity
Churches in Eastern Europe
Eastern Orthodox Churches
Healing the Histories of East and West
The Oriental Orthodox Churches
Polish National Catholic Church
The Episcopal Church
Father Ronald Roberson is a Paulist Father and holds a doctorate in Oriental Ecclesiastical Sciences from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome. He has written extensively on ecumenism and Catholic-Orthodox relations in scholarly journals and frequently speaks on related topics. He lectures occasionally at the State Department's National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Arlington, Virginia. He speaks Italian fluently and reads French and Romanian. Fr Roberson is also a member of the international dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
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Kathy A.
Saile
Director, Office of Domestic Social Development
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Health Care
Death Penalty
Domestic Poverty
Faith and Community Based Health and Human Services
Kathy A. Saile holds a bachelor's degree in organizational communications from Ohio University and a master's degree in social work from Arizona State University. Previously, Ms. Saile directed the Office of Peace and Justice in the Diocese of Phoenix, served as a Loaned Executive to the social policy office at Catholic Charities USA, coordinated social justice and outreach ministries for the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, and was associate director of public policy for Lutheran Services in America. She is the author of a book on public policy and grassroots advocacy.
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Brother Henry M.
Sammon
, FMS
Associate Director
National Religious Retirement Office
Basic, Supplemental, and Special Assistance Grant Applications
Financial Management in Religious Institutes
Canonical Issues in the Areas of Consecrated Life and Temporal Goods
Brother Henry M. Sammon, FMS is a member of the United States Province of the Marist Brothers of the Schools, Bayonne, New Jersey, and holds a licentiate in canon law from The Catholic University of America as well as a master's degree in administration, with a concentration in financial analysis, from the University of Notre Dame. He is a consultant for the National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes (NATRI) in the area of financial forecasting (TRENDS) and does consulting work in the areas of financial management and canonical affairs for the National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO).
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Todd
Scribner
Education Outreach Coordinator
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Catholic Social Teaching
Immigration
Refugees
Human Trafficking
Todd Scribner holds a master's degree in religious studies from The Catholic University of America and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the same institution. The focus of his studies concentrates on the intersection of Catholic Social Teaching and U.S. political life.
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Tony
Spence
Director and Editor-in-Chief
Catholic News Service
Catholic News and Current Events
Catholic Press in the United States and Canada
Religious Newspaper and Magazine Publishing
Tony Spence attended Vanderbilt University and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee. He has worked in the Catholic press and media in various capacities in Tennessee and Washington, D.C. He also was a communication and development executive at Vanderbilt University. He is a past president of the Catholic Press Association, past member of the Catholic Communication Campaign advisory board, and a former consultant to the Committee for Communications of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has received numerous awards and honors for his writing, publishing, and community leadership. He is a member of the Catholic Press Association, the finance commission of the International Catholic Union of the Press, and Sigma Delta Chi. He serves on a number of boards dealing with health care, the arts and charitable services.
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Mary Elizabeth
Sperry
Associate Director, Permissions and Bible Utilization
USCCB Publishing
Department of Communications
Permissions/Copyright
New American Bible Promotion
Pastoral Usage of USCCB Publications
Mary Elizabeth Sperry holds a master of arts degree in liturgical studies from The Catholic University of America, and a master of arts in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an associate member of the Catholic Biblical Association and of the Society of Biblical Literature.
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Michael
Steier
Assistant Director
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Adult Faith Formation
Leadership Formation for Parish Catechetical Leaders
Parish Ministry Formation
Michael Steier holds a doctor of ministry degree from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore and a master of divinity degree and master of arts degree in theology from St. John Provincial Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan. He is a member of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, the National Catholic Educational Association, the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, and the Religious Education Association. He is married and has four children.
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David J.
Suley
Director, Catholic Home Missions
Office of National Collections
Catholic Missions in the United States
The Church in Rural America
Global Missions
Lay Missionaries
Sister Parish Relationships to Global and Home Missions
David Suley holds a doctorate in ministry from Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, D.C., as well as a master of theology degree and a master of divinity degree from St. Patrick's Seminary, Menlo Park, California. He served as a lay missionary in Malawi, Central Africa, and is a member of the U.S. Catholic Mission Association. He has nearly a decade of experience with the pastoral and financial challenges the Church faces in
Alaska, the Rocky Mountain states, the Southwest, the Deep South, Appalachia, and the island dioceses in the Pacific and Caribbean. He is an adjunct faculty member in the master of arts in pastoral leadership program, Chaminade University, Honolulu. He is married and the father of two children.
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Dr. Jem
Sullivan
Acting Interim Director and Coordinator of Assessment
Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis
Adult Faith Formation
Catechesis
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Evangelization
Second Vatican Council documents
Christian art
Dr. Jem Sullivan holds a doctorate from the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Since 1999 she has served as an adjunct faculty member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, teaching graduate courses. She has also instructed undergraduate courses at Catholic University and high school religion. Her teaching and writing focuses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, adult faith formation, catechesis, evangelization, the documents of the Second Vatican Council, and Christian art. Jem is author of a Study Guide to the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults from Our Sunday Visitor and a study guide to Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi. She is a docent at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC where she leads tours of the museum’s masterpiece collections. She and her husband have one son.
LANGUAGES: French
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Susan Stevenot
Sullivan
Associate Director for Education and Outreach
Department of Justice, Peace, and Human Development
Catholic Social Teaching
Poverty and Justice
Parish Social Ministry
Faith and Advocacy at Home and Abroad
Spirituality of Justice
Susan Stevenot Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Science from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, and master’s in Theological Studies from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. Before joining the USCCB in 2010, Sullivan served the Archdiocese of Atlanta as archdiocesan director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Justice for Immigrants, Catholic Relief Services and other initiatives, including a significant role in interfaith/ecumenical work. She is a former chair of the Parish Social Ministry Section of Catholic Charities USA.
Sullivan previously did regional justice and communications work for the Glenmary Home Missioners family of organizations and supported the formation and ministry of more than 2,000 members/volunteers of the Atlanta Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. She also served on the editorial staff of the weekly newspapers of the Archdioceses of Cincinnati and Atlanta. Sullivan’s work has appeared in several national Catholic publications and has been recognized by the Catholic Press Association.
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Sister Doris Mary
Turek
, SSND
Staff Advisor
Secretariat of Divine Worship
Liturgy and Culture
Multicultural Liturgical Celebrations
Hispanic Devotional Practices
Developing Liturgical Leadership in Underrepresented Groups
Introduction to the Roman Missal
American Adaptations
Norms for Distributing Communion
Sister Doris Mary Turek is a School Sister of Notre Dame. She holds a master's degree in education from Arcadia University and a juris doctor degree from the Beasley School of Law of Temple University. She is Adjunct Professor at The Catholic University of America and the Washington Theological Union. She is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the National Hispanic Institute for Liturgy, and the American Bar Association.
LANGUAGES: Spanish
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Sister Mary Ann
Walsh
, RSM
Director of Media Relations
Department of Communications
The Church and the Media
Media Relations
The Media and Rome
The Papacy of John Paul II
Religious Life
Vocations
Sister Mary Ann Walsh is a member of the Northeast Community of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. She holds a master's degree in English from the College of St. Rose and a master's degree in pastoral counseling from Loyola College of Maryland. She has prepared media relations programs, spoken on media topics, and written for numerous publications including America, Editor & Publisher, The Washington Post, and USA Today. She also was producer of the award-winning video, Five Extraordinary Days, and editor of books that include the award-winning John Paul II: A Light for the World and From John Paul II to Benedict XVI: An Inside Look at the End of an Era, the Beginning of a New One, and the Future of the Church. She has been honored for her work by several groups, including the New York State Bar Association, the New York Press Association, the Colorado Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America, the Catholic Press Association, and the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals. She is a member of the Society for Professional Journalists, the American Counseling Association, the Catholic Press Association, the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals, and the International Association of Business Communicators.
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Rev. Thomas
Weinandy
, OFM, Cap.
Executive Director
Secretariat of Doctrine
History of Christology
History of Trinitarian Theology
Patristics, Medieval and Contemporary
Philosophical Notions of God
Father Thomas G. Weinandy is a member of the Capuchin order. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from St. Fidelis College in Herman, Pennsylvania, a master's degree in systematic theology from Washington Theological Union, and a doctorate in historical theology from King's College, University of London. Father Weinandy is a member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the Catholic Theological Society of Great Britain, the North American Patristics Society, and the Association Internationale D'tudes Patristiques. He is the author of Does God Suffer?; Jesus the Christ; Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation; The Father's Spirit of Sonship: Reconceiving the Trinity; and Be Reconciled to God: A Family Guide to Confession. Father Weinandy has also published scholarly articles in such journals as The Thomist, New Blackfriars, Communio, A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, and the International Journal of Systematic Theology. His popular articles include those written for New Covenant, National Catholic Register, Pastoral Life, Canadian Catholic Review, and New Oxford Review.
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Susan E.
Wills
Assistant Director for Education and Outreach
Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities
Respect Life Program
Abortion
Abortion Aftermath and Post-Abortion Ministry
RU-486
Contraception
Emergency Contraception
Susan E. Wills is an attorney with a juris doctor cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law and a master's degree in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington D.C., where she was awarded the Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize for the highest academic average in the Master of Laws Program. At the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, she has since overseen the annual Respect Life Program materials, the newsletter Life Insight, and the monthly Word of Life series-a liturgical resource. Ms. Wills has written for Catholic periodicals (The Priest, America, The National Catholic Register, and the diocesan press) as well as for secular publications such as National Review and The Washington Times. She also has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy of The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law. She has been a guest on Catholic, Christian, and secular TV and radio programs. Susan and her husband have six children.
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Nancy
Wisdo
General Secretariat
Associate General Secretary
Advocacy
Public Policy
Catholic Social Teaching
Strategic planning
Nancy Wisdo is a graduate of Bloomsburg State University, where she majored in sociology and social work. She completed the course requirements for a graduate degree in community psychology at Pennsylvania State University and has a Licentiate in Canon Law from the Catholic University of America. She is a past member of Catholic Charities USA Social Policy Committee and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican.
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Johnny
Young
Executive Director
Department of Migration and Refugee Services
Immigration
Migrants
Trafficked Persons
Undocumented Minor and Refugee Children in U.S. Custody
International Relations
Ambassador Young holds a bachelor of science, cum laude, from Temple University. He was a four-time American Ambassador and holds the rank of Career Ambassador. His Foreign Service duty included service in eleven countries: five in Africa, three in the Middle East, two in Europe, and one in the Caribbean.
LANGUAGES: French,
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