Summer faculty  2010:

Dr. Lynne Boughton holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a visiting lecturer a the Liturgical Institute and a contributor to Antiphon, Westminster Theological Journal, Church History, Journal of Religion, Journal of the Pontifical Academy of Theology, Tyndale Bulletin, Irish Theological Quarterly, The Thomist, and Revue biblique, in which she recently published “The Priestly Perspective of the Johannine Trial Narratives: Why The Gospel of John is Neither Anti-Jewish Nor Anti-Temple.”

Mr. Christopher Carstens holds a B.A. from the Oratory of St. Philip in Toronto, and M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Dallas and a M.A. (Liturgical Studies) from The Liturgical Institute. He is currently the Coordinator of Pontifical Liturgies, Director of the Office of Sacred Worship, liturgical coordinator for the diocesan Permanent Deacon formation program, diocesan Director of RCIA, and Director of the Diocesan Televised Mass Apostolate for the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wisconsin.  He has served as an adjunct faculty member for the Liturgical Institute for eight years, and is a frequent presenter in liturgical conferences and parish education. He is a member of the Society for Catholic Liturgy. He is the co author of Mystical Body, Mystical Voice: Christ in the Words of the Mass (forthcoming, LTP, 2010).

Dr. Denis McNamara is assistant director and faculty member at the Liturgical Institute. He holds a bachelor's degree in the History of Art from Yale University and an M.Arch.H. and Ph.D.in Architectural History from the  University of Virginia where he served as an instructor in the School of Architecture and Graduate Advisor Chair for the Office of the Dean of Students. He is the author of the books Heavenly City: The Architectural Tradition of Catholic Chicago (2005) and Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy (2009) which was awarded a 2010 prize by the Catholic Press Association.  He has authored articles and reviews in Chicago Studies, Communio, The Priest, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Assembly, Sacred Architecture, Letter and Spirit, and Environment and Art Letter. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, Society for Catholic Liturgy and the Institute for Classical Architecture, and works frequently as an architectural and theological consultant for church a construction and renovation.

Msgr. James Moroney holds an S.T.B. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and an S.T.L. in Liturgical Theology from the Catholic University of America. Currently he is Rector of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Worcester, Massachusetts and adjunct faculty member at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. Msgr. Moroney served as Executive Director of the USCCB Committee on the Liturgy from 1996-2007 and is presently a Consultor to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments and Executive Secretary of the Vox Clara Committee.  He served as Hillenbrand Distinguished Lecturer in 2007 and has addressed more than 18,000 priests and deacons in ninety dioceses on a variety of liturgical topics in recent years.

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