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Keynote speaker Fr. Robert Barron is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary and a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago.  He is a widely respected and popular speaker and lecturer, heard regularly on Relevant Radio for his Word on Fire program of Catholic evangelical preaching. He is the author of The Strangest Way, Heaven and Stone in Glass, Bridging the Great Divide, and The Priority of Christ. He was recently chosen by Cardinal Francis George to head the archdiocese's evangelization mission.

 
Mr. Christopher Carstens is Director of the Office of Sacred Worship in the Diocese of LaCrosse. He holds and MA in Philosophy from the University of Dallas and was sent by Bishop Burke to earn an MA in Liturgical Studies from the Liturgical Institute. He is a popular lecturer and adjunct faculty member of the Liturgical Institute.



 
Sr. Marganne Drago, SSJ holds a doctorate in Music Education and an MA in Liturgical Studies from the Liturgical Institute. She has served as diocesan liturgy director for the diocese of Las Vegas, Nevada and Scranton, Pennsylvania.








 
Fr. Dennis Gill is currently a doctoral candidate in Liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute Sant'Anselmo in Rome. He has served recently as the Director of Worship at the North American College in Rome and Director of the Office of Worship for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

 
   photo unavailable Fr. Peter Girard, OP is a Dominican friar of the Province of Saint Joseph. He holds a Masters in Communication from American University, a Masters of Divinity and License in Theology  from the Pontifical Faculty of The Immaculate Conception, Washington DC and a doctorate in Theology  from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. Fr. peter has served as the Dean of Men and Professor of Homiletics at the Pontifical College Josephinum and currently teaches at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.


 

Sheila Liaugminas is an Emmy Award winning journalist with extensive experience in both the secular and religious journalism. Her writing covers a variety of topics, with her particular interest being matters of the Church, faith, culture, politics and the media. In Chicago, she reported for Time magazine for more than twenty years, including a number of cover stories. Sheila has been active in the religious media, with contributions to National Catholic Register, Crisis Magazine, Adoremus Bulletin, and Voices, the magazine published by Women for Faith in Family. Most recently, she hosted the popular radio shows The Right Questions and Issues and Answers on Relevant Radio, heard throughout the United States.

 
Fr. Douglas Martis is Director of the Liturgical Institute and Chair of the Worship Department at Mundelein Seminary. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Institute Catholique in Paris as well as a second doctorate in comparative religion from the Sorbonne. His research interests include the 20th century Liturgical Movement and the concepts of active participation in the liturgy. He is the editor of the recently released Mundelein Psalter.




 
Dr. Denis McNamara is a faculty members and Assistant Director of the Liturgical Institute where he teaches courses on liturgical art and architecture, aesthetics, the Liturgical Movement and inculturation. He holds a doctorate in architectural history from the University of Virginia, and his major research interests include the intersection of sacramental theology and liturgical art and architecture. He is the author Heavenly City: The Architectural Tradition of Catholic Chicago.


 
Fr. Thomas Milota is a priest of the Diocese of Joliet in Illinois, and the pastor of  Saints Peter and Paul in Naperville, Illinois. He holds an STL from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome, and has served a a member of the formation faculty at the North American College in Rome. He has been active in renewing the liturgy at the parish level.





 
Mr. James Pauley is Assistant Professor of Theology and Catechetics at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, from which he also holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree. A popular lecturer and parish speaker, he is currently pursuing an STL with a Sacramental Theology Specialization at the Liturgical Institute.






 
Fr. John Szmyd is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, a member of Mundelein Seminary's formation faculty, and also its Director of Liturgy. Together with Fr. Douglas Martis he prepared Celebratio Liturgiae, the liturgical norms for Mundelein Seminary.