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Fr. Lawrence Hennessey
 Fr.
Lawrence Hennessey is professor of Systematic Theology at Mundelein
Seminary where he has taught and provided spiritual direction for nearly 20
years. He holds a doctorate of Sacred Theology in Classical Philology and
Early Christian Theology from the Catholic University of America and is the
editor of the theological journal Chicago Studies. Known as a spiritual
master who combines substantive content with a gentle manner, Fr. Hennessey
will provide a thought-provoking and spiritually nourishing retreat for
priests.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
 Hillenbrand
Lecturer
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput was born September
26, 1944, in Concordia, Kansas. He joined the Order of Friars Minor
Capuchin, St. Augustine Province, in 1965 and
completed Studies in Psychology at Catholic University
in Washington D.C. in 1969. He earned a Master of Arts in Religious
Education from Capuchin College in Washington D.C., in 1970 and was ordained
to the priesthood on August 29, 1970.
Archbishop Chaput received a
Master of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco in 1971 and
was ordained Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota, on July 26, 1988. Pope John
Paul II appointed him Archbishop of Denver on February 18, 1997. As member
of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput is the second Native
American to be ordained bishop in the United States, and the first Native
American archbishop. He has since come to be known as a leader in the New
Evangelization.
Mr. Kevin Allen
 Retreat
schola director Kevin Allen is
highly regarded as a composer of opera, chamber and orchestral music, and
has also developed a unique reputation as a composer of church music for the
Roman Rite. Mr. Allen’s
sacred and secular works have been
performed in churches and concert halls throughout the United States and
Europe. Mr. Allen is based in
Chicago and is the founding director of the Collins Consort, American
Composer’s Project, the Schola Immaculata, and a co-founder of the Musicam
Sacram Choir of Chicago. He is also the choirmaster of the
Monastery of the
Holy Cross in Chicago.
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