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Deacon Francis L. Agnoli, OFS, MD, DMin

Deacon Frank Agnoli was ordained for the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, in 2002, after earning his Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Theology degrees at St. John’s University School of Theology and Seminary. He completed the Doctor of Ministry in Preaching degree from the Aquinas Institute of Theology in May 2009 and earned the Certificate in Homiletic Supervision from the St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in 2013. He currently serves as the Director of Liturgy and Director of Deacon Formation for the Diocese of Davenport.

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Dianne Bergant, CSA

Dianne Bergant, CSA is the Carroll Stuhlmueller Distinguished Professor Emerita of Old Testament Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago where she taught for forty-four years. She earned an MA in Sacred Scripture and a PhD in Biblical Languages and Literature from St. Louis University. She has taught or lectured in: Republic of South Africa and Namibia; Trinidad, West Indies; Carlow and Dublin, Ireland; Kiribati, Central Pacific; Mexico, Nicaragua, and Dominica; London; Rome; Hyderabad, India; Toronto and Cornwell, ONT, Philippines; Thailand; Australia and New Zealand. She served as Vice-President and then President of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (1999-2001). She was the Rev. Robert J. Randall Distinguished Professor of Christian Culture, Providence College, Providence, RI (2009-2010). She was awarded Doctor of Divinity, Honoris Causa, Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, CA (2013), Doctor of Arts, Honoris Causa, Marian University, Fond du Lac, WI. (2014), Doctor of Divinity, Honoris Causa, the Catholic University of Australia in Melbourne (2015). She is the author of more than twenty-five books and has contributed chapters to several others. She has also written numerous articles in various biblical and theological publications.

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Rev. Richard Fragomeni

Rev. Richard Fragomeni is a presbyter of the Diocese of Albany, New York, and has been a member of the CTU faculty since 1990. His teaching involves him in Roman Catholic theology, interpretation theory, and poetry. His current work is in the field of word and sacrament: the intersection of symbolic activity and language as it creates insights into the Christian proclamation of grace. Central to this work is a fascination with the power of liturgy and preaching in the transformation of the human heart. Richard is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University. He also serves as the Rector of The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, an Italian-American spiritual center in Chicago’s historic Little Italy. In addition to his teaching duties he is a preacher of parish missions and gives presentations nationally and internationally on liturgical, sacramental, and catechetical topics.

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Ann Garrido, DMin

Ann Garrido is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO. While her first passion is teaching, Garrido has also served the school in a number of administrative roles including (at varying points in time) as Director of the Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching, Director of MAPS Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Director of Field Education, Director of Distance Learning, and Director of the Aquinas Ministry Integration Project. Most recently, Garrido served as the Marten Fellow in Preaching at the University of Notre Dame.

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Rev. Ed Griswold

Fr. Ed Griswold is a priest of the Diocese of Trenton. He retired from St. Mary’s Seminary & University at Baltimore in 2021. During his 14 years at St. Mary’s, he taught Homiletics, served as Vice Rector, and directed the Pastoral Formation Program. Presently he is working on-line with priests and deacons for the Institute of Homiletics, University of Dallas.

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Prof. Berthold Hoeckner

Berthold Hoeckner is a music historian specializing in 19th- and 20th-century music. Research interests include aesthetics, Adorno, music and literature, film music and visual culture, the psychology and neuroscience of music. Awards and fellowships include the Alfred Einstein Award of the American Musicological Society (1998), a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2001/2), a Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2006/7), and a Faculty Fellowship at the Franke Institute of the Humanities (2012/13). He was Lead Researcher in a three-year research project on somatic wisdom at the Center of Social and Cognitive Neuroscience and is currently Principal Investigator in a new research project studying the relationship between wisdom and humility Programming the Absolute: Nineteenth-Century German Music and the Hermeneutics of the Moment, was published by Princeton University Press in 2002; Apparitions: New Perspectives on Adorno and Twentieth-Century Music by Routledge in 2006. He has taught at Chicago since 1994.

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Patricia J. Hughes, DMin

Dr. Patricia J. Hughes earned a Doctorate in Ministry from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Her experience embraces parish ministry as well as twenty years of diocesan leadership as Director of the Worship Office in the diocese of Grand Rapids as well as the Diocese of Dallas. She also served the Archdiocese of Louisville as Director of Worship at the Cathedral of the Assumption. Dr. Hughes has maintained authorship for the past 10 years with Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago. Her teaching audiences include parish liturgical ministers, deacons, graduate and post-graduate students, most recently at the University of St. Mary of the Lake (Mundelein, IL). She has a special interest in sacramental theology as well as the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults. On weekends, you can find her accompanying the songs of the assembly at the piano and the organ, in two Catholic parishes in Indianapolis, IN. She is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and works in an advisory role to the Southwest Liturgical Conference.

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Fr. Thomas A. Kane, C.S.P.

Fr. Kane taught preaching, liturgy and the arts for 33 years at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA, and Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in Chestnut Hill, MA.

He also is a ritual maker and videographer with research interests in the arts, communication, liturgy and culture. Fr. Kane has studied contemporary worship and celebration and has written and lectured on liturgy, dance and creativity in the United States and abroad. In his research, he has documented liturgical inculturation in three videos: The Dancing Church of Africa, The Dancing Church of the South Pacific, and FIESTA! Celebrations at San Fernando Cathedral, published by Paulist Press.

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Rev. Michael Kueber, STL, DMin

Father Mike Kueber is an administrator of St. Patrick’s parish in Canby, OR. He is a recent graduate of the doctoral program for preaching at Aquinas Institute. He also serve as the director of Hispanic Ministry for the Archdiocese of Portland, OR. Lastly, he recently published Preaching to Latinos: Welcoming the Hispanic Moment in the U.S. Church, which won a 3rd place award from the Catholic Media Association.

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Rev. Gerald C. Liu, PhD

Born in Jackson, Mississippi to culturally Buddhist immigrants from Taiwan, the Rev. Gerald C. Liu, PhD helps renew and start United Methodist ministries across Kansas and Nebraska for the Great Plains Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. He has served churches in greater Atlanta and Nottingham, England, is a liturgist at St. John’s in the Village and has an honorific as minister-in-residence at The Church of the Village. Both are episcopal and UM parishes in Manhattan, New York. He holds UMC Elder’s orders from the Mississippi Annual Conference and also belongs to the Episcopal Diocese of New York. He is currently Board chair-elect and chair of the Alignment and Culture Committee of the Emory University Woodruff Alumni Advisory Board. He also chairs the Board of Artworks Trenton, the premiere community and professional arts organization of New Jersey. Before his current post, Gerald has also served in a directorship for the UM General Board of Higher Education and Ministry resourcing budgets reaching $10 million combined for 200+ UM collegiate ministries. He was the first tenure-track American-born Asian to teach worship and preaching at Princeton Theological Seminary and Drew Theological School. He has also previously convened the Identity and Imagination Workgroup of the Academy of Homiletics and the Liturgical Studies and Critical Theories seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy. Gerald has also chaired DEI initiatives for the North American Academy of Liturgy and Societas Liturgica. His books include Music and the Generosity of God (Palgrave, 2017) and co-authored with Khalia Williams, A Worship Workbook: A Practical Guide for Extraordinary Liturgy (Abingdon)

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Prof. Anne McGowan, PhD

Anne McGowan’s research interests focus on the theological, historical, and ritual development of Christian worship practices and the ways in which these practices (as articulated in texts and celebrated in living contexts) invite and engage the full and active participation of all members of the Body of Christ and call them to live differently in the Church and in the world. The textual and dialogical engagement of liturgical matters among various Christian traditions, East and West, ancient and modern is a recurring theme in her scholarship. She also explores how sacramental rites and catechesis involve the sacramental awareness of children and recognize young people as capable of appropriating and enacting Christian faith at a level appropriate to their embodied existence and chronological and intellectual maturity. Anne’s vocation as a liturgical scholar was kindled by her involvement in pastoral liturgical ministry, and the ongoing engagement of academic insights and practical application is an important component of her work. She enjoys introducing students to the rich heritage of the Christian liturgical tradition and engaging with them in critical reflection on texts and traditions, rituals and aesthetics.

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Susan McGurgan, DMin

Dr. Susan McGurgan is the Director of the Preach All Ways Initiative and an Associate Professor of Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis. She holds a Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching, and has taught Pastoral Studies at Mount St. Mary’s School of Theology in Cincinnati, preaching at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, and was the 2020 Marten Visiting Fellow in Preaching at the University of Notre Dame.

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Rev. Michael E. Nolan, Dmin

Fr. Mike Nolan is a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, KS. He holds a D.Min. in Preaching from Aquinas Institute, St. Louis, and has graduate degrees in history, liturgy, canon law, religious education, and theology.

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Deacon Ron Pirau

Deacon Ron Pirau is Director of Permanent Deacon Formation Program at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. He was ordained in 2012 as a Permanent Deacon for Archdiocese of Indianapolis, assigned to Ss. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish and ministry of charity serving the incarcerated.

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Mary Prete

Mary Prete has served the church in various capacities. She is the former Vice President of World Library Publications, where she launched the influential magazine *Preach*. Additionally, she has been a board member for Pastoral Press and the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. As a music director in parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Chicago, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with preaching teams, fostering a cohesive approach to Sunday liturgy by integrating music and preaching to enhance and convey the message of the Gospel to the gathered assembly.

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Fr. Benjamin Roberts, DMin

Fr. Benjamin Roberts is a priest of the Diocese of Charlotte, NC and Pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church. He holds the DMin in Preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology and is the author of The Voice of the Bridegroom: Preaching as an Expression of Spousal Love.

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Deacon Dave Shea

David Shea has been a permanent deacon in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, for almost 24 years. He was ordained by Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk in September 1998. He retired as the Associate Professor of Homiletics at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary where he taught for 17 years. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Management, an M.A. in Religion from the Athenaeum of Ohio, and a Doctorate in Preaching from Aquinas Institute of Theology at St. Louis University. David joined the seminary faculty in 2002 after a thirty-year career in business where he held various sales and marketing management positions. He served as President of two small high-technology distribution and engineering companies before leaving industry and transitioning to the faculty at Mount St. Mary’s. He is a member of the Catholic Association of Teachers of Homiletics (CATH). David has been married to Jan for 53 years. He enjoys photography, travel, baseball, time with friends and family, especially time with his three grandchildren—Aidan, Liam, and Isis. Deacon David continues to teach homiletics in deacon formation programs in our Archdiocese and in other dioceses around the country. He also conducts parish formation programs and holds marriage and liturgical ministry workshops for parishes throughout the Archdiocese.

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Sr. Catherine Vincie, RSHM, Ph.D.

Dr. Catherine Vincie is a member of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Eastern American Area for which she has served as a Provincial Councilor since 2015. She received her PhD in liturgical studies from The Catholic University of America in 1990 and has been on the faculty of the Aquinas Institute of Theology from 1995 – 2015. She is author of The Role of the Assembly in Christian Initiation, Celebrating Divine Mystery and Worship and the New Cosmology as well as over 55 articles. She is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, serving as President in 2012, and was a guest member of the ICEL Advisory Board from 1998-20.

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Deacon Don Weigel

Deacon Don Weigel was ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Diocese of Buffalo on May 29, 2010. He received his MA in Theology in 2009 from Christ the King Seminary in Buffalo as part of his preparation for the Diaconate. In addition to his leadership roles for Catholic Relief Services and the Diocesan participation in the Synod, Deacon Don teaches homiletics in the Diaconate Formation program, and he had been an adjunct instructor in the Continuing Education Program at Christ the King Seminary as well as an adjunct professor in Religious Studies at D’Youville College, and regularly gives talks, presentations and retreats to a wide variety of audiences.