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Liturgical Press authors to speak at
Los Angeles Religious Education Congress
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Paul Turner, STD, is pastor of Saint Munchin Parish in Cameron, Missouri, and its mission, Saint Aloysius in Maysville. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, to which he served as president in 2006. Turner is also author of Ages of Initiation: The First Two Christian Millennia, Let Us Pray: A Guide to the Rubrics of Sunday Mass, and When Other Christians Become Catholics published by Liturgical Press. |
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Sulpician Father Ronald D. Witherup, SS, is Superior General of the Society of St. Sulpice (Sulpicians), a group of diocesan priests dedicated to initial and ongoing formation of priests. He previously served eleven years as Provincial of the U.S. Province, and prior to that was a professor of Sacred Scripture. He is well known to Little Rock Bible Study, having given the Bible Institute in 2000 on the Acts of the Apostles. He has also published widely in the field of Bible, currently concentrating on Paul’s letters. Among his most recent publications are 101 Questions & Answers on Paul, Scripture: Dei Verbum, St. Paul: Called to Conversion, and Stations of the Cross According to Saint Paul. He has also produced sets of audio CDs on Saint Paul through Now You Know Media. |
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Paul F. Ford is professor of systematic theology and liturgy, St. John’s Seminary (1988–present). He was honored by Cardinal Mahony with the Laudatus Award in 1995 “for excellence in the promotion of the liturgical life of the parishes and the people of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.” He is married to Janice Daurio, PhD, professor of philosophy at Moorpark College. |
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J. Patrick Mullen, PhD, is assistant professor of biblical studies, New Testament, and associate director of pastoral formation/field education at St. John’s Seminary, Camarillo, California. He is the author of Dining with Pharisees published by Liturgical Press. |
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Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, is the T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is author of numerous books, including I Believe in God: A Reflection on the Apostles' Creed, Being Catholic in a Culture of Choice, Towards a Truly Catholic Church, and Educating for Faith and Justice Catholic Higher Education Today (2010) published by Liturgical Press. |
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Richard R. Gaillardetz, PhD, is the Margaret and Thomas Murray and James J. Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. Among his other publications is Teaching with Authority, published by Liturgical Press. He is an official delegate on the U.S. Catholic—Methodist Ecumenical Dialogue. In 2000 he received the Sophia Award from the faculty of the Washington Theological Union in recognition of “theological excellence in service to ministry.” |
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Donald Senior, CP, is president of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, where he is also a member of the faculty as professor of New Testament. He is the general editor of the acclaimed Catholic Study Bible (Oxford University Press, rev. ed., 2006), coeditor of The New Interpreters Study Bible (Abingdon Press, 2003), and editor-in-chief of The Bible Today. His publications include the four-volume The Passion series (Liturgical Press), Jesus: A Gospel Portrait (Paulist Press, rev. ed., 1994), What Are They Saying About Matthew? (Paulist Press, rev. ed., 1996), and A commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew. Abingdon Press, 1998). He is past president of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. In 2001 Pope John Paul II appointed him as a member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and he was reappointed in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. |
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Michael Downey is Professor of Systematic Theology and Spirituality at Saint John’s Seminary in Camarillo, and the Cardinal’s Theologian, Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Downey is the author and editor of numerous books, including The Cathedral: At the Heart of Los Angeles published by Liturgical Press. |
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Timothy M. Matovina, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He collaborates on the San Fernando Cathedral Study, a project funded by the Lilly Endowment through the Mexican American Cultural Center. He is the author of Mestizo Worship: A Pastoral Approach to Liturgical Ministry and Camino a Emaús:
Compartiendo el ministerio de Jesús published by Liturgical Press. |
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Richard N. Fragomeni, PhD, is Associate Professor of Liturgy and Homiletics at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is editor of The Ecological Challenge also published by Liturgical Press. |
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