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Father William Casey
Father Bill Casey is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a 1979 graduate of Temple University. After graduating from college, he served as an officer in the U.S. Army. Upon leaving the Army, he entered the Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy.
He studied Philosophy at Christendom College and Theology at Holy Apostles Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood in 1991. In 1997, Fr. Casey was elected the Superior General of the Congregation. Father attributes his call to the priesthood to the Mercy of God, his love for the study of Sacred Scripture, and his strong devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Father Jim Goode
Father James E. Goode, OFM, Ph.D. is the Pastoral Director of Solid Ground Franciscan Ministry, an evangelization ministry with African American Families and the founder and president of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life. He is the leading Black Catholic Evangelist in the United States.
Franciscan Father Jim Goode is a proud member of the Franciscan Family of Franciscan Friars- Province of the Immaculate Conception. He is a native of Raonoke, Virginia and when ordained in May 1972 at the Shrine Church of St. Anthony in New York City, he became the first Black Catholic priest from the City of Roanoke. He holds B.A. degree in Philosophy from the Immaculate Conception Seminary, University of the State of New York, a Master of Divinity &, Masters of Theology degree from St. Anthony’s Theological Seminary, University of the State of New York, Master of Arts degree in Psychology, from the College of St. Rose, a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology from Union Graduate School. A Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary) Virginia Theological Seminary.
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Patrick Madrid
Patrick Madrid is the publisher of Envoy Magazine, a journal of contemporary Catholic thought, and he is director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College.
Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered numerous journalism awards, including several first-place awards in the magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” category from the Catholic Press Association.
Patrick is the author or editor of 14 books and booklets on Catholic themes including, Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That?, and 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know. He edited and co-authored the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series (over 500,000 combined copies in print in English and Spanish).He has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.
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Curtis Martin
Curtis Martin is the President and Founder of FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, one of the fastest growing movements in the Catholic Church. Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver stated, “No one does a more dynamic job of reaching college students for Christ than FOCUS.”
FOCUS was founded in 1998 as a national outreach to college campuses, both to secular and Catholic schools. Through small group Bible studies, large group leadership training, and one-on-one discipleship, FOCUS brings the fullness of life and truth in the Catholic Church to college students, and equips them with the tools to help them share this good news with their friends. FOCUS is working to play a vital role in the “New Evangelization” called for by Pope John Paul II.
In 2008-2009, FOCUS missionaries serve on 39 campuses in 21 states, with plans to reach 100 campuses in the next ten years.
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Hector Molina
Héctor Antonio Molina, Jr. is a dynamic and much sought after bilingual lay Catholic speaker and Evangelist, who, for nearly 25 years has ministered the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Catholic faith throughout the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.
From the age of 15, Hector has devoted himself to responding to John Paul II’s call for a “New Evangelization”. It was during his early years as a Youth Minister, that Hector discerned his call to lay ecclesial ministry. He served for eleven years as Pastoral Associate at the historic St. John the Baptist Parish in his home Diocese of Brooklyn before relocating to the Archdiocese of St. Louis where he served for six years under the episcopal leadership of Archbishop Emeritus Raymond Leo Burke, both as Director of Hispanic Ministry and later as founding Director of The Office of the New Evangelization.
Hector is currently launching his own full-time evangelization apostolate which he hopes will contribute to the "new springtime" spoken of by the late John Paul the Great. Hector's fervent desire is to reach others for Christ, who, as the great apostle Paul put it, “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).
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His Eminence Cardinal Francis George, O.M.I.
Cardinal Francis George is the first Chicago native to become Archbishop of Chicago. Installed in May 1997, he arrived by way of the west coast, where he had spent less than a year as Archbishop of Portland, Oregon and five years as Bishop of Yakima, Washington. He is the thirteenth Ordinary for Chicago since its establishment as a diocese in 1843.
The northwest side native, a member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is the sixth Cardinal to lead the Chicago Archdiocese’s 2.3 million Catholics. He has assumed a prominent position among U.S. Cardinals, and, as the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, his pastoral leadership encompasses international and national audiences.
Locally, he shepherds his diverse flock with an energy that belies his 72 years. He is the first Cardinal Archbishop to visit all of the Archdiocese’s 363 parishes, and to communicate digitally, electronically and in three languages.
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