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Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Episcopal Moderator
Born in Chicago, Illinois on January 16, 1937, Francis Cardinal George is the first native Chicagoan to serve as Archbishop of Chicago. He studied theology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and was ordained in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate on December 21, 1963. Cardinal George earned a master's degree in philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in 1965 and a doctorate in American philosophy at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1970. In 1971, he received a master's degree in theology from the University of Ottawa. He also obtained a Doctorate of Sacred Theology in ecclesiology from the Pontifical University Urbaniana in Rome (1988). He became a Cardinal on February 21, 1998.
Noel Moore, Chair
Fr. Thomas Baima
Thomas A. Baima is a priest of the archdiocese of Chicago and provost of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, where he also teaches systematic theology. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of ecclesiology, ecumenism, interreligious dialogue, and missiology. Fr. Baima is the author of The Concordat of Agreement Between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Lessons on the Way Toward Full Communion, and co-author of Understanding Four Views on the Lord's Supper.
Donna Miller Casey
Bruce Christian
D. Bruce Christian is Vice Chairman of N.B. Handy Company. He also serves as Executive Director of the Old City Cemetery Museums and Arboretum. He received his A.B. degree in Latin American Studies from the College of William and Mary and did his graduate work at Tulane University. He lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Christopher Clardy, MD
Fr. Brian Daley, S.J.
Fr. Brian Daley, S.J. is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He received B.A. degrees from Fordham University (1961) and the University of Oxford (1964), where he completed an M.A. in 1967 and a D.Phil. in 1978. He received a Ph.L. from Loyola Seminary, Shrub Oak, NY, in 1966, and a Lic.theol. from Hochschule Skt. Georgen, Frankfurt, in 1972. Fr. Daley is a historical theologian, who specializes in the study of the early Church, particularly the development of Christian doctrine from the fourth to the eighth centuries. His most recent books are The Hope of the Early Church, and On The Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies.
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and ethical convictions. Her books include Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social Thought; The Family in Political Thought; Meditations on Modern Political Thought, Women and War, Democracy on Trial, and Augustine and the Limits of Politics.
Julie Jansen Kraemer
Fr. Brian Paulson, S.J.
Brian G. Paulson, S.J., entered the Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus in 1981 and was ordained in 1992. Since ordination, Fr. Paulson served as Director of Vocations, 1993-1998, and, as President of Saint Ignatius College Prep in Chicago from 1999 to the present. Fr. Paulson serves on the Board of Directors of Boston College and the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. Fr. Paulson holds a BSFS from Georgetown; a MA in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago; an EdM from Harvard University; a STB from Centre Sevres in Paris; and an STL from Weston Jesuit School of Theology.
Steven G. Rothmeier