Convention 2010 Main Speakers

 

“Happy Marriages; Happy Families”

Monday, August 9	Tuesday, August 10	Wednesday, August 11
9:00-9:50 a.m. Michael D. Manhart, Ph.D. Executive Director’s Address	9:00-9:50 a.m. Joseph Corbo, M.D. “Modern Challenges to the Catholic Family”	9:00-9:50 a.m. Bishop Ronald W. Gainer “Marriage-Love and Life in the Divine Plan”
10:00-10:50 a.m. Michael Schwartz “Defending the Pro-Life Agenda in Washington, D.C.”	10:00-10:50 a.m. Dale Ahlquist President, American Chesterton Society “G.K.Chesterton: Prophetic Defender of the Family”	10:00-10:50 a.m. Fr Tad Pacholczyk “In Vitro Fertilization and Infertility”
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. James McKenna, Ph.D. “Cultural and Biological Perspectives on Breastfeeding (The First, True Family Value): What Mothers and Fathers Do and Can Do To Help Each Other Help Their Family”	11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, S.V. “At the Heart of Transformation of Culture: Couples and Families Living Fully the Vocation of Marriage”	11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Ray Guarendi, Ph.D “Back to the Family”
Special Address 1:30-2:00 p.m. Bishop Jean Laffitte Secretary, Pontifical Council for the Family 2:00-2:15 Q&A 2:15-2:30 Break

Agenda subject to change.

 

Bishop Jean Laffitte
Secretary, Pontifical Council for the Family

Bishop Laffitte was born in Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France in 1952, and entered the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome in 1984. He earned degrees in Theology and Philosophy in 1988, and was ordained a priest on July 2, 1989 for the Diocese of Autun, Chalon and Macon. He continued his studies at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, earning his doctorate in moral theology.

Since 1994 he has taught at the institute as a professor of conjugal ethics, anthropology and spirituality at the Lateran University. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Vice-Dean. Since 2003 he is a consultor of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He was appointed Vice-President of the Pontifical Academy for Life on January 24, 2006, and served in that capacity until being named the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Family on October 22, 2009.

 

Bishop Ronald W. Gainer
Diocese of Lexington

Bishop Ronald William Gainer was ordained and installed as the second Bishop of Lexington, Kentucky on February 22, 2003. He implemented a policy mandating NFP instruction prior to marriage in the diocese on July 1, 2007.

Bishop Gainer was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, educated in Catholic schools in Pottsville and St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania on May 19, 1973. He also earned a licentiate degree in Canon Law and a diploma in Latin Letters from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1986.

Bishop Gainer served in parish, campus ministry, marriages and family, and tribunal positions for much of his priesthood. On the national level, Bishop Gainer is a member of the USCCB Canonical Affairs Committee and the Committee on Higher Education. He also serves as the USCCB moderator for Catholic Campus Ministry Association and liaison with the North American Forum on the Catechumenate.

 

Mike Manhart, Ph.D.
CCL Executive Director

After receiving his doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Dr. Manhart embarked on a career in Research & Development with Procter& Gamble. While there, he held numerous management roles of increasing responsibility in various global health care and pharmaceutical organizations; he retired in 2008 as a Director of R&D. Concurrently, he and his wife served as volunteer CCL teachers for over 20 years. Michael also served on the Board of Directors for CCL from 2007 until assuming the role of interim executive director in March 2009. In July he was appointed executive director. He resides in Cincinnati and is the proud father of four and grandfather of two.

 

 

 

 

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. (Fr. Tad)
Director of Education, The National Catholic Bioethics Center

Fr. Tad is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts.

After earning a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Yale University, Fr. Tad did post-doctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He subsequently studied in Rome where he did advanced studies in theology and in bioethics.

He has testified before members of the Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Virginia and North Carolina State Legislatures during deliberations over stem cell research and cloning. He has given presentations and participated in roundtables on contemporary bioethics throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Europe. He has done numerous media commentaries, including appearances on CNN International, ABC World News Tonight, and National Public Radio.

 

 

 

Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, S.V., Ph.D.

Mother Donovan is a licensed psychologist in New York and Virginia, with specializations in child development and family issues.

Mother Agnes Mary is presently the first superior of the Sisters of Life, a Public Association of the Faithful founded by John Cardinal O’Connor in 1991. Mother Donovan has a unique charism of protection and enchancing the sacredness of human life.

See more at  http://www.sistersoflife.org/

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Corbo, M.D.

Dr. Corbo is a board certified psychiatrist and Vice President of the Catholic Physicians Guild of Northern Virginia. His interest/expertise in the area of treating pornography addictions began in the 1980’s when he saw many troubled teenagers who habitually used pornography in an attempt to numb their psychological pain. Dr Corbo treats adolescents, adults and families. He is a frequent speaker to mental health professional groups on issues of pornography, treatment of adolescents and psychopharmacology.

 

 

 

 

 

James McKenna, Ph.D.

Dr. McKenna holds the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Chair in Anthropology and is Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. He is widely published and has received numerous awards and honors in his primary areas of expertise, which include infant sleep, breastfeeding, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

 

 

 

 

Dale Alquist

Dale Ahlquist is President of the American Chesterton Society, host of the EWTN series “G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense,” and publisher of Gilbert Magazine. He has written two books on Chesterton, edited three more, and is the Associate Editor of the Collected Works of Chesterton for Ignatius Press. He has lectured at major colleges and universities and other venues, including Yale, Columbia, NYU, Cornell, Rice, the Vatican Forum in Rome, the Thomas More Centre in Melbourne, and at the House of Lords in London. He has been called “one of the most respected Chesterton scholars in the world.”

He is the co-founder of Chesterton Academy, a new independent high school in the Twin Cities, and the executive producer of Manalive, a film based on a novel by G.K. Chesterton, which will be released in 2009.

Dale received a B.A. from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a M.A. from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He lives in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his wife and six children.

 

Ray Guarendi, Ph.D.

Dr. Ray Guarendi is a father, clinical psychologist, author, public speaker and radio host. His experience includes school districts, Head Start programs, mental
health centers, substance abuse programs, inpatient psychiatric centers, juvenile courts, and a private practice.

Dr. Ray has been a regular guest on national radio and television, including Oprah, Joan Rivers, Scott Ross Prime Time, 700 Club, Gordon Elliot, and CBS
This Morning. He's appeared on regional radio and television shows in over 40 states and Canada. He has been the program psychologist for Cleveland's
Morning Exchange, Pittsburgh 2-Day, and AM Indiana. He has written several books, including Discipline That Lasts a Lifetime, You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!, Back to the Family, and his newest book, Good Discipline, Great Teens.

 

 

 

Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz has worked in the Washington D.C. political scene in various capacities during the past 15 years. Outside of this political work, Mr. Schwartz has spent most of his career in non-profit organizations advancing pro-family causes: chiefly, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (1977 to 1986); the Free Congress Foundation (1986 to 1994), and Concerned Women for America (2001 to 2004).

In a volunteer capacity, he has been associated with such movements and apostolates as the Couple to Couple League, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Washington Catholic Forum, and Democrats for Life. He served one term (1988 to 1991) on the Board of Trustees of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.

Mr. Schwartz is a native of Philadelphia, where he was educated in the schools of the Archdiocese, and is a graduate of the University of Dallas (B.A., 1971). He and his wife of thirty-eight years are the parents of four grown children, and grandparents of four.