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See videos of speakers from the 2011 conference HERE
Speakers:
Professor Gerard Bradley: “Personal Vocation: Jesus Calls Upon Each One of Us for Help”
Fr. Wilson Miscamble, C.S.C.: “Discerning One’s Call in the Contemporary University: One Priest’s Rambling Reflections on Happiness, Mission, Meaning and What Really Matters”
John and Monica Sikorski: "The Theology of the Body within Marriage"
Dr. Eric Sims, Dr. Jill Sims, and Bobby Rauch: “Defending Sexuality: Battling the Culture of Pornography”
Wendy Shalit: “Authentic Femininity in the 21st Century”
Leonard DeLorenzo: "Vocation and Transformation: Learning How and What to Love"
Dr. Jeffery Langan: "Vocation in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
Dr. John Cavadini: "'Become What You Are!': the Universal Call to Holiness"
Bishop Emeritus John D'Arcy
Jennifer Lahl: Eggsploitation
Katherine Whalen: “Standing Beside Mary Below The Cross: How Edith Stein Calls Contemporary Women to Defend the Sanctity of Life”
Sister Elinor Gardner, O.P.: “‘I will seek Him whom my heart loves’ (Song 3.2): On Woman and Being Called”
Emily Bisssonnette: “A Suffering Culture in Need of Suffering: The Witness of Suffering as Integral to the Vocation and Sacrament of Marriage”
Rebecca Krier: “Spiritual Vocation: Edith Stein and Ignatius of Loyola in Dialogue”
Nathaniel Peters: “Bernard of Clairvaux for the Rest of Us: Activity, Contemplation, and Vocation”
Donald L. Wallenfang: “Awaken, O Spirit: The Vocation of Becoming in the Work of Edith Stein”
Lillian Civantos: “Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson, and the Art of Circumstance”
Pauline Marie Smith: “The Geography of Vocation”
Dawn Eden: "The Thrill of the Chaste"
Fr. Neil Roy, PhD, STL: “Vocation and the Sacramental Life”
Michele Chronister: "God's Grace is Enough for Us: The Work of Grace in an Individual's Vocation"
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP: Religious Life
Danielle Rose: “Who is the saint that is just you?”
Dr. David O’Connor: “She may be my wife: How A Real Man Looks at Women”
Natassia Kwan: "Domestic Violence in the U.S.: Past, Present, and Hope for a Better Future”
Michael Bohnert: "Aging Planet: The Overpopulation Myth"
Lisa Everett: “Natural Family Planning and the Pursuit of Happiness in Marriage”
Dr. Gilbert Meilaender: "The Infinite Horizon of Vocation"
Dr. David Fagerberg: "Our Vocation in the Face of Death: Living the Resurrection”
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, OP: “Edith Stein and the Wisdom of Experience: The Masculine and Feminine Vocations to Love”
Dr. Catherine Pakaluk: "Being Mary in a Martha World: Edith Stein on What Women Want"
Caitlin Dwyer and Anamaria Scaparlanda-Ruiz: “ We R Who We R: Finding Yourself Apart from Drinking and Hookups”
Dorothy Cummings McLean: “Waiting for Your Marching Orders: Staying Sane while Single”
Sr. M. Benedicta Duna: “Spiritual Childhood as a Path to Spiritual Motherhood"