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Michael J. Brough
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Michael J. Brough, is director of planning and programs for National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management
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Phil Bushnell
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Phil Bushnell is the Managing Director of the Religious Practice Group at Gallagher Benefit Services Inc.
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Dr. Mark F. Fischer
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Dr. Mark F. Fischer is professor of theology at St. John's Seminary in Camarillo, Calif. His web site: www.PastoralCouncils.com contains more than fifty articles and is a source for diocesan guidelines and official documents regarding councils. He has written two books on pastoral councils and co-written and contributed to several others. His latest book is Making Parish Councils Pastoral (Paulist Press, 2010)
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Mary Gautier
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Mary L. Gautier is a sociologist and senior research associate at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. At CARA, Mary specializes in Catholic demographic trends in the United States, manages CARA databases on Church information, and conducts demographic projects and computer-aided mapping. She also edits The CARA Report, a quarterly research publication, and other CARA publications. She is co-author of Catholicism USA (Orbis Books, 2000), Global Catholicism (Orbis Books, 2003), American Catholics Today: New Realities of Their Faith and Their Church (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and Best Practice of Catholic Pastoral and Finance Councils (Our Sunday Visitor, 2010).
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Tom Hoban
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Tom Hoban is the current President/CEO of Laity in Support of Retired Priests (LSRP). For twenty-five years he was the Chief Executive Officer of the West Metro Medical Society in Minneapolis. He is also the former President of Minneapolis Visiting Nurse Service and President of the combined Nursing Service Board. He has served on the Board of Trustees at the College of St. Benedict and various other nonprofit organizations in the Minneapolis area. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from John Carroll University in Cleveland and a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Missouri.
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Rick Krivanka
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Rick Krivanka is Director of the Cleveland Diocesan Pastoral Planning Office
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Very Rev. Brendan McGuire
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Father Brendan McGuire is vicar general for the Diocese of San Jose, California
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Mary Jo Moran
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Mary Jo Moran is executive director of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators
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Dominic Perri
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Dominic Perri is a facilitator and organizational development consultant who has worked with Catholic dioceses, presbyterates, religious communities, parishes and national Church organizations throughout the United States. Dominic provides facilitation, strategic planning, board development and executive coaching to his clients. He has facilitated priest convocations for six dioceses. Some of the other groups with whom he has worked are: Georgetown University, Loyola University Chicago, Paulist Fathers, Irish Christian Brothers of the US and Canada, Jesuits of the New England province, National Catholic Development Conference and the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry.
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Sr. Edith Prendergast, RSC
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Sr. Edith Prendergast, RSC is director of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Office of Religious Education
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Most Rev. David Zubik
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Most Rev. David Zubik is Bishop of Pittsburgh, Penn. since 2007. Prior to being appointed to Pittsburgh, he was Bishop of Green Bay, Wis. In November 2004 he was elected to chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Laity, a three-year term that began in November 2005. At that time the committee published its landmark document, Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord. Bishop Zubik has also serves on the US bishops' Administrative Committee, the Audit Sub-Committee and the National Advisory Council. He is the Episcopal liaison for the National Association for Church Personnel Administrators.
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