Brian Flanagan, PhD
Associate Professor of Theology at Marymount University

Fr. Thomas Nairn, OFM
Minister Provincial of the Sacred Heart Province of Franciscans

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, STD
Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

John Carr
Founder and Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University

Lecturer: Rev. Bryan N. Massingale, STD
Professor of Theological Ethics at Marquette University

Responder: Rev. Lawrence Duris
Pastor of St. Ailbe Catholic Church of Chicago

Lecturer: Regina Wentzel Wolfe, PhD
Associate Professor of Catholic Theological Ethics at Catholic Theological Union

Responder: Rev. Michael D. Place, STD
Program Director for the Franciscan Leadership Enhancement Program at Franciscan Alliance

Lecturer: Sr. Katarina Schuth, OSF, STL, PhD
Endowed Chair for Social Scientific Study of Religion at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota

Responder: Kevin Ahern, PhD (cand.)
Doctoral Student in Theological Ethics at Boston College and Adjunct Professor of Theological Ethics at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM)

Lecturer: Rev. John W. O’Malley, SJ, PhD, University Professor in the Theology Department at Georgetown University

Responders: Sr. Doris Gottemoeller, RSM, PhD, Senior Vice President for Mission and Values Integration at Catholic Health Partners (CHP), and Rev. Michael D. Place, STD, Program Director for the Franciscan Leadership Enhancement Program at Franciscan Alliance

Sr. Patricia Wittberg, S.C., PhD
Professor of Sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Lecturer: Most Rev. Michael W. Warfel, DD, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana

Responders: Lisa Sowle Cahill, PhD, J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor, and Peter J. Casarella, PhD, Founding Director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology (CWCIT) and Professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul University

Lecturer: James D. Davidson, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Purdue University

Responders: Sr. Amy Hoey, RSM, PhD, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Companioning the Dying, Mike Hayes, Co-Founder of Busted Halo, and Melissa Cidade, Research Associate and Director of Pastoral Assistance Surveys adn Services (PASS) at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)

Lecturer: Brian Williams, Anchor of NBC Nightly News

Responder: Rev. J. Cletus Kiley, D.Min., President and CEO of The Faith & Politics Institute

Lecturer: Jill Ker Conway, PhD, Visiting Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Responder: Rev. James J. Bacik, D.Phil., Pastor of Corpus Christi University Parish at the University of Toledo (read full text of response)

Most Rev. Ricardo Ramírez, CSB, DD, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico

Lecturer: Roberto S. Goizueta, PhD, Margaret O’Brien Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology at Boston College

Responder: Margaret R. Pfeil, PhD, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology/Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame (read full text of response)

Lecturer: Most Rev. V. James Weisgerber, PhL., STL, DD, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Responder: James E. Post, PhD, President of Voice of the Fathful
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Lecturer: John L. Allen, Jr., Rome Correspondent at the National Catholic Reporter

Responder: Mary Ann Glendon, JD, LLM., Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School at Harvard University
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Lecturer: Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, STL, PhD, John C. and Gertrude P. Hubbard Chair in Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America

Responder: Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk, STD, PhD, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati
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Cardinal Walter Kasper, Dr. theol., Dr. theol. habil., President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Lecturer: Cardinal Avery Dulles, SJ, STD, Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University

Responder: Monika K. Hellwig, LLB, PhD, President and Executive Director of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities

Lecturer: R. Scott Appleby, PhD, Director of the Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame

Responders: Dolores R. Leckey, Senior Research Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, and Robert Royal, PhD, President of the Faith & Reason Institute

Lecturer: Cardinal George Basil Hume, OSB, STL, DD, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster, London, England

Responders: Mary Ann Glendon, JD, LLM, Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School at Harvard University, and Rev. Brian E. Daley, S.J., D.Phil., Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame