Pastoral Staff
Mark R.
Francis, C.S.V.
Mark is the Superior General of the Clerics of St.
Viator (Viatorians). Before being elected in 2000 Mark was
Professor of Liturgy at Catholic Theological Union at
Chicago for 13 years. His special interest is liturgy and
culture and he has written articles and several books on
the topic, including Shape a Circle Ever Wider: Liturgical
Inculturation in the United States (LTP: Chicago, 2000). He
is also a professor of Liturgical Inculturation at the
Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Sant' Anselmo).
Contact information:
• Tel: +39 06 529.1603 • Send Email
James
Hentges, O.S.C.
Jim is a member of the Crosiers, the Canons Regular
of the Order of the Holy Cross. He completed his doctorate
in Liturgy at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute (Rome)
and has taught and served as director of campus ministry at
Fordham University (New York) and Manhattanville College
(Purchase, NY). Additionally his pastoral experience
includes being a pastor of two parishes in Minnesota. He
has served his Order as prior of their New York priory and
now as general assistant to the master general and rector
of the Rome Crosier community living at San Giorgio in
Velabro.
Contact information:
• Tel: +39 06 69204528 • Send Email
Donald G.
LaSalle, S.M.M.
Don is the Vicar General of the Montfort Missionaries
and Secretary of the North American Academy of Liturgy.
Before coming to Rome in 2005, he served on the pastoral
staff of the Shrine of Lourdes in Litchfield, Connecticut,
in the United States, and was the Director of Programs at
Montfort House, a retreat house in Litchfield. Don also
served as Adjunct Professor of Liturgy at the Seminary of
the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY. Don’s
areas of interest in the field of liturgy include the
liturgical year and the relationship between liturgy and
spirituality.
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Keith F.
Pecklers, S.J.
Keith is a Jesuit of the New York Province and has
lived in Rome since 1992. He is Professor of Liturgy at the
Pontifical Gregorian University, Professor of Liturgical
History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, and serves
as an "on air" expert in church affairs for ABC NEWS. Keith
holds an MA in Liturgical Studies from the University of
Notre Dame and a Licentiate and Doctorate in Sacred Liturgy
from the Pontifical Liturgical Institute. He is founding
president of the International Jungmann Society. In
addition to numerous articles and reviews he has published
five books the latest of which is entitled Worship
(Continuum and Liturgical Press, 2003).
Contact
information:
• Tel: +39 06 6701.5266 • Fax: +39 06
6701.5413 • Send Email
Donald
Bolen
Msgr. Don Bolen is a diocesan priest from the
Archdiocese of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and is
currently working at the Pontifical Council for Promoting
Christian Unity in Rome as staff person at the service of
the Catholic Church’s relations with the Anglican
Communion and the World Methodist Council. In this capacity
he is the co-secretary of the Anglican-Roman Catholic
International Commission (ARCIC) and the International
Methodist-Catholic Dialogue. He also serves on the
international commission responsible for preparing texts
for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. He is an
associate priest of the Madonna House Apostolate and an
Ecumenical Canon of Norwich Cathedral (England).
Contact information:
• Tel: +39 06 698.84552 • Send Email
