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).
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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 councilor to the master general and rector of the Rome Crosier community living at San Giorgio in Velabro.

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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).




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