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.
Contact information:
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
