A Mexican-American operatic soprano
Runner up on America's Got Talent 
Cancer survivor 
Diagnosed in college ​​

Barbara Padilla

Her Story: God the Architect of Our Lives

April 21, 2021 7 p.m.
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Let's Feast: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Livestream Lunch and Learn on Thursday, December 10, 2020 from 12-1pm.

Kristy
​Nabhan-Warren

     Professor, V.O. and Elizabeth Kahl Figge Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Iowa in the Department of Religious Studies. 

     Interim Departmental Executive Officer of the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Iowa.

     Editor of UNC Press book series Where Religion Lives, and of the upcoming Handbook of Latina/x/o Christianities.


      Kristy’s newest book is Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland (Forthcoming The University of North Carolina Press, Fall 2021), and is a deep ethnographic study that focuses on the intersections of migration, religion, and work in Iowa.
"Being a disciple means making the connection between the faith that we learn and our lived experience: we must connect the head with the heart so that our faith becomes not simply something that we do but part of who we are."

Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers

Building a Civilization of Love: A Catholic Response to Racism: November 18, 2020 7-8:15pm via Zoom

The Dynamic Deacon:
A no-nonsense, passionate proclaimer of the Catholic faith

BA in Economics and Business Administration,University of Notre Dame
Master of Theological Studies, University of Dallas

Cohost of the "Morning Glory" radio show

Benedictine Oblate of Mt. Angel Abbey



Father Tad Pacholczyk, Ph.D.

"Vaccines, Ventilators and the Ethics of COVID-19"

​March 3, 2021 at 7 p.m.​​​​
Director of Education
for the National Catholic Bioethics Center
Priest of the Diocese of Fall River, MA
Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Yale
Informant on CNN, ABC, NBC Nightly News & NPR.

Father Tad has done advanced studies in dogmatic theology and in bioethics, does commentaries for several news outlets, and holds degrees in several subjects, including philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology and chemistry.  
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