Contributors

Madeline Pecora Nugent, CFP, is a wife, mother, and grandmother, and currently Minister General of the Confraternity of Penitents, an international private association of Third Order Franciscans with commendation.

Michael McVeigh has been the editor of Australian Catholics magazine for nearly 10 years, and is a senior editor at Jesuit Communications Australia. He is also secretary of the Australasian Catholic Press Association, and a member of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Media Council.

Michael P. Foley is an associate professor of Patristics in the Honors College at Baylor University. He has published over seventy articles on Catholic theology, liturgy, political philosophy and culture, and is the author of Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday? (2005) and Wedding Rites (2008).

Gerard Condon is from County Cork in Ireland and is a Diocesan Adviser for Religious Education with the Diocese of Cloyne. From 1995-2002 he was the Spiritual Director at the Irish College in Rome.

He is the author of The Power of Dreams: A Christian Guide (Columba Press: 2008).

Mike Dean is a writer, photographer, translator and English teacher based in Berlin.

He was born in Paisley, Scotland, and studied at Dundee University.

He worked for local government and international IT companies before moving to Padua in 2005, and later to Rome.

OFM Conv., a native of Montreal, Quebec, formerly parish priest and pastoral counsellor at Saint Bonaventure Friary in Toronto, Canada, is director ofFrancisCorps, the friar’s young adult ministry.