2007 Conference Speaker Profiles

Cardinal Seán O’Malley

Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley was appointed Archbishop of Boston July 1, 2003 and installed as Archbishop on July 30, 2003.  He was nominated a Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI on February 22, 2006 and elevated in a Consistory on March 24, 2006. 

Seán Patrick O'Malley was born June 29, 1944, in Lakewood, Ohio. He attended St. Fidelis Seminary, Butler, Pennsylvania, and Capuchin College and the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He holds an advanced degree in religious education, and speaks Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and German.

He was professed as a member of the St. Augustine province of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, July 14, 1968, and was ordained to the priesthood on August 29, 1970.

Archbishop-elect O'Malley was director of the Apostolate for the Spanish Speaking in the Archdiocese of Washington for 14 years when he was named Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in 1984. He became Bishop of St. Thomas on October 16, 1985.

He was then appointed by Pope John Paul II as Bishop of Fall River, Massachusetts, June 16, 1992, and served there until September 2002.

Pope John Paul II later appointed him Bishop of Palm Beach, September 3, 2002, where he served until July 2003 until being appointed our Archbishop.  

The Archdiocese of Boston was established in 1808 and made a metropolitan archdiocese in 1875. It is comprised of five counties of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has a Catholic population of approximately 2.1 million out of a total population of 3.9 million.

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Cardinal Peter Turkson

Cardinal Peter Turkson is the Archbishop of Cape Coast Ghana.  Born in 1948, he is the 4th youngest Cardinal in the Catholic Church and the first Cardinal from Ghana. 

Brief Biography
Cardinal Peter Turkson was born on 11 October 1948 in Wassaw Nsuta (Ghana). He studied in Ghana, New York and Rome. He earned a doctorate in Sacred Scripture in 1982. He speaks English, Fante, French, Italian, German and Hebrew, and can understand written Latin and Greek.

He was ordained on 20 July 1975 and returned to Rome several times for further studies.

He was appointed Archbishop of Cape Coast on 6 October 1992 and consecrated on 27 March 1993 by Archbishop Andow of Accra. Pope John Paul II elevated him to the College of Cardinals on 21 October 2003.

Curriculum Vitae

Birth. October 11, 1948, Wassaw Nsuta, diocese of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Education. St. Teresa's Minor Seminary, Amisano; St. Peter's Regional Seminary, Pedu (philosophy); Seminary of St. Anthony-on-Hudson, Rensaleer, New York (bachelor in theology); Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome, 1976 to 1980 (licentiate in Sacred Scripture); 1987 to 1992 (doctorate in Sacred Scripture). Besides English and his native Fante, he also speaks French, Italian, German and Hebrew fluently, and has written knowledge of Latin and Greek.

Priesthood. Ordained, July 20, 1975, by John Kodwo Amissah, archbishop of Cape Coast. Professor in St. Teresa's Minor Seminary, 1975-1976. Further studies in Rome 1976-1980. Professor in St. Teresa's Minor Seminary again; professor of Sacred Scripture and vice-rector in St. Peter's Major Seminary, Pedu; pastoral work in a parish annexed to the seminary. Further studies in Rome, 1987-1992. Promoted to the episcopate while studying in Rome.

Episcopate. Elected archbishop of Cape Coast, October 6, 1992. Consecrated, March 27, 1993, cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, Cape Coast, by Dominic Kodwo Andoh, archbishop of Accra, assisted by Peter Poreku Dery, archbishop of Tamale, and by Peter Kwasi Sarpong, bishop of Kumasi. Attended the Special Assembly for Africa of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, April 10 to May 8, 1994. Attended the IX Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 2 to 29, 1994. Treasurer of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM). Chancellor of the Catholic University College of Ghana. Member of the University Council of the University of Ghana, Legon; the National Sustainable Development Council of the Ministry of Environment; the board of directors of the Central Regional Development Committee; and the board of trustees of the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem Educational Fund.

Cardinalate. Created cardinal priest in the consistory of October 21, 2003; received the red biretta and the title of S. Liborio, October 21, 2003. Participated in the conclave of April 18 to 19, 2005. Attended the XI General Ordinary Assembly of the World Synod of Bishops, Vatican City, October 2 to 23, 2005. He is the first cardinal from Ghana.

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Carl Andersen

As Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, Carl A. Anderson is the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the world’s largest Catholic family fraternal service organization with more than 1.7 million members.

Mr. Anderson has had a distinguished career as a public servant and educator. From 1983 to 1987, he served in various positions of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, including special assistant to the President and acting director of the White House Office of Public Liaison. Following his service at the White House, Mr. Anderson served for nearly a decade as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

From 1983 to 1998, Mr. Anderson taught as a visiting professor of family law at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. In 1988, became the founding vice president and first dean of the Washington, D.C., session of this graduate school of theology now located at The Catholic University of America.

Mr. Anderson was the only Catholic layman from North America to serve as an auditor to two recent World Synods of Bishops, in October 2005 and October 2001. In 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed him to the Pontifical Academy for Life. In 2002, Mr. Anderson was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity by Pope John Paul II. Later that year he was named by the Holy Father to be a consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family; and in 2003, as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Pope Benedict XVI appointed him a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications in 2006.

In 2005, he was appointed a consultant to the Pro-Life Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and reappointed in 2004. He serves as a member of the International Scientific Council of the Studium Generale Marcianum of Venice. In 1994, he was a member of the Vatican delegation for the Fifteenth Meeting of the International Jewish Liaison Committee held in Jerusalem. In 2000, Pope John Paul named him a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.

Mr. Anderson currently serves on the Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception and the National Catholic Educational Association. In 2003, Mr. Anderson received an honorary doctorate from St. Vincent's Seminary in Latrobe, Pa.

Mr. Anderson has served as assistant supreme secretary and supreme secretary of the Knights of Columbus until becoming Supreme Knight in October 2000. Prior to that he served as the Order’s vice president for public policy from 1987 to 1997. He has been grand knight, district deputy, state advocate, state secretary and state deputy for the District of Columbia jurisdiction.

Since Mr. Anderson assumed the responsibilities of Supreme Knight in 2000, the Knights of Columbus has achieved new heights in charitable giving, providing in its latest year more than 139 million directly to charity and 64 million hours in voluntary service.

In addition, during this time the Knights of Columbus established the $1 million dollar Heroes Fund to provide immediate assistance to the families of rescue workers killed in terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001; the $2 million Pacem in Terris Fund to assist efforts for peace in the Middle East by the Catholic Church; and was financial sponsor of the January 17, 2004, Vatican Concert of Reconciliation.

Mr. Anderson holds degrees in philosophy from Seattle University and in law from the University of Denver. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court.

He and his wife, Dorian, are the parents of five children.

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Father Roger Landry & Scot Landry

Roger and Scot Landry are identical twins that were born in Lowell, MA in 1970.  They grew up in St. Michael’s Parish, attended Lowell Public Schools and then studied at Harvard.   After Harvard, Roger entered formation for the Priesthood and Scot pursued a career in business (spending a short time in the Seminary himself).  Father Roger is currently Pastor of Saint Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford and Executive Editor of The Anchor, the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River.  After serving as an executive at a few technology companies, Scot recently joined the Archdiocese of Boston as Secretary for Institutional Advancement and Chief Development Officer. 

Scot is a co-founder of the Boston Catholic Men’s and Women’s Conferences.

Father Roger Landry

Father Roger J. Landry is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, MA, where he was ordained by the Most Reverend Sean O’Malley, OFM Cap. in 1999.

In addition to his duties as pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in New Bedford and as executive editor of The Anchor, the weekly newspaper of the Diocese of Fall River, Father Landry speaks widely on the thought of Pope John Paul II and on controversial and often misunderstood issues in Catholicism, especially in the realm of bioethics and the convergence of Catholic teaching and popular culture. He also has preached retreats in various states and leads pilgrimages regularly to Rome.

Father Landry prepared for the priesthood at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, St. Philip’s Seminary in Toronto and for five-plus years in Rome, where he lived at the North American College and studied at the Angelicum, Gregorian and Lateran Universities.

After his ordination as a priest, Bishop Sean O’Malley sent him back to Rome complete advanced degrees in moral theology — specializing in marriage, family and sexuality issues — and bioethics. While in Rome, he was for several years an official Vatican guide to the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica, did a multipart series for Vatican radio on the principle Churches of Rome and led thousands of pilgrims to the other major Christian monuments in the city.

Upon return from the eternal city, Father Landry served for three years as parochial vicar of Espirito Santo Parish in Fall River and as chaplain at Bishop Connolly High School. After that, he spent two years as parochial vicar at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Hyannis.

Prior to the priesthood, Father Landry worked in biological research and in politics.

He graduated with a biology degree from Harvard College and worked for four years at Massachusetts General Hospital researching the circadian neuroendocrine control of metabolism and immunology in the laboratory of Anthony Cincotta, Ph.D.

During his years at Harvard, after the magazine he co-founded — Peninsula — started to receive national attention as a result of controversies generated by it, Father Landry received political training from Virginia’s Leadership Institute, which he put to use first for the campaign of Congressman Frank R. Wolf from Virginia and then as the executive director of the Conservative Leadership Political Action Committee, a small PAC that focused on identifying, training and placing young people onto hotly contested congressional and senatorial campaigns in which the pro-life cause was at issue.

Father Landry was one of the six seminarians profiled in the 1997 book The New Men: Inside the Vatican’s Elite School for Priests by Brian Murphy and the subject of profiles by the USA Today in June 2002, The National Catholic Register in October 2003, and Columbia Magazine in July 2004. He writes regularly for Catholic newspapers and magazines and pens a weekly editorial for his diocesan newspaper, The Anchor.

In 2004, with Fr. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, he founded the Donum Vitae Center for Bioethics, in order to make Catholic bioethical teaching accessible to non-specialists.

For more information on Father Landry, please see www.CatholicPreaching.com or www.SaintAnthonyNewBedford.com.

Scot Landry

Scot Landry is Secretary for Institutional Advancement and Chief Development Officer of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston (“Archdiocese”), [www.rcab.org].  He oversees the Development activities of the Archdiocese, raising funds to carry out the Catholic Church’s mission through its many ministries and agencies.

Prior to his role at the Archdiocese, Scot served as the Chief Strategy Officer and then Chief Operating Officer for Eze Castle Software (“ECS”), [www.ezecastlesoftware.com] the leading provider of order management and trading software for the hedge fund community and Chief Operating Officer at its sister company Eze Castle Integration (“ECI”) [www.eci.com], the leading IT consulting firm to the hedge fund community. 

Prior to ECI, Scot served as Principal at The Parthenon Group (www.parthenon.com), a business strategy consulting firm founded in 1992 by ex-Bain Consulting and Bain Capital partners. 

Prior to Parthenon, Scot was selected as one of 4 inaugural Dean’s Research Fellows at Harvard Business School [www.hbs.edu].  Scot joined with Professors Tom DeLong and Ashish Nanda to develop a course called “Professional Services.” 

Prior to his studies at Harvard Business School, Scot served as a brand manager for Dixie Plates and Cups [www.dixie.com] at the James River Corporation (now part of Georgia Pacific).  Scot began his business career as an associate brand manager for Procter & Gamble [www.pg.com] in P&G’s elite “Laundry and Cleaning Products” sector. 

Scot is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard College.  He lives in Belmont, MA with his wife and three children.  He is the co-Founder of the Boston Catholic Men’s and Women’s Conferences that drew over 8,500 Catholics together in March of 2006.

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Martin Doman

[Biography taken from MartinDoman.com]

Hi, Martin here. This biography page is here so that you can get to know me a little bit better. Music is such a personal thing, and many times we don't know anything about the people who are the sources of the music we listen to. So here goes:
 
I was born to a strong Catholic family in Collegeville, PA in the early seventies. My parents, John & Michele Doman, have 10 children total. I was the third in this bunch. Needless to say, my childhood was full of movement. In a nutshell, I was loved and nurtured, I went through all the hard things that kids go through in childhood, but I had the incredible blessing of being raised with a strong sense of faith in my life.
 
I had always loved music. My home as a child was inundated with music, mainly the listening variety. My sister took guitar lessons, and we all took piano lessons, but I think my main influence was listening to a lot of Christian music, good and bad. My main musical influences were Keith Green, Amy Grant, and Michael W. Smith growing up. I listened to really the full gamut of Christian music at that time in the eighties, but these were the main artists. Keith Green's powerful music really inspired me as a young man.
 
Anyway, I never really thought about being a musician myself until I left home in my sophomore year and attended Koinonia Academy in Warren, NJ. This small, coed, K-12 school was founded and run by the People of Hope, a Catholic Charismatic Community of which my aunt and uncle were members. There I first experienced the music ministry of Robert Filoramo, the worship leader for the community. This man's music as well as some of the other songs of the community really exposed me to the honesty of true worship. Bobby (as he was known) sang straight from his heart, without all of the trappings of popular musicianship. And his song just had a way of drawing you into it, and closer to God. I was very attracted to this, and I began to learn to play guitar. I modeled my own style of music after Bobby's, but I still never saw myself as a musician. Music was just a part of my faith, a way for me to understand God and to pray to Him.

When I was in college at the dynamically wonderful Franciscan University of Steubenville, I began to minister for the first time with music as a freshman at Mass. All of the sudden, I was faced with people who would come and thank me for my gift. They sometimes would come with tears in their eyes and gush over how great a moment they had experienced when I was singing. I knew, to some extent (but not fully at that time), that it was God who was speaking to them, not me. It was only when I realized how powerful music can be for prayer that I decided to pursue it further.
 
As I grew up, graduated and matured, I came to realize even more clearly that God has chosen to use my music in a special and transforming way; that it was not me who was to be glorified through my gifts, but Him. I began to pray even more intensely in my songs, using music to further my own relationship with Him. I began listening to music by Christian artists that I could tell were passionately seeking God. I listened as they grappled with the truths and mysteries of God, allowing their honest prayer be exposed in their songs. It was this type of honest prayer that drew me in, and it was this type of music that I have since emulated.

I recorded my first album, Praying Twice, right before I graduated. I saw it as a project just for the people at college, those people who had been touched by God through the songs I sang. God blessed that album with generous monetary support from a friend of my wife's family, and he blessed the ministerial power of the album.
 
I recorded another album a year later, and continued to witness the incredible love of God that flowed forth to so many people through the medium of recorded music. I am humbled to tell you that I have received many letters from people I have never met, thanking me for my music. They described how it helped them or their family members through a dark time. These letters still come once and a while, and they prove to me over and over again that God IS real. His power and love somehow works wonders through my meager resources, and I, like the "foot-in-mouth" Simon Peter, am amazed by His ability to take screw-ups and misfits and use them as a fine instrument in his hands.
 
After college, I got married and began to raise a family. After a few different ministry opportunities, including a one-year encounter in Littleton, CO where I experienced very closely the tragedy at Columbine HS, I settled in York, PA, only a short distance from where I grew up.
 
I now am the proud father of five beautiful blessings from God, and am continuing to see the fruits that God has granted to my ministry.  I have been working on an idea that has now become a non-profit company called Christ Music.  Our vision statement is this: To renew the heart of the Church through Eucharistic praise & worship. We have been in existence for about 3 years now, and our mission is to support Eucharistic Adoration with P&W through worship events called Caelorum Services and by producing recordings and songbooks of Catholic music.  Caelorum means "of heaven" in Latin, and we chose this name because we want to use the gift of musical worship to draw people closer to Christ in the Eucharist, creating on earth an aspiration of heavenly worship. 
 
If you want more information on Christ Music and our ministry, please click here (http://www.christmusic.org/).
 
In 2004, I presented this idea to my Bishop, who loved it so much he wanted me to establish it in our Diocese of Harrisburg, PA.  So now, as of January 2006, I am working for the Most Reverend Kevin C. Rhoades, who is constantly an inspiration to me.  I am blessed to be working with such a wonderful Christian who is also my shepherd.  Through this new position at the Diocese, I pray that Christ Music will grow further in the scope of ministry.