WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 · ST. LOUIS

The Sheen Spotlight Conference Speakers

A full-day gathering of the voices keeping Sheen's prophetic witness alive on the eve of his Beatification.

Presented by:

★CONFERENCE HOST & MC

Dr. Peter Howard

Founder of the Fulton Sheen Institute and Fulton Sheen Movement

Founder and President of the Fulton Sheen Institute and the Fulton Sheen Movement, and one of the foremost scholars of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen.

He holds a doctorate in sacred theology (S.T.D.) from the Angelicum in Rome and is the author of The Woman, the authoritative study of Sheen’s Mariology. A theologian, professor, and Marian scholar, he has carried Sheen’s message to audiences across the United States and abroad.

His wife, Chantal, is the author of the forth coming book on Fulton Sheen, Show Me Your Scars and she is the founder of CatholicFinishingSchool.com

Msgr. Roger Landry

Catholic priest, commentator

Priest of the Diocese of Fall River and National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, named a Chaplain of His Holiness by Pope Francis in 2024.

A graduate of Harvard and the Pontifical North American College, he served the Holy See’s mission to the United Nations for seven years and as a National Eucharistic Preacher during the Eucharistic Revival. He is the author of Plan of Life and a familiar voice on EWTN.

Jason Jones

Filmmaker, Author

Film producer, author, and human rights worker. He was a co-executive producer of Bella, winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, and associate producer of The Stoning of Soraya M.

A convert to the faith, he founded the Human-Rights Education and Relief Organization (HERO) and its Vulnerable People Project, carrying aid to the persecuted from Sudan to Iraq.

He is co-author of The Race to Save Our Century.

Dale Ahlquist

The Society of G.K. Chesterton

President of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and creator and host of EWTN’s The Apostle of Common Sense. Chesterton biographer Joseph Pearce has called him probably the greatest living authority on Chesterton’s life and work.

The author and editor of more than twenty books, he co-founded the first Chesterton Academy, which grew into the Chesterton Schools Network now spanning dozens of classical Catholic schools across the country and beyond.

Sr. Dede Byrne, POSC

Surgeon, Little workers

Surgeon, retired U.S. Army colonel, and member of the Little Workers of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Over nearly three decades in uniform she served from the Sinai to Afghanistan; as a physician she has cared for the poor and uninsured, attended Mother Teresa, and answered the call at Ground Zero on September 11.

A bold voice in the pro-life movement, she gives her life now to free surgery for the forgotten.

Chéri Ballinger

Catholic Speaker

Film producer, actress, and Catholic speaker. Discovered as a young girl in Disney’s 1998 The Parent Trap, she went on to executive-produce the feature film Roe v. Wade.

After surviving a traumatic brain injury and a long recovery she attributes to Our Lady’s intercession, she now travels as an international speaker under a single motto: Be the Light.

Fr. Thomas Loya

Light of the East Podcast

Byzantine Catholic priest and pastor of Annunciation of the Mother of God Parish in Homer Glen, Illinois. Trained as an artist at the Cleveland Institute of Art before his ordination in 1982, he is an iconographer and a leading teacher of the Theology of the Body through the Tabor Life Institute.

He hosts Light of the East on EWTN affiliates and across Catholic radio.

John Yep

Catholics for Catholics

Founder and CEO of Catholics for Catholics, among the fastest-growing Catholic movements in America.

A former missionary who spent years discerning the priesthood, he has become a leading figure in Catholic grassroots engagement, mobilizing the faithful in public life across the country.

(Principal partner of the conference through Catholics for Catholics.)

More Speakers

To be announced soon

America needs a saint, an American saint...

one...

who was born in this great land, who showed in crisis how an American Catholic can relive the life of Christ crucified.

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen

Retreat to Priests · Washington · 1974

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