WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 · ST. LOUIS
America's Saint Conference Speakers
A full-day gathering of inspiring speakers who know and understand Sheen's significance for our world today.
Come discover how to think, pray, and love, like Sheen.
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★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
★headline keynote speaker
Arthur Brooks
Vanderbilt Professor and Best-selling Author
Arthur Brooks is one of the world’s leading experts on the science of human happiness, appearing in the media and traveling the world to teach people in private companies, universities, public agencies, and faith communities how they can live happier lives and bring greater well-being to others.
Brooks is a professor at Vanderbilt University and a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is a CBS News contributor, columnist with The Free Press, and host of the weekly podcast "Office Hours with Arthur Brooks."
He is the author of 16 books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness, Build the Life You Want (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey), and From Strength to Strength.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Kelsey Reinhardt
President and CEO of CatholicVote
Kelsey Reinhardt is President and CEO of CatholicVote, bringing a distinguished background in theology, global advocacy, and mission-driven Catholic media. Before assuming her current role in 2025, she joined CatholicVote as Head of Media and Evangelization after serving in senior leadership at EWTN News, where she helped launch the first Arabic-language Catholic news agency in Iraq for persecuted Christians and oversaw five international news agencies in six languages.
A Wyoming native, Kelsey has served the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on immigration and refugee issues, ministered in parishes and schools, worked as a missionary in Nigeria, and spent nearly a decade in formation with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Augustine Institute, she is passionate about advancing the Church's mission through evangelization, faithful leadership, and engagement with today's culture.
Fr. Jason Charron
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church
Fr. Jason Charron is a Ukrainian Catholic priest, speaker, and educator with nearly twenty years of ministry experience. A married father of seven, he is known for his engaging presentations on Scripture, the Church Fathers, evangelization, and spiritual combat. He gained international attention as the priest who offered the invocation at the July 13, 2024, rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, moments before the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump.
During the war in Ukraine, he helped rescue twenty-two orphaned children to safety. Through conferences, media appearances, and a growing online ministry, Fr. Jason challenges audiences to embrace Christ with clarity, courage, and conviction.
Tammy Peterson
Catholic convert, Podcast host
Tammy Peterson is a Catholic speaker, podcaster, and advocate for women and families. Through her story of healing, conversion, and faith, she encourages women to find clarity and strength through tradition, motherhood, prayer, and the Catholic faith.
She is the host of The Tammy Peterson Podcast, where she explores faith, family, culture, and the challenges of modern life through thoughtful and honest conversations.
Terry Barber
Virgin Most Powerful Radio
Terry Barber is a Catholic author, international speaker, and media founder with over 30 years of evangelization experience.
He founded the Catholic Resource Center and Virgin Most Powerful Radio, co-hosts The Terry and Jesse Show, and previously helped establish Saint Joseph Communications and Lighthouse Catholic Media
Bishop Joseph Coffey
Military Archdiocese
Episcopal Vicar for Veterans Affairs. Raised in Philadelphia and ordained in 1996, he served two decades as a U.S. Navy chaplain, deploying with sailors and Marines from Okinawa to the Arabian Gulf to Afghanistan, and retired with the rank of captain. Pope Francis named him a bishop in 2019.
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Retreat to Priests · Washington · 1974
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