Sheila can be reached through her blog.

Holly Pierlot

Holly Pierlot is a Catholic wife and mother of five from Prince Edward Island, Canada. By profession, Holly is a teacher, musician and a former parish Catechetics Director. She is author of A Mother’s Rule of Life and maintains an interactive website for mothers worldwide on topics relating to the Catholic vocation of marriage and motherhood. She writes and speaks on the spirituality of marriage & motherhood and practical Catholic education issues. Holly homeschools her children, is involved in music ministry at her parish church, and is studying toward a Masters degree in Pastoral & Educational Studies.

Holly can be reached at holly@mothersruleoflife.com

Helen Alvare is associate professor of law at Catholic University of America and Columbia School of Law. She has worked closely with the Church in various official capacities since 1990, defending teachings on women, family, bioethics, reproductive technologies, population and related issues in television, radio, print media, the US Congress and public lectures at home and abroad.

She was the Official Delegate of the President of the United States at the Inaugural Mass of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (April 2005), is presently a consultant to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life Committee, and was the US press representative for the Holy See Delegation to the United Nations Conferences on Women, Beijing (1995) and on Population and Development, Cairo (1994). Helen is also a consultant to ABC News concerning Women and the Catholic Church, Religion in the Public Square; the Papacy.

Helen can be contacted by clicking HERE.

A wife and homeschooling mother of three daughters, Karen Edmisten is a convert to Catholicism who writes and speaks about faith, family, motherhood and all things Catholic. Her work has appeared online and in a variety of Catholic and secular magazines.

She can be reached at karen.edmisten@gmail.com.
More information at her website.

Genevieve Kineke, wife and mother of five, is a convert to the faith who writes and speaks primarily on authentic femininity. In 1992, she founded Canticle Magazine to discuss the topic and edited it for twelve years. She collaborated with eleven other women in God’s Call to Women: Message of Women and Inspiration which was presented personally to John Paul II in gratitude for his writing on women. Her most recent book is The Authentic Catholic Woman which has an accompanying study guide. She can be contacted at gskineke@dignityofwomen.com.

Speaking topics include

Further information here: www.feminine-genius.com

Dale O’Leary has been writing and speaking on marriage and family issues, same-sex attraction disorder, gender studies, and the feminine vocation for over twenty-five years. Her writings have been staples of clergy and professional formation in a variety of disciplines and her work has provided critical information for many NGO’s who work at the United Nations. Her most recent book is One Man, One Woman, and her previous book, The Gender Agenda, has been translated into several languages. She can be reached at dalemoleary@yahoo.com.

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Teresa Tomeo is an author, syndicated Catholic talk show host, and motivational speaker with more than 20 years of experience as a news woman in radio, TV, and print media. She left the secular several years ago to start her own speaking and communications company and her daily morning program, “Catholic Connection,” is heard on over 125 Catholic stations through EWTN Global Catholic Radio.

Teresa travels around the country, working closely with Catholic women’s ministries, helping women reclaim their identities as daughters of Christ and providing the tools needed to stand up against today’s culture. Her book, Noise—How Our Media Saturated Culture Dominates Lives and Dismantles Families, was published in February by Ascension Press. You can learn more about Teresa at www.teresatomeo.com.

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Colleen Carroll Campbell is an author, columnist, television host, and former White House speechwriter to President George W. Bush. Now a fellow at the Washington, DC-based Ethics and Public Policy Center and an op-ed columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, she appears frequently as a commentator on FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS, writes for national publications, and hosts her own international television talk show, “Faith & Culture,” on EWTN. Colleen speaks to audiences across America on Christian feminism, The New Faithful, and issues at the intersection of religion, politics, and culture. She can be reached through her website at www.colleen-campbell.com, or at the Ethics & Public Policy Center.

Titles include: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy

Heidi Hess Saxton

A wife and foster/adoptive mother of two, Heidi is editor of Canticle magazine, author of several books, and is a columnist at CatholicExchange.com and CatholicMom.com. Prior to her conversion in 1994, Heidi belonged to a variety of mission groups and Christian communities all over the world. She holds a B.A. in International Studies and Communications (Azusa Pacific University) and in Evangelical Missions and Theology (Bethany College of Missions), and has done graduate coursework in Catholic theology (Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit). Read more about her on her blogs for adoptive parents, Catholic writers, and converts and other seekers.

Her titles include:

• Raising Up Mommy: Virtues for Difficult Mothering Moments (Fall ’07)
• Touched by Kindness: True Stories of People Blessed by Compassion
• With Mary in Prayer

• Taming the Mommy Monster: Combating Deadly Vice with Heavenly Virtue
• Real Women of the Faith: Flawed Yet Fabulous (Women in Scripture)
• Loving Someone Else’s Child: The Spirituality of Adoption
• Praying Like Our Lady: The Seven Words of Mary in Scripture