Fr. Paul was born in Elyria, Ohio. He professed his Benedictine vows in 2006 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. He has served in a variety of capacities including Director of Admissions, Vocation Director, Editor of Tower Topics, Master of Ceremonies, and Subprior. 

Father Larry Richards was ordained to the priesthood in 1989 and has been a pastor in Erie, Pennsylvania since 2002. He currently serves as pastor of St. Luke Church and Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. He has conducted thousands of Parish Missions, Conferences and Retreats. He is best known for making the love of God real in his talks. Father Larry is the founder of The Reason for Our Hope Foundation and has many Media presentations including The Truth, The Mass Explained, and Confession with hundreds of thousands of copies distributed worldwide and now available for FREE on Our Hope.TV. 

He is the author of Be a Man! Becoming the Man God Created You to Be, a #1 best seller for Ignatius Press, having sold over 160,000 copies. He authored a second book called Surrender! The Life Changing Power of Doing God’s Will, published by Our Sunday Visitor, which has sold over 55,000 copies. You can see him on EWTN Global Catholic Television on Living Right with Dr. Ray. He is the Spiritual Director for the Catholic Men’s Leadership Alliance and hosts a weekly podcast titled, Anchored In Hope. His daily homily can be heard on your favorite podcast app.

Mike and Alicia Hernon are co-founders of the Messy Family Project, a ministry dedicated to empowering moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. Before launching the ministry, Mike was Vice President of Advancement at Franciscan University and host of Franciscan University Presents on EWTN. He holds both a Bachelor's degree in Theology and a Master's in Business Administration.  Alicia has a degree in Education and is the founder of Mary Seat of Wisdom Classical Community.

Their Messy Family podcast has over 2 million downloads from all over the world, and they regularly speak to dioceses and parishes around the country. The Hernons are the hosts of Family: Guide to Parenthood on Shalom World, they have been featured on The Choices We Face with Ralph Martin, Ave Maria Radio, several shows on EWTN and Catholic radio.

Parents of ten children and grandparents to eight, the Hernons have made their home in Steubenville, OH for the past 30 years. Their children have been their greatest joy and challenge in this life, as well as their path to heaven.  Without their children, there would be no podcast, since 10 kids certainly does make for a very messy family! 

Fr. Dennis McManus is a priest of the Archdiocese of Mobile in Alabama. From 1997-2006, he worked as Associate Director of the Secretariat for the Liturgy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington, DC. Pope John Paul II named him as consultor and theologian to the newly established Vox Clara commission of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on which he has served since 2001; Pope Benedict XVI then appointed Fr. McManus as consultor to the Congregation itself in 2010 and then as peritus to the Vox Clara commission. He has taught as a professor of liturgy at several seminaries, just completing his last assignment at Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg. Fr. McManus has written widely on liturgical topics. He served as pastoral coordinator for the Archdiocese of New York in deliverance and exorcism ministry from 2009-2011. 

He is also the USCCB consultant for Jewish Affairs and membered on both the Vatican-Baptist dialogue (2007-20012) and the USCCB-Reform Churches dialogue which issued its historic joint agreement on the form and recognition of baptism (2012). He was general editor of Paulist Press’ Ancient Christian Writers Series from 1994-2007 and translation editor of Varsity Press’ Ancient Christian Commentary from 1995-1998. Fr. McManus has taught courses in theology, medieval literature, classical languages, and Jewish studies for over 40 years. 

He holds a bachelor’s degree in classical languages and philosophy from St. Mary’s College of California, a master’s degree in historical ethics from Georgetown University, and a doctorate in patristics from Drew University. 

He just completed 25 years as a Professor in the department of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University. He is presently assigned as parochial vicar at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California, and professor of theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.

Jesse is a full-time bilingual Catholic Lay Evangelist who is nationally acclaimed for his dynamic, upbeat, Christ-centered preaching. His preaching apostolate is called “On Fire Evangelization” and his website is jesseromero.com. 

Jesse is a resident of Arizona and a retired Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff who has been married to his wife Anita in the Catholic Church since 1983 and is a father of three married young adults and many grandchildren. 

He has a B.A. from Mount St. Mary’s University in Los Angeles and an M.A. in Catholic Theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. He is a bilingual Catholic author. (1) He is recipient of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Award for his doctrinal clarity as a speaker, (2) He is a recipient of the Fullness of Truth “Defender of Faith” Award, (3) He was inducted into the “Sports Faith International Hall of fame,” (4) He is a best-selling author and was a Speaker on the Trump Traveling Team in the state of Arizona representing “Catholics for Trump”, “Latinos for Trump” and “Law Enforcement for Trump.” 

Jesse has been on Catholic radio for over 15 years now, hosting, teaching, and speaking in English & Spanish. He is currently on virginmostpowerfulradio.org, hosting “The Terry and Jesse Show” & “Jesus 911.” Jesse also hosts a weekly Spanish Catholic podcast called ‘Católicos para Católicos” where he catechizes the Spanish faithful. He speaks on all things Catholic, such as:

• Catholic Evangelization

• Apologetics

• Marriage & Family

• Male Spirituality

• Spiritual Warfare

• Culture Wars

• Teen & Chastity talks

Jesse has been preaching the Catholic Gospel the fullness of truth since 1995. He has also defended Holy Mother Church in several official debates with different Protestant Pastors and has been on dozens of Spanish television news stations representing Holy Mother Church in debates against Hispanic liberal secular humanists.

Jesse’s motto: “Love God, Save Souls, Slay Error!”

Dr. Morse is the Foundress and President of The Ruth Institute, an interfaith international coalition to defend the family and build a Civilization of Love.

She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester and taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities for 15 years. Dr. Morse and her husband are parents of an adopted child, a birth child, a goddaughter, and they were foster parents for San Diego County to eight foster children.

Dr. Morse founded the Ruth Institute in August 2008 at her dining room table in San Diego. She expected to focus on the importance of motherhood, drawing on the themes of her first book, Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.

However, Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to amend the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, hit the scene at exactly that moment. Because of her extensive research on how children need both parents and a stable union between them, she did not feel she could sit on the sidelines of the Prop 8 debate. She became a campaign spokeswoman and redirected her studies into a much broader arena than she ever anticipated.

After the US Supreme Court overturned both Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, Dr. Morse began to address the whole range of marriage and family issues in a more comprehensive manner. The Ruth Institute began to systematically catalogue the harms of the Sexual Revolution and to give voice to its victims.

She has authored or co-authored six books and has spoken around the globe. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Polish, and Chuukese, the native language of the Micronesian Islands. Her latest book is The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church was Right Along. (See below for a complete list of Dr. Morse’s books.)

Dr. Morse was named one of the “Catholic Stars of 2013,” on a list that included Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI. That same year, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the Ruth Institute to their “hate map” as an “anti-LGBT” hate group.

In 2015, Dr. Morse and her husband relocated to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where the work of the Ruth Institute continues.

Today, the Ruth Institute equips its 100,000 Facebook followers and 70,000 YouTube subscribers to defend traditional Christian sexual ethics by providing scientifically sound evidence, carefully reasoned arguments, and compelling personal testimonies. We invite you to join us.

Complete list of Dr. Morse’s books:

1. Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village (2001)

2. Smart Sex: Finding Lifelong Love in a Hookup World (2005)

3. 101 Tips for a Happier Marriage (2013) coauthored with Betsy Kerekes.

4. The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims (2015)

5. 101 Tips for Marrying the Right Person (2016) coauthored with Betsy Kerekes.

6. The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church was Right Along. (2018) 

Tim Staples was a fallen-away Southern Baptist who as a teen came back to faith in Christ through the witness of televangelists. During his four-year tour with the U.S. Marine Corps, he became friends with a Marine well-versed in his Catholic Faith who challenged Tim to study Catholicism from Catholic and historical sources. That sparked a two-year search for the truth. Immediately after his tour of duty, Tim attended Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and became a youth minister in an Assembly of God community. He was determined to prove Catholicism wrong, but he studied his way to the last place he thought he would ever end up: the Catholic Church. 

He converted in 1988 and spent six years in formation for the priesthood, earning a degree in philosophy and studying theology at the graduate level. Realizing that his calling was not to be a priest, Tim left the seminary in 1994 and has been working in Catholic apologetics and evangelization ever since.

Dr. Bruchalski earned his medical degree from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in 1987 and completed his OB/GYN residency at Eastern Virginia Medical Center and the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1991 and was board certified in 1993. He began his career in obstetrics and gynecology, practicing the full range of reproductive medicine. He experienced a profound conversion of heart following a live birth during a late-term abortion procedure and resolved to practice life-affirming medicine that supported women, children, and their families. As he explains it, “I came to see that true health care for women is not about rights, but relationships—not about limits, but about love and mercy.”

In 1994, Dr. Bruchalski and his wife, Carolyn, founded Tepeyac OB/GYN in Northern Virginia, a practice that supports fertility counseling, natural family planning, support for abortion-minded and post-abortion patients, and perinatal hospice for families that have received an adverse prenatal diagnosis for their child. As part of the practice of pro-life medicine, Tepeyac OB/GYN provides care to women regardless of ability to pay. To support that part of Tepeyac OB/GYN’s mission, in 2000, Dr. Bruchalski established Divine Mercy Care, a non-profit foundation that raises funds to support charitable care at Tepeyac OB/GYN and seeks to educate and inspire current and future pro-life medical professionals.  In its almost 30 years of operation, Tepeyac OB/GYN has delivered more than 10,000 children, with nearly 30 percent of their mothers receiving financial aid from Divine Mercy Care.

Dr. Bruchalski left the exam room in 2022 to become President of Divine Mercy Care, dedicating his time and energy to fostering a renewal in medicine and educating the next generation of pro-life medical providers. Dr. Bruchalski’s memoir entitled Two Patients was published by Ignatius Press in 2022.   He has been recognized for his witness to life-affirming medicine, most recently receiving the Fishers of Men Award from the Guadalupe Radio Network, the Evangelium Vitae Award from the De Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame University, and the One of Us Award from the Jerome Lejeune Foundation.