IHM Conference

Fr. Joseph Mary Brown was born in Bardstown, KY, the third of seven children. He graduated from Christendom College in 1985 with a B.A. in Philosophy. In 1991, he joined the Congregation of St. John (an active-contemplative Community founded in France in 1975) in Laredo, TX, where he did his Novitiate. From there, he was sent to France to continue his formation, and in 1996, he was sent to their house in Peoria, IL.

            Ordained in 1997, Father currently serves as the Superior of the Community’s English-speaking Novitiate House in Princeville, IL.

Fr. Thomas J. Euteneuer is president of Human Life International, the world’s largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in seventy-five countries around the world.  In his over 9 years of service to this unique mission, Father has traveled over one million miles as a pro-life missionary, and visited more than fifty countries.     

            Father holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, and a Licentiate degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He speaks Spanish fluently.

            While in college, Fr. Euteneuer participated in the Marine Corps Officer Candidate Program and attended boot camp at Quantico, VA, graduating at the top of his Company.  After discerning that the Lord was calling him to the priesthood rather than the military, he entered the seminary.  After his ordination in 1988, Father served as a parish priest in five parishes of the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL—as the Bishop’s secretary, vocations director, and spiritual moderator to the Respect Life Office.

            Father Euteneuer’s pro-life activity began in the early years of his priesthood with prayer vigils, pilgrimages, pickets at abortion mills, sidewalk counseling and the establishment of a crisis pregnancy center across the street from an abortion mill in 1999.

            Since taking office at HLI, Father Euteneuer has spoken to thousands of people all over the world, spreading the Gospel of Life, as well as making many appearances on EWTN and other local, national and international media.  He has been featured in Human Events and National Catholic Register, and has been awarded the John Cardinal O’Connor Award for Life from Legatus.

Mrs. Colleen Billing is a homeschooling mother of five children, ranging in age from 4-15, and has been married to her husband Andrew for 17 years. Colleen graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with a bachelor of arts in public speaking and a minor in teaching English.

            Colleen runs a professional organizing business called Peaceful Interiors, and works part-time at a personal training studio near her home in Westmont, Illinois. She has a passion for helping women (and men!) embrace a simpler, clutter-free life, and believes that a peaceful, beautiful home and a strong, healthy body are part of God’s plan for each of us.

            She has been a retreat master and a guest speaker at various homeschooling “home management” meetings, and both she and her husband are permanently professed members of The Brothers and Sisters of Charity.

Mr. Michael Kalscheur is a Certified Financial Planner with over 15 years of experience in personal planning and institutional consulting. His firm, Joseph and Williams, is an independent financial planning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana.

          Mr. Kalscheur’s planning covers all aspects of a family’s finances, including goal setting, budgeting, retirement planning, estate and tax planning and risk management. However, as a homeschooling father of seven, he has also become an expert on college planning. Mr. Kalscheur has spoken at several state and local conferences on topics of saving and paying for college, as well as family finances for homeschoolers.

          Mr. Kalscheur and his wife, Amy, are active in their parish’s marriage preparation program; he is also involved in the local Knights of Columbus (children’s program director), Boy Scouts, Little Flowers, and help host the annual Indianapolis Catholic Homeschool Conference.

Mrs. Virginia Seuffert, a native New Yorker and mother of twelve, currently resides in Illinois with her husband.

          While in New York, Mrs. Seuffert lectured, debated, and wrote a number of articles for the Pro-Life movement. After moving to Illinois, she became a founding member of the Network of Illinois Catholic Home Educators, helped establish the “Round Table” (a Catholic home school leadership discussion group), and became a founder and officer of the Catholic Home School Network of America.

          Mrs. Seuffert has appeared on EWTN, and has spoken at numerous Catholic family conferences throughout the U.S. and Canada. She is the author of various articles on home education, particularly stressing the teaching of virtues and discipline. Mrs. Seuffert wrote the chapter on “Home Management” in Dr. Mary Kay Clark’s book, Catholic Home Schooling: A Parent’s Guide.