Fr. Paul Felix was born and raised in Houston. In 1977, he graduated from Robert E. Lee high school, and later attended the University of St. Thomas earning a B.A. with a concentration in philosophy. In 1983, he entered St. Mary’s Seminary and went on to earn a Master of Divinity from the UST School of Theology. Three of his summers were spent studying abroad in Mexico, and he served in Clinical Pastoral Education at three hospitals in Texas.

On May 19th, 1990, he was ordained a priest of the diocese of Galveston-Houston, and served as parochial vicar at various parishes in Houston for seven years. In 1997, Father became the pastor of Christ Our Light Church in Navasota, and during this time he also ministered to the inmates of two Texas state prisons. From 2009 to the present, Father has served on the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council.

Fluent in Spanish, most of Father’s assignments have included significant Hispanic ministry. Since 2003, Father has served as pastor of the Shrine of the True Cross in Dickinson, TX.
Msgr. James Golasinski is the pastor at Annunciation Catholic Church in Houston (which is the oldest existing church building in the city). Monsignor has a great interest in the liturgy, and his parish regularly offers Mass in Latin (both Ordinary Form and Extraordinary Form) as well as English.
Dr. Dominic A. Aquila is currently Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of St. Thomas. He has twenty-eight years of experience in public and private higher education. Among the institutions he has served are The Rochester Institute of Technology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Empire State College of the State University of New York, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ave Maria College and the University of Saint Francis (Fort Wayne, Indiana). A central focus of Dr. Aquila’s academic career has been curriculum design and implementation, including core curriculum reform at Franciscan University of Steubenville, the creation of Ave Maria College’s core curriculum, and core curriculum reform at the University of St. Francis. Dr. Aquila is also a Trustee and Chair of the Council of Scholars of the American Academy of Liberal Education, a member of the Board of Directors of Wyoming Catholic College, and an active participant and lecturer in the national Fides et Ratio seminars. In June 2007 he received the Spes Nostrae Award for service to Catholic Education from the National Association for Private and Independent Catholic Schools.

Dr. Aquila took his Bachelors Degree in Music from The Juilliard School, the MBA from New York University, and his Doctorate in History from the University of Rochester and the University of South Africa.

Before his career in higher education, Dr. Aquila performed as a timpanist and percussionist with the New York City Opera, the American Ballet Theatre, the American Symphony Orchestra, the New York and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras and a number of Broadway shows. He also studied composition with Elliott Carter, David Diamond, and Samuel Adler, and served as Associate General Manager of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and General Manager of Garth Fagan’s Dance Theatre.

Dr. Aquila and his wife, Diane, are parents of eleven children.
Dr. Andrew Hayes received his B.A. summa cum laude from Christendom College (the valedictorian of his class), with a major in Classics and Early Christian Studies and a minor in Philosophy.  He studied Catholic Theology at Ave Maria University, and went on to receive his M.A. and Ph.D., with distinction, from The Catholic University of America in Christian Near Eastern Languages (concentration in Syriac Patristics). He was also Melon-Helis Graduate Fellow of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity at The Catholic University of America. Areas of expertise include early Syriac patristics and the sources of moral and ascetical theology.

For three years, he taught at Christendom College, where he also gave public lectures on the relationship between Christianity and Islam. At the present time, he teaches theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, where he lives with his wife and children. As a product of homeschooling, Dr. Hayes is particularly interested in the success of homeschooled students in post-secondary education.
Prof. Joseph Pearce is a world-recognized biographer of modern Christian literary figures. He is the internationally acclaimed author of 14 books, which include bestsellers such as G.K. Chesterton: Wisdom and Innocence (Ignatius, 1997), Literary Converts (Ignatius, 2000), Tolkien: Man and Myth (Ignatius, 2001), Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile (Baker Books, 2001), and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc (Ignatius, 2002). Pearce’s books have been published and translated into over eight languages.

Mr. Pearce converted to the Catholic faith in 1989 as a result of “becoming friends” with several 20th-century literary figures he researched who had been Christians and, ultimately, converts to Catholicism—particularly G.K. Chesterton. As a younger man, Pearce was “extremely anti-Catholic” and even had opposed Pope John Paul II’s visits to England. His earlier viewpoint gradually shifted as he learned more about the writings and beliefs of the literary converts he would eventually profile.

As Writer in Residence and professor of literature at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida, since September 2001, Mr. Pearce also serves as Editor of the Saint Austin Review, a trans-Atlantic monthly cultural review. A native of Great Britain, he relocated to the United States in 2001 to serve at Ave Maria University. He is also contributing writer to a number of newspapers and magazines in the United Kingdom, U.S. and Canada.

An accomplished tutor, teacher and speaker, Mr. Pearce has participated and lectured at a wide variety of international and literary events at major colleges and universities in the U.S., Britain, Europe and Canada. He is also a regular guest on national and international television and radio programs, and has served as consultant for film documentaries on J.R.R. Tolkien and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Mrs. Virginia (Ginny) Seuffert, a native New Yorker and mother of twelve, has been homeschooling for over 20 years! 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.

In addition to appearing on EWTN, she has been a guest on numerous radio shows, lectured at Catholic family conferences all over the United States and Canada, and has authored several articles on such topics as home education, teaching children the virtues, and household management. The Illinois Press Association awarded her first place honors for a column she wrote defending traditional family values in a local newspaper. The Seton Home Study School Newsletter regularly features her columns, and recently Seton Press published her first two books of a series, Ginny’s Gems: Home Management Essentials and Ginny’s Gems: 10 Essentials for Teaching Your Preschooler at Home.