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Fr. Frank E. Papa, S.O.L.T., J.C.D. spent more than 25 years working with youth before his ordination to the priesthood in 1989. He was Founder and Executive Director of Teens, Incorporated, a recreational character-building organization that expanded into Teen Homes for youth from broken homes. He earned his Doctorate in Canon Law from the Angelicum in Rome, graduated Magna Cum Laude, studied for an Advocacy Degree at the Sacred Roman Rota, and taught various courses at the Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT. He has been a guest on radio and television shows, and a speaker at state agencies and institutions, as well as at regional and national home schooling conferences. As a priest with extensive backgrounds in Canon Law, marriage preparation, and youth work, Fr. Papa is uniquely qualified to give parents important tips from a Catholic perspective. Recently, he authored the book, Love, Dating, and Marriage: A Marriage Preparation Guide. |
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Mrs. Arnold has been very active in homeschooling helping to start the Texas Home Education Partnership and a homeschooling bookstore. Since 2003, she has served as the chairwoman of the Association of Roman Catholic Homeschoolers (ARCH) and has organized an annual Catholic homeschooling conference in A founding sponsor for the first homeschooled chapter of the American Red Cross Youth Chapter, Mrs. Arnold was award the American Red Cross Youth Sponsor of the Year Award 2008-2009. She was a founding member of the |
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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 Colleen runs a professional organizing business called Peaceful Interiors, and works part-time at a personal training studio near her home in 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. |
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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. |
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Mr. 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. |
Fr. Danial Estes, S.O.L.T., is a member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. He has been ordained for ten years and served on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota, for four years as an associate pastor and principal for a small Catholic school. He also served for four and a half years in Benque Viejo, Belize, as pastor of Mount Carmel Parish which included three missions, four primary schools and a high school with over 2000 students in grades K-12. In 2008, he was assigned to Our Lady of Corpus Christi College (Texas) as vice-president. 
Mrs. Terry Arnold is a homeschool leader from 
Mrs. Virginia Seuffert, a native New Yorker and mother of twelve, currently resides in Illinois with her husband. 
