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August Professor Charles Rice Who’s in Charge Here – God or the State?
September Fr. Richard Simon God Has A Problem, He Thinks He’s God
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November Mr. Terry Scanlon The Campaign for Human Development
December Rev. Thomas Paprocki Reform of the Reform
2000
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February Mr. Patrick L. Moore Islam
March Rev. Donald McGuire Mother Theresa
April Mr. L. Brent Bozell Television Impact on Families
May Mr. Martin Doorhy In Defense of Pius XII
June Mr. David Currie Born Evangelical, Born Again Catholic
July Fr. Burns K. Seely, SJC 20th Century Journey from Canterbury to Rome August Professor Thomas Reeves The Impact of Bishop Sheen on the Church in the 20th Century
September Mr. Alan Carlson The Myth of Over Population
October Mr. Steven Kloen A Journalist Looks at the Church in Chicago
November Fr. L. Dudley Day The One True Church
December Dr. Thomas Fleming Pius IX: The Pope Liberals Love to Hate
2001
January Sandra Choate Faucher Developing TV Ads to Restore Life Values
February Rev. Mychalo Kuzma Reunion with the Orthodox Church
March Dr. Eugene Diamond The Catholic Position on Assisted Suicide
April Mrs. Phyllis Schlafly Annual Dinner –
Bringing Our Catholic Values to the Public Square
May Mr. Stephen Brady, RCF Confronting Error, Defending the Faith
June Fr. Frank Phillips Restoration of the Sacred
July Fr. Anthony Brankin Reflections on Liturgium Authenticam
August Professor Ralph McInerney John Paul II and Fides et Ratio
September Mr. Patrick Moore Islamic Terrorism
October Bishop Sean O’Malley Overcoming the Vocation Crisis
November Herberto Schoeffer A Beachhead in Hollywood: Uplifting the Culture
December Fr. Hillary Mahaney The Drawing Power of Sacramental Life
2002
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February Fr. Robert Goedert Why Eucharistic Adoration?
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April Fr. Joseph Noonan Recruiting for the Priesthood
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June Dr. Mary Martin Restoring Life & Love to Marriage
July Professor Joseph Pearce Solzhenitzen, A Sole in Exile
August Mr. Michael Rose Annual Dinner – Good Bye, Good Men
September Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. Scandal in the Church
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November Dr. Judith Reisman Kinsey, Sex & Fraud
December Fr. James Gould Recollections of the November Bishops Meeting
2003
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February Professor James Hitchcock The Old Boy Network in the American Church
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May Fr. Anthony bus Mary, Mother of the Church,
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July Mother Assumpta Long Harbinger of Hope: A New Religious Order
August Mr. Kenneth C. Jones The Vatican II Renewal: Reality or Myth?
September George Weigel Annual Dinner – The Catholic Church &
The World After 9/11
October Fr. Daniel L. Mode The Grunt Padre: An American Saint for Our Times
November Mr. Mark Follett Bringing Catholic Radio to Chicago
December Dr. Eugene F. Diamond Casualties of the Sexual Revolution
2004
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February Mr. John McLaughlin Reclaiming the Catholic Vote
March Mr. Serge Trifkovic The Sword of the Prophet
April Good Friday No Luncheon
May Msgr. Michael Schmitz Restoring Parish & Traditions at St. Gelasius
June Dr. Thomas Fleming The Morality of Everyday Life
July Mr. Joseph Pearce Shakespeare and The Churc
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September Rev. James Gould Catholic Politicians & The Body of Christ
October Dr. Jeffrey Satinover Annual Dinner – Thieves in the Night
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2005
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February Fr. Bob Sprott Abortion as a Political Issue – Lessons from
Abraham Lincoln
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September Mr. Patrick Reilly The Secrecy of the Mandatum
October Mr. Christopher Check Lepanto: The Battle & The Poem
November Mr. William Donohue Annual Dinner – Anti-Catholicism Today
December Mr. Dennis McNamara Heavenly City: Architectural Traditions of
Catholic Chicago
2006
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February Mr. Steve Kellmeyer Deception: Catholic Education in America
March Fr. Joseph Fessio Benedict XVI
April Good Friday No Luncheon
May Mr. David Carlin Can a Catholic Be A Democrat?
June Professor James Hitchcock Analyzing the Ban on Homosexuals in the
Seminary
July Fr. Thomas Loya The Mystery of Marriage
August Fr. McLean Cummings Education Initiative for Central & Eastern Europe
September Mrs. Betsy Hart It Takes a Parent
October Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz Annual Dinner – Some Reflections on the Crisis in
The Church
November Fr. Frank Hoffman The Real Opus Dei
December Mr. Thomas F. Roeser Catholicism and the New Catholic Media
2007
January Fr. Dennis Kolinski The Real Presence
February Dr. Alan Carlson Conjugal America
March Mr. Joseph Pearce Catholic Cultural Revival
April Dr. Alvin J. Schmidt The Great Divide – Islam vs. Christianity
May Fr. Thomas Milota The New Evangelization
June Professor William Carroll Thomas Carroll
July Fr. Anthony Brankin Americanism: Our Own Little Heresy
August Fr. Nicholas Federspiel The Existence of Satan
September Fr. Frank Pavone Annual Dinner Catholics in Political
Life
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November Mr. Stephen Safranek Annulments & No Fault Divorce
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2008
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Brought To Catholicism
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For A Troubled Age
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Mr. John Powers Perspectives
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Mr. Nicholas Hahn III Universities Catholic Again?
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To Catholic Educators
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July Mrs. Patricia Bainbridge My Journey from Agnosticism to Evangelicanism
To Catholicism
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October Mr. Terrence Scanlon Have Government Monies Helped or Hindered
Catholic Charities & Other Faith Based Groups?
November Mr. Raymond Arroyo Annual Dinner – Engaging the Culture
December Fr. L. Dudley Day Teaching the Faith in the Modern World
2009
January Redd Griffin The World Turned Upside Down
February Sister Anne Flanagan The Life & Legends of St. Paul
March Fr. Christopher Devron, S.J. When Catholic Education Invests in Urban America
April Good Friday No Luncheon
May Mr. John Iannone The Case for Authenticity of the Shroud of Turin
June Rev. David Simonetti Lived Discipleship of Christ in the Church
July Mr. Myron Kuropas, Ph.D How the Ukrainian Catholic Church Survived
Nazisim & Communism
August Sister M. Paul McCaughey A Vision for Catholic Education
September Fr. Brian Mullady The Fundamental Option
October Bishop Thomas Doran Annual Dinner – Some Observatios on the Church
In the 21st Century
November Mr. Philip F. Lawler The Faithful Departed & the Collapse of Boston’s
Catholic Culture
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2010
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February Fr. Bob Lombardo, F.F.R The Founding of the Mission & Serving the Poor
On Chicago’s West Side
March Mr. Tom Peterson Founding Catholics Come Home & Virtue Media
April Mr. William Dempsey The Waning Catholic Identity of Notre Dame
May Professor Gary Glenn An Old Professor’s Thoughts From Behind the the Lines: Teaching Family & Politics
June Mr. Joseph Morris, Esq. The Legacy of Saul Alinsky
July Fr. Paul Check Courage & Cross: The Problem of Same Sex Attraction
August Fr. Francisco Liporace I.V.E. A New Order for a New Evangelization
September Mr. Richard Poe George Soros and the Cult of Death
October Rev. Joseph Fessio, S.J. Annual Dinner – The Internet and the Future of
Publication and Education
November Norman Fulkerson An American Knight, The Life of Colonel John Ripley, USMC
December Michael Voris Exorcizing the “Spirit” of Vatican II
2011
January Rev. Jeffrey Grob The Consummate Deceiver: The Devil in the
Modern World
February Brian Burch Evangelizing the Catholic Vote
March Joan Carter McHugh The Gift of the Mass
April John Zimmer FOCUS: Launching college students into
lifelong Catholic Mission
May Fr. Thomas Aschenbrener The Transforming of Gift of Grace in Marriage
And Society
June Fr. Michael Sweeney, O.P. What is Catholic About a Catholic University
July Christopher Check Viva Cristo Rey! The Cristeros and the Mexican Revolution
August Fr. Bart Juncer, S.J.C. The Sacraments of Catholic Vocation
September Dr. Kenneth Howell Where is Catholic Education Today? The Wisdom
of Blessed John Henry Newman
October Fr. Robert Barron Annual Dinner – The Catholicism Project
November Fr. Thomas Loya Sacraments of the Culture of Death and Life
December Professor James Hitchcock The Church and the Liberal Society
2012
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February Joseph M. Scheidler The Long Road to Victory
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May Most Reverend Bishop Perry August Tolton – A Saint From Chicago
June Luncheon cancelled for Rally for Religious Freedom
July Rev. Robert McDermott The Cause for Canonization of Fr. John Hardon,
August Eric Voogd Faith on Fire: The Persecuted Church in the
21st Century
September Christopher Robling Analyzing the Catholic Vote
October Fr. Frank Hoffman Annual Dinner – Change the Culture or the
Culture Will Change You
November Anthony Caruso, M.D. The Dangers of Contraception & IVF and
Their Impact on our Culture
December Fr. Wilson Miscamble, CSC The Promise & Challenge of Catholic Higher
Education: Notre Dame as a Case Study
2013
January Mrs. Virginia Seuffert The Significance of Catholic Home Schooling
February Mr. Brian Burch Evangelizing the Catholic Vote
March Mr. Peter Breen Defending Marriage In Illinois
April Mr. Patrick Trueman The Effects of Pornography on Youth
May Mrs. Laura Hollis, J.D. Science & Morality: The Unspoken Connection
June Patrick Trueman The Effects of Pornography on Youth
July Brian Burch What Now? Catholics Under a Second Obama
Term
August Fr. Tom Bartolomeo Religious Education in the Parish and The
Need for Reform
September John Garvey Annual Dinner – Virtues in Higher Education
October Michael Lotus America 3.0 and the American Family
November Dr. Susan Treacy The Place of Gregorian Chant in the Liturgy
December David Magee The Faces of Jesus
2014
January Diana C. West, Ph.D The Pill and Pollution: Bad for Women and Men
February Samuel Gregg, Ph.D Catholicism, Freedom & The American
Experiment
March Dr. William Hurlbut Stem Cells, Cloning & the Conscience of a Nation
April Mrs. Elaine Donnelly How the President, Congress and the Military are
Harming Women
May Fr. Robert Sirico How Helping the Poor Can Hurt
June Christopher Robling The Venerable Fr. Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P.:
A Midwestern Pastor’s Story.
July Cristov Dosev Spain Twice Betrayed: The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath
August Roy Postel Chesterton Academy: Raising Up Complete
Thinkers
September Ryan T. Anderson Annual Dinner: Preparing for Marriage’s Return
To the Supreme Court
October Thomas Levergood The Catholic Presence At Universities Today
November Susan Tassone The Forgotten Souls
December Virginia Seuffert Common Core: Should We Be Concerned
2015
January Clarke Forsythe Abuse of Discretion: Roe v. Wade
February Juliana Taimoorazy Eradicaion: The New Christian Genocide in Iraq
March David Carollo The Message of Fatima
April Fr. Piotr Gnoinski St. John Paul II
May Sr. Rosemary Connelly, RSM The Mission of Misericordia Home
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July Mayor Mickey Straub 50 Capitols in 50 Days: Patriotic Pilgrimage
August Msgr. Michael M. Boland The Crisis of the Poor in Our Communities: How
Catholic Charities Responds to Evolving Needs
September Cardinal Raymond L. Burke Annual Dinner: Remaining In the Truth of Christ
In Marriage
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Social Teaching
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Lady of Good Help
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