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Jean-Robert Armogathe, born in 1947, priest (Paris) is director of studies at the Practical School of Higher Studies, correspondent of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, founding member of the Catholic Academy of France, president of the journal Communio-F (and international coordinator) and Éditions J.-P. Migne. Author of numerous books and articles, mainly on the history of philosophy and the history of science in the 17th century, he edited the General History of Christianity (2 vols., Paris, PUF, 2009) and received the Prize Cardinal Grente of the Académie française for all of his work. Latest post: Do angels know how to count ? Paris, Ars dogmatica, 2021.

Marie of Assumption OP, born in 1974, Dominican of the Holy Spirit, doctor of philosophy from the University PSL (Paris Sciences Lettres, École Pratique des Hautes Études), is professor of philosophy at the novitiate of Dominicaines du Saint-Esprit, as well as in final year at the Institution Saint Thomas d’Aquin (Morbihan). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Revue Thomiste and has published L’homme personne corporelle. The specificity of the human person in St. Thomas Aquinas (Paris, Parole et Silence, 2014), and Nature and Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas. The man capable of God (Paris, Parole et Silence, 2020).

Born in Edolo (BS) in 1965, he was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Brescia in 1991. He holds a doctorate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and is a former professor of dogmatic theology at the Paul VI Theological Institute in Brescia and the ISSR of the Catholic University in Brescia. In 2016 he was elected Bishop of Mantua, and since 2021 he has been President of the Episcopal Commission for the Liturgy for the Italian Episcopal Conference. Major works: Scuola di preghiera, (in 4 volumes with S. Passeri) Paoline 2009; La Riconciliazione: sorella del Battesimo, Lipa, Rome 2010; La Settimana Santa con i cristiani di Oriente, Lipa, Rome 2013; La Sposa senza rughe, San Paolo 2018. In Rivista di Pastorale Liturgica: “Riconciazione individuale e comunitaria nel Rito della penitenza” (2012); “La teologia delle Premesse del Rito della penitenza” (2014).

Father Philippe Capelle-Dumont, philosopher and theologian, Professor of universities (Strasbourg, Sorbonne), honorary dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic Institute of Paris, author of around forty books.

Gaspar Hernández Peludo (Lanzahíta, Ávila, 1977) is a Spanish priest from the Diocese of Ávila, ordained in 2002. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in dogmatic theology and patristics, and has been teaching at the Pontifical University of Salamanca since 2018.
Since 2012, he has served as rector of the Diocesan Seminary of Ávila in Salamanca and has been involved in the formation of priests as well as vocation ministry. He also participated in the development of the new priestly formation plan of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (2021).
Author of a highly regarded dissertation on St. Cyril of Alexandria and numerous works on the priesthood, patristics, and pneumatology, he currently holds the Mosén Soi Chair dedicated to studies on the priestly ministry and formation.

Cardinal Frank Leo

His Eminence Cardinal Frank Leo was born in Montreal, Quebec (Canada), on June 30, 1971, to Italian immigrant parents, Francesco Leo and Rosa
Valente. He is the younger of two brothers; Anthony is the older one. Cardinal Leo attended Eugenio Pacelli Elementary School, John F. Kennedy High School, and Vanier Cegep. He entered the Major Seminary of Montreal in 1990 and was ordained a priest to serve the Archdiocese of Montreal on December 14, 1996. He held various parish positions in Montreal: assistant pastor at Notre-Dame-de-la-Consolata, parish administrator at Saint-Joseph-de-RDP, and pastor of Saint-Raymond-de-Penafort until 2006, when he accepted an invitation to enroll at the
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome, before entering the diplomatic service of the Holy See, where he served in apostolic nunciatures
around the world from 2006 to 2012. On January 9, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him chaplain to His Holiness, thereby conferring upon him the
title of Monsignor.

Upon his return to Canada, he joined the faculty at the Major Seminary of Montreal, where he taught theology and philosophy while providing spiritual direction, formation, and guidance to candidates for the priesthood. In 2015, he was appointed secretary general of
the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB), a term that ended in 2021. On February 1, 2022, he was appointed vicar general and moderator of the Curia of the Archdiocese of Montreal.

Cardinal Leo was appointed by the Holy Father as titular bishop of Tamada and auxiliary bishop of Montreal on July 16, 2022. He was ordained a bishop on September 12, 2022, at Marie-Reine-du-Monde Cathedral in Montreal. His episcopal motto, taken from the Gospel according to Saint John (Jn 2:5), is: “Quodcumque Dixerit Facite” (in English: “Do whatever he tells you”).

Appointed Metropolitan Archbishop of Toronto on February 11, 2023, by Pope Francis, he took possession of his archiepiscopal see on March 25, 2023. On September 29, 2023, he was conferred the pallium at St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica by the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, Archbishop Ivan
Jurković. On October 6, 2024, Cardinal Leo was appointed by Pope Francis to the College of Cardinals during the consistory held on December 7, 2024

In addition to his extensive graduate studies in canon law (Pontifical Lateran University) and in diplomacy and international law, Cardinal Leo holds a doctorate in systematic theology (University of Dayton/IMRI) with a specialization in Mariology, a bachelor’s degree in philosophy (Pontifical Lateran University), a degree in classical studies (University of Montreal), and a certificate of graduate studies in spiritual direction (Aquinas Institute of Theology), He has served as a judge on the Canadian Court of Appeal and has taught theology, spirituality, and philosophy in Montreal (Canada), Canberra (Australia), Dayton (United States of America), and Ottawa (Canada) among other places.

Cardinal Leo speaks English, French, Italian, and Spanish. He is president and a founding member of the Canadian Mariological Society and is also a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Dominic (Dominican Third Order).

His Eminence is chancellor of the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto; chancellor and chairman of the board of trustees of St. Augustine’s Seminary in Toronto; chairman of the board of trustees of Redemptoris Mater Missionary Seminary in Toronto; and
chancellor of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto.

In addition, Cardinal Leo is Apostolic Chancellor for Catholic Missions in Canada; an ex officio member of the Permanent Council of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) as well as a member of the National Episcopal Commission for Doctrine; a member of the Education Commission of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario (ACBO); a member of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) Canada; Grand Prior of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, Toronto Lieutenancy (Canada); Bailiff of the Grand Cross of Honor and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta—Canadian Association; and member of the Knights of Columbus. He received the Coronation Medal of King Charles III in August 2025.

In the service of the Holy See, Cardinal Leo was appointed a member of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts in January 2025, a member of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue in July 2025, and a member of the Dicastery for the Clergy in August 2025.

Sister Rosalba Manes

Rosalba Manes, born in 1977, has been consecrated in the Ordo Virginum of the Diocese of San Severo (FG) since 2001. In 2004, she earned a licentiate
in Sacred Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute and, in 2007, a doctorate in biblical theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, where she
currently teaches as an extraordinary professor. She has published several works, including: Between Grace and Glory. The Divine Epiphany
in the Letter to Titus (Studies and Research, Biblical Section, Cittadella Editrice, Assisi 2010); Letter to Titus. Letter to Philemon (New Version
of Ancient Texts 51, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo (MI) 2011); In the Bosom of Paul. The Theology of Affections in the Letter to Philemon
(Ancora, Milan 2016). She was part of the team of biblical scholars who translated and annotated *The New Testament* in 3 volumes (Ancora, Milan 2015;
2020; 2023). She has served as a consultant to the Dicastery for the Clergy since 2022.

Gabriel Richi Alberti (born in Madrid in 1966), priest of the diocese of Madrid in which he was ordained in 1992. He has deployed his ministry in Madrid, Rome, Venice and Milan. He teaches as a professor of ecclesiology at the Faculty of Theology of the Ecclesiastical University of San Dámaso in Madrid, of which he is currently the dean. Among his subjects of study, he particularly worked on ecclesiology, the Vatican Council II, the ordained ministry as well as the theology of Marie-Joseph Le Guillou. He is also the author of numerous meditations on communion (Madrid 2021) “Una debil criatura lleva a Dios. Vademécum de eclesiología ”(Madrid 2020),“ La Iglesia somos nosotros en Cristo ”(Madrid 2016).

After a doctorate in philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, he continued what he had started at the Institut Catholique de Paris: to study certain sources of theology of spiritual life, in particular in recent years around the Curé of Ars and of the mystical and missionary impulse towards Canada in the first part of the 17th century (“Mgr François de Laval, a lover of the Eucharist” in Sufficient faith, Mary and the Eucharist among the founders of New France, under the direction of Thérèse Nadeau-Lacour, Anne Sigier, 2008 Purity of heart in Marie de l’Incarnation and two other of her contemporaries, Monsieur de Bernières and Father Louis Lallemant ”in Marie de l ‘Incarnation, Singularity and Universality. He organizes and intervenes in the Colloquies of Ars which deal with certain aspects of the ministry and the life of the priest. “Celibacy of the priest: the state of the question”, in The celibacy sacerdotal, foundations , joys, challenges, Paris, Word and Silence, 2011. woman of heart and reason, under the He compares the sources and examines the constant elements in all missionary renewal. He has given papers in numerous conferences and congresses on Marie de l’Incarnation (Quebec, Tours) and regularly participates in the CUÉG (University Circle of Guyartian Studies). He is one of the regular organizers and speakers in Ars colloquiums which deal with different aspects of the life and ministry of priests. “Priest celibacy: the state of the matter”, in Priestly celibacy, foundations, joys, challenges, Paris, Parole et Silence, 2011, p. 9-26. The most recent acts published concern La paternité du prêtre, Artège, 2019.

Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White is the director of the Thomist Institute of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is the author of various books and articles, including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2011), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015 ) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016) and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press, 2017). He has a forthcoming book titled The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera [English edition], emeritus researcher of the McDonald Agape Foundation and member of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

When I work, when I commit myself, it is necessary that there be meaning in what that I do, that the values transmitted are common with what I believe to be true and that I too can transmit these values and their importance.

The Center for Research and Anthropology of Vocations (CRAV), by the fact that it aims to promote the necessity and complementarity of vocations, that it transmits the values of the Catholic religion, speaks of the importance of three states of life (consecrated life, priesthood, marriage), and reminds that we are all called, that the Lord has placed a desire to respond to a call in each of us, allows me to convey what seems to me to be truly important for the society today. Furthermore, having had the chance to receive solid human, philosophical and spiritual training during my schooling and being in philosophy studies, the CRAV, through its research, its members and its ideas allows me to deepen and strengthen this knowledge .

Volunteering is also an aspect that I consider important. Since my childhood I have learned to give my time freely, to serve, to help and to find a lot of joy in it. When we have had the chance to receive a lot, give, pass on in turn and return what we have received, all this seems important to me and as very often we receive more than we give!