SBC Conferences

Mr. Tim Ehlen, organizer of Building Catholic Communities, has agreed to speak at our conference.

“Hungry to rediscover the rich history and tradition of community life based on Catholic principles,” Mr. Ehlen began Building Catholic Communities as “an informal confederation of scholars, architects, religious and lay leaders” to study and advance such ideals.

The group’s initial effort is an ongoing series of lectures exploring the theory and practice Catholic Social Teaching together with concrete models of structuring Catholic communities. He desires “not only to continue research on these two topics, but also to begin to plan and build actual Catholic communities.”

The effort caused no small controversy when leftist agitants at the Southern Poverty Law Center intervened with the Catholic University of America to stop the lectures, which CUA had been hosting. (See “Catholic University Pulls Lectures Because of SPLC.”)

Mr. Ehlen’s views on doctrine can be gleaned from an article he authored on the website of the Catholic Citizens of Illinois. In it, he argued that, “in the latter half of the past century, devout Catholics throughout the world have been slowly and carefully taught a new faith different from what had been practiced for centuries.”

Mr. Philip F. Lawler, the celebrated editor of Catholic World News and author of the recent blockbuster, The Faithful Departed (review), has been added to our roster of speakers. The schedule is not yet completed, but Mr. Lawler will speak late Saturday afternoon.

Brian Kelly, Saint Benedict Center’s editor, is now slated to address our conference. His addition brings the list of conference speakers to nine, one shy of the complete roster. (Keep checking!)

Samples of Brian’s work are found on Saint Benedict Center’s web site. Our recent Mancipia newsletter provides a specimen of his editing as well as his writing. Other pieces of Brian’s work are:

• The Magnificat, Hymn of the Incarnation
• Red is for Martyrdom: Unsung Heroes of the Sacred College
• Saint Leo the Great: No Fear, No Compromise, the Lion in the Chair

Our tenth speaker has been announced: Mr. C. Brad Grinstead, M.S. Brad will be addressing the conference on the theme of Catholic education as part of the mission to evangelize America. You can read about him here.

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Below is our completed speakers’ list. For details on each speaker, please see the links on the right of our main page. It promises to be a great lineup!

Dr. Robert Hickson — Retired Professor, Joint Special Operations University, U.S. Special Operations Command; Retired Professor, U.S. Air Force Academy; Former Green Beret.

Mr. Philip F. Lawler — Catholic journalist, editor of Catholic World News, author of The Faithful Departed: The Collapse of Boston’s Catholic Culture.

Mr. R. Cort Kirkwood — Award-winning journalist, author of Real Men, Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire, contributor to Chronicles, LewRockwell.com, and The Remnant.

Br. André Marie, M.I.C.M., M.A. — Prior, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Richmond, N.H.

Mr. Gary Potter — Historian, Journalist, Essayist, Author of After the Boston Heresy Case and In Reaction.

Lt. Cmdr. John Sharpe — Publisher, Distributist scholar, Founder and President of IHS Press.

Mr. Brian Kelly — Editor of Mancipia.

Mr. C. Joseph Doyle — Catholic Apologist, Executive Director of the Catholic Action League.

Mr. C. Brad Grinstead, M.S. — Biologist, Catholic Educator, M.I.C.M. Third Order Membership Director.

Mr. Tim Ehlen — Organizer of “Building Catholic Communities” (www.buildingcatholiccommunities.org).

For a copy of our recently-mailed flyer, with all the pertinent conference information on it, please click here. Feel free to copy and distribute.

Easy registration instructions. Two steps are required:

1. To register for the conference itself, call us at 877-773-1773 or 603-239-6485.
2. To register for the hotel, contact the Crowne Plaza on the Web or by telephone: 603-886-1200 or toll free 1-800-9-NASHUA. Be sure to give the hotel staff the code SBC to get a room at our group rate.*

*To do this online, select “Corporate, Group & IATA Identification” on the registration page and put the code SBC into the “Group Booking Code” form field.

(The hotel cost is $102 per day, single or double.)

Unable to come to the conference? You can join us via the Internet. It’s not quite like being there, but it sure beats missing the event altogether. Plans are now being finalized for our “webcast” of the talks. More information will be posted soon.

To receive timely notice concerning pricing and other webcasting details, please click here. Thank you.

Shortly after the conference, we will have audio tapes and CDs available at our new web store: Store.Catholicism.org.

Last year’s talks are already available, as are many other fine Catholic books and audios.