Category: SPEAKERS

Melissa Miscevic Bramble

Melissa Miscevic Bramble is the Director of Operations at St. Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site in the United States. Prior to coming to the Shrine, she worked for thirteen years in publishing, primarily in architectural preservation and local history publications, including the journal of the Association for Preservation Technology International. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

Luis Martinez Ferrer

Born 12 October 1964 in Madrid (Spain).
Laureate in "Geography and History", Università Autonoma de Madrid (1987)
Dottore in Teologia, nella Facoltà di Teologia dell'Università di Navarra (1995).
Professore Ordinario di Storia della Chiesa moderna e contemporanea presso la

Facoltà di Teologia delle Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Roma), nomina 2018.
Libri pubblicati (selection)
Decretos del Concilio Tercero Provincial Mexicano (1585), historical-critical edition, and
Preliminary study, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora (Mich.), Pontifical University of the Holy See, Zamora (Mich.), Universidad Pontificia de la Santa
Cruz, Mexico 2009, pp. 681.
Inculturation: Church magisterium and ecclesiastical documents, Promise (Theology 5),
San José, Costa Rica 2011, 2nd ed., pp. 547, in collaborazione with Ricardo Acosta Nassar.
Third Limonian Council (1583-1591). Bilingual edition of the decrees (in collaboration with
José Luis Gutiérrez), Facultad de Teología Pontificia y Civil de Lima, Universidad Pontificia de la Universidad Pontificia de la
Santa Cruz, Ediciones San Pablo, Lima 2017, pp. 347.
Understanding the first evangelisation of America. Selected Texts, EDUSC Rome
2022 [E-Book] [E-Book].
Indigenous and Christian? The dialogue between evangelisation and indigenous cultures in Latin America
(sec. XV-XVIII), Tau Editrice, Todi (Pg) 2023, pp. 220.

Maeve Heaney

Assoc. Prof. Maeve Louise Heaney VDMF is a consecrated member of the Community.
Verbum Dei and holds the Xavier Chair of Theological Formation at the Catholic University of Rome.
from Australia. A theologian, musician and composer, she specialises and researches in the areas of
theological aesthetics, music, spirituality, ministry and leadership. He is currently
President of the Australian Catholic Theological Association (ACTA). Her most recent publication
Suspended God: Music and a Theology of Doubt (London: Bloomsbury,
2022), and in 2020 he released his fifth album of original music: Strange Life: The Music of
Doubtful Faith. The charisma of the Verbum Dei Community is that of dedication to the
prayer and the ministry of the Word (Acts 6:4), so opening up spaces for exploring the
how to pray is one of his passions.

Susan Timoney

Susan Timoney, STD, is Associate Professor of Practice and Associate Dean for Ministerial Degrees in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. She received her doctorate from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, specializing in Spirituality. His areas of research include evangelisation, pastoral leadership and Christian spirituality.

Maria Carla Frison

Having completed her novitiate as a Canossian missionary in 1974, Sister Maria Carla
Frison began his theological studies at the Faculty of Theology of Northern Italy.
Settentrionale of Milan. He continued his missionary training in England
where he returned in 2000 to specialise in spiritual accompaniment. He has
taught religion in Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA) and in 1980, after her final vows, she was sent to Hong Kong.
was sent to Hong Kong, where she completed her final vows.
academic training. In Italy since 1990, he actively assisted for 10 years to the
meetings with the Jesuit team for the formation of leaders of the Spiritual Exercises.
She gave retreats in various forms from the north to the south of Italy. She collaborated in the missionary formation of sisters and
lay people, visiting them also in Africa. The presence of foreign religious in Rome, from the year 2000 onwards, has also involved her in
in setting up the "USMI ti accoglie" (USMI welcomes you) service for them. At the Gregorian University, in 2007, he obtained a
D. in Spiritual Theology and since 2013 has been in charge of documentation and communication concerning St. Josephine.
Bakhita in Schio.