Speakers:

• His Eminence Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo
• Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
• Professor Manfred Spieker

In the Press:

• “Vatican Cardinal: We are realizing the worst prophecies of aging and demographic implosion” by John-Henry Westen, LifeSite , 2006-01-31
• “When in Rome” by Jennifer Roback Morse, Townhall.com , 2006-01-30
• "The family and economics" by John Allen, National Catholic Reporter , 2006-01-27
• "God at the Pub" by Elizabeth Lev, Zenit News Agency , 2006-01-26
• "A Catholic Alternative to Europe's Social Model" by Jennifer Roback Morse, Acton News and Commentary , 2006-01-25
• "Economics and The Family - Rome Conference" by Jennifer Roback Morse, Vatican Radio , 2006-01-20

Conference Media:

• The Family in the New Economy: Insights from Centesimus Annus by Jennifer Roback Morse

His Eminence Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Archbishop emeritus of Medellín, was born on 8 November 1935 in Villahermosa, Colombia. After attending the local archdiocesan major seminary, he continued his studies in Rome and obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the Angelicum. After his priestly ordination, he returned to Bogotá and taught philosophy for four years at the local major seminary. In 1968, he was placed in charge of a special course on Pope Paul VI's encyclical Populorum Progressio that was given in all the principal centers in Colombia. He participated as an expert at the second general conference of Latin American Bishops held in Medellín. Elected general secretary of CELAM in 1972, he was nominated Coadjutor Archbishop of Medellín, becoming Archbishop in 1979. As General Secretary of CELAM, he worked intensely in preparing the third general conference of the Latin American Bishops held in Puebla in 1979, in which Pope John Paul II participated. Elected President of CELAM until 1984, he also served as President of the Colombian Bishops Conference. He was appointed President of the Pontifical Council for the Family on 8 November 1990.

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse

Dr. Morse is a Senior Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute and columnist for Forbes and National Catholic Register , received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980 and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago during 1979-80. Until recently, she was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. She spent five years on faculty at Yale University before going to George Mason University in 1985. At George Mason from 1985 to 1996, she was a research associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice, where she was director of the Public Choice Outreach Program. She was John M. Olin Visiting Scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. She pursues her primary vocation as wife and home-schooling mother, combined with an avocation of writing and lecturing. She is the author of Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work , and Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World .

Professor Manfred Spieker

Manfred Spieker is professor of Christian social sciences at the Institute of Catholic Theology at the University of Osnabrück, where he has taught since 1983. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Catholic social teaching and is widely regarded as one of Germany's leading thinkers and commentators on Catholic social thought. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Valparaiso in Chile (1988), the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Erfurt (1991), and Vilnius University (1998). He is also President of the Association Internationale pour l'Enseignement Social Chrétien and has served as an advisor to the Catholic Bishops Conference of Germany.