Recipient of the Papal Benemerenti Medal, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput calls Chris “one of the most engaging defenders of the Christian faith on the scene today.” Chris’s live seminars reach more than 85,000 people per year. His reality TV show, videos, and radio spots reach millions of people, and his educational initiatives are turning the tide in the Church. He authored the Chosen Confirmation program which has already formed more than 500,000 teens. 

A graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, Chris is also the founder and president of Real Life Catholic, a non-profit which operates as the headquarters for Chris’s various initiatives. 

Above all, Chris is proud to be the husband to his wife Natalie and father to their six children.

Holding Bachelor and Master’s degrees in Theology from the University of Notre Dame, Pat has worked in youth ministry at Catholic parishes in Indiana and Minnesota, and is currently blessed to serve the youth and families of his home parish in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Countless youth and adults have been inspired by Pat’s presentations at events like Notre Dame Vision, the National Catholic Youth Conference, and various parish and diocesan retreats, conferences and rallies around the country. Pat currently prays and plays with his bride, Kenna, and their seven wonderful children in West St. Paul, MN.

Immaculée’s father told her to run to a local pastor’s house for protection to protect his only daughter. The pastor quickly sheltered Immaculée and seven other women in a hidden 3 x 4-foot bathroom. For the next 91 days, Immaculée and the other women huddled silently in this small room while the genocide raged outside the home and throughout the country.

While in hiding, anger and resentment were destroying Immaculée’s mind, body and spirit. It was then that Immaculée turned to prayer. Prior to going to the pastor’s home, Immaculée’s father, a devout Catholic, gave her a set of rosary beads. She began to pray the rosary as a way of drowning out the anger inside her, and the evil outside the house. It was that turning point towards God and away from hate that saved Immaculée.

In addition to finding faith, peace, and hope during those three months of hiding, Immaculée also taught herself English. Immaculée was always a good student and already fluent in Kinyarwanda and French. Using only a Bible and a dictionary, she spent countless hours in that cramped bathroom learning her third language. 

After 91 days, Immaculée was finally liberated from her hiding place only to face a horrific reality. Immaculée emerged from that small bathroom weighing just 65 pounds, and finding her entire family brutally murdered, with the exception of one brother who was studying abroad. She also found nearly one million of her extended family, friends, neighbors and fellow Rwandans massacred.

After the genocide, Immaculée came face-to-face with the man who killed her mother and one of her brothers. After enduring months of physical, mental and spiritual suffering, Immaculée was still able to offer the unthinkable, telling the man, “I forgive you.”

Immaculée is regarded as one of world’s leading speakers on faith, hope and forgiveness. She has shared this universal message with world leaders, school children, multinational corporations, churches, and at events and conferences around the world, including a recent presentation to over 200,000 people in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

He currently serves as the Director of Intellectual Formation at St. Francis de Sales Seminary in Milwaukee. He is one of the National Eucharistic Preachers and has preached about the Eucharist in South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia. He has studied philosophy, theology, and bioethics. He has taught high school and lay formation, undergraduates from Christendom College, master students at Saint Paul Seminary, and seminarians at the Gregorian University in Rome and now as adjunct professor at Sacred Heart Seminary and School of Theology.