priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, and superior and founder of the Washington Oratory

Barbara Nicolosi is award-winning writer, speaker, professor and producer, Dr. Barbara Nicolosi has spoken at hundreds of conferences, universities, and churches.  She is the featured host on the Mystagogy podcast. She has also given retreats for parish ministers. With 23 years of experience working in Hollywood as a writer and producer, Dr. Nicolosi speaks about the intersection of faith and culture, the role of art and beauty in the Church and world, and how to engage the secular mainstream with Gospel themes.  She is a Great Books professor and former member of a religious community, speaking regularly on the topics of literature and philosophy the importance of friendship, various aspects of prayer and spirituality, the history and social importance of story and art, and how the Church can more effectively find a voice in the marketplace of ideas.  

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Dr. Nicolosi is founder of the Write Spirit creative writing program of the Catholic Art Institute. A member of the Writers Guild of America-West she has written screenplays for several Hollywood production companies including Fatima (2020), directed by Marco Pontecorvo and starring Harvey Keitel and Sonia Braga.  

Barbara has a doctorate in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in the UK, a Masters in Film & Television from Northwestern University, and a B.A. from the Great Books program at Magdalen College.  She has taught at the university level for twenty years. She has been a script analyst, production company executive, and consultant on scores of entertainment projects including the features The Passion of the Christ and TV shows Joan of Arcadia (CBS) and Saving Grace (TNT).   

Barbara has delivered hundreds of addresses all over the world including at the Vatican and for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

Barbara has been a grants panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a reader for the Humanitas Prize which has been called the Pulitzer of screenwriting.  For more, visit https://mystagogy.net/

Heather King is a NY Times best selling author, speaker and workshop leader. Her titles include Parched (the dark years); Redeemed (crawling toward the light); Shirt of Flame (my year in Koreatown, L.A. reflecting upon the spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux); Poor Baby (healing from abortion), and Stripped: Culture, Cancer, and the Cloud of Unknowing (going against medical advice).

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She has a weekly arts and culture column in Angelus News, the newspaper of the archdiocese of L.A. [angelusnews.com], and a monthly column in Magnificat magazine.

She also speaks nationwide, lead retreats, provides editing services, and blogs at DESIRE LINES: Arts. Divine Intoxication. Faith. For more, visit heather-king.com.

Fr. Jason Catania, KHS, was among the first priests ordained for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. Previously an Episcopal clergyman, he served parishes in upstate New York before becoming the final Episcopalian rector (pastor) of Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore. In 2012 he led his parishioners into full communion with the Catholic Church, while also retaining possession of their historic building, an award-winning renovation of which Fr. Catania had overseen in 2008. He has since served Ordinariate communities in Kitchener, Ontario, Rochester, New York, and Omaha, Nebraska, where as pastor of St. Barnabas Church he oversaw the renovation of its historic building, A lifelong musician, Fr. Catania holds degrees in music history and musicology, as well as in theology and church administration. He currently serves as chaplain at Medstar Washington Hospital Center, as well as assistant pirest at St. Luke's Ordinariate Parish in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Fr. Catania has a particular interest in sacred music and the Western liturgical tradition generally. He was the officiant of the first fully-reconstructed Sarum Vespers offered in the United States in 2020, and is a regular celebrant of the Traditional Latin Mass.

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Please note Fr. James Bradley who was originally scheduled has been called away from the installation of Bishop-designate David Waller of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walshingham.

Monsignor Andrew Wadsworth, is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, and superior and founder of the Washington Oratory. After graduate study in Music, Italian, and Theology, he worked and taught extensively in the United Kingdom. From 2009 until 2023 he was Executive Director of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, during which time he oversaw the completion of a new English translation of the Roman Missal, and almost the entire suite of liturgical books of the Roman Rite. He is the founder and Director of the St Gregory Institute for the Study of Liturgical Latin, a collaborative project between ICEL and the Department of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of America. He currently teaches in the Theology Faculty of Georgetown University.

Please note Fr. James Bradley who was originally scheduled has been called away from the installation of Bishop-designate David Waller of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walshingham.