The Vita Podcast

Bishop Joseph Strickland attended Holy Trinity Seminary and the University of Dallas, and earned his Bachelor of Philosophy in May of 1981. He received his Master of Divinity Degree in May of 1985 and was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas on June 1, 1985. Upon the elevation of the Diocese of Tyler in February 1987, he became a member of its newly formed presbyterate. He received his Licentiate in Canon Law in May of 1994 and was named rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, Texas in June of that same year. He was ordained as the Fourth Bishop of Tyler on November 28, 2012.

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Tony Guajardo has been a staunch pro-life advocate since 2006. As a Leadership Institute Field Representative, he helped strengthen and build pro-life student groups at over 40 different campuses in Michigan and Florida. In 2018, he was invited to attend the University of Notre Dame's Vita Institute.

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Caitlin Solan is an art teacher and artist in Northern Virginia. Her Catholic faith and pro-life values influence her art. She paints colorful custom sonogram paintings that show the beauty of life before birth. Her sonogram paintings send a powerful message that all life is important and should be cherished.

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Caitie Crowley is a passionate Catholic, pro-life writer. She has written for Human Defense Initiative and is a Live Action Ambassador. She is pursuing her graduate degree in Information Design and Strategy with a Content Strategy concentration at Northwestern University. Her Bachelor of Science is in Business Marketing with a concentration in Social Media and a minor in Management and Leadership. She is also currently a Project Manager at Simantel and has also worked at Caterpillar Inc. doing a variety of roles including digital marketing, marketing communications, event planning, project planning and writing. Caitie doesn’t just want to win arguments; she wants to change hearts. You can get in touch with Caitie at LinkedIn or Twitter.

David Hall is the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church in Henderson, Nevada. More importantly, he's married to a wonderfully faithful woman named Gevie, and together, they have three angelic demon children: Joel, Isaac and Gemma.

David gets a bit obsessive about things which draw him into spells of insomnia where he learns to write HTML at 1 a.m., edit and create a podcast, or learns everything there is to know about aquariums. His obsessions are mostly pointless with the exception of his obsession with Jesus and his Church. David's obsession drives him to learn philosophy, theology, and to write and teach about all he's learned about Jesus. If only he could make that knowledge pass into his character, he would be a saint! But unfortunately, David is a selfish and broken sinner, and now super culpable for his sin because of his knowledge.

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Dr. Michael J. New is a visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Social Research at the Catholic University of America. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Dartmouth College, Dr. New received a master’s degree in statistics and a doctorate in political science from Stanford University in 2002.

Before coming to the Washington, D.C. area, Dr. New worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard-MIT Data Center and later taught at the University of Alabama, the University of Michigan - Dearborn, and Ave Maria University.

Dr. New researches and writes about the social science of pro-life issues. He gives presentations on both the positive impact of pro-life laws and the gains in public support for the pro-life position. He is a frequent blogger on National Review Online's "The Corner."

He has appeared on EWTN News Nightly, Christian Broadcast News, and CNN International. His writings have appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, National Review Online, State Politics and Policy Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, National Review, The Federalist and the New York Post. You can follow him on Twitter @Michael_J_New.

Read Dr. New's work:

• Mainstream Media Misses The Story Behind U.S. Abortion Decline
• Guttmacher Report Shows Pro-Life Progress Continues as U.S. Abortion Rates Decline

Koree Fellows is a wife, mom of two, YouTuber and pro-life activist of seven years.

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Mickey Kelly is a pro-life activist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an active member of the Knights of Columbus, having held various positions on all levels. He first got involved with the pro-life movement through a group called Generation Life as a member of the teen board during his senior year of high school, and little by little became an active member. He has prayed in front of three abortion facilities in the last ten years in Philadelphia, including one in Washington, DC, and Minneapolis. Today, he is a blogger for Voices for Life that shares pro-life news on the local, state, national and even global levels. When he is not praying for an end to abortion, he enjoys traveling, dancing (mostly ballroom), writing, reading, collecting novels, history, theology, good conversations with family, friends, strangers with non-alcohol and alcoholic beverages, and meeting new people wherever he goes and whatever he does.

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Bishop Athanasius Schneider was born in 1961 in Kyrgyzstan to a German family and baptized with the name Antonius. In 1973, the family emigrated to Germany. He joined the Order of Canons Regular of the Holy Cross in Austria in 1982 and received the religious name Athanasius; he was ordained a priest in Brazil in 1990. Having earned a doctorate in Patrology at the Augustinian Patristic Institute in Rome, he has taught since 1999 at the seminary in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. In 2006, he was ordained a bishop in the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome and appointed titular bishop of Celerina and auxiliary bishop of Karaganda. Since 2011, he has been auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Chairman of the Liturgical Commission and Secretary General of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Kazakhstan. Bishop Schneider is the author of two books on the Holy Eucharist: "Dominus Est - It Is the Lord!" and "Corpus Christi: Holy Communion and the Renewal of the Church." His most recent book is called "Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph Over the Darkness of the Age."

Follow Bishop Schneider on his website, www.gloriadei.io.