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Dan Connors was named editor-in-chief of Catholic Digest June 1, 2005. He served most recently as editor-in-chief of Today's Parish. Before that he served as managing editor of Pastoral Music magazine (the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, NPM), and managing editor of Emmanuel magazine. He has worked with parish leaders for 26 years and has been an active parish volunteer. His wife, Deborah, is pastoral associate at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish in New London, Connecticut.
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Traci Neal joined Catholic Digest as copy chief and bookshelf editor in July 2006. She received her journalism degree from Southern Connecticut State University and has worked as a newspaper and magazine writer, editor, and/or copy editor since 1988.
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Julie Rattey, managing editor, joined Catholic Digest in 2002. In addition to writing and editing articles for the magazine, she is the department editor for Be Well and Products. She received her B.A. in English from Harvard University, where she wrote for the Harvard Crimson.
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Kathryn Oates, assistant editor, joined Catholic Digest in 2008. Kate earned a B.A. in Journalism from Spring Hill College, a Jesuit institution in Mobile, Alabama. She also spent a summer abroad studying at King's College in London.
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Paul Bourque, production, traffic and Web manager, first served as a technical consultant to Catholic Digest in 2002, providing editorial and production workflow systems, and support. Paul joined CD as a staff member in 2005 as Production Manager. He has ten years of experience in printing, publishing, and pre-press.
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Jeff McCall has been the art director of Catholic Digest since 2002. He is currently also the Art Director of God's Word Today, Living With Christ and Twenty-Third Publications where since 1996 he has overseen the design direction of Today's Parish Minister and Religion Teacher's Journal magazines.
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Valerie Westrate is circulation manager of the Bayard Magazine Group. She previously worked as the New London facility controller and has served Bayard for 8 years.
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Bret D. Thomas, President and CEO of Bayard Inc., joined the company in January 2007. He recently came to Bayard after serving as President and CEO of Peter Li Inc., publisher of Catechist, Today's Catholic Teacher, the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies, and other religious instructional books and supplemental materials. Prior to that, Bret taught high school biology and life sciences for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. He earned graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Dayton.
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Father William J. Byron, S.J. is a research professor at Sellinger School of Business at Loyola College in Maryland. Byron writes a syndicated bi-weekly column titled "Looking Around" for Catholic News Service.
wbyron@sjprep.org
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June O'Connor, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
DearJune@bayard-us.com
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Sean Patrick is a retired law enforcement officer who began an award winning writing career with Catholic Digest in 1986. Now living with his wife, Patricia, in rural Ohio, he is the author of Memories of Growing Up Catholic (Twenty-Third Publications). |
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Susan Konig's columns have appeared in the New York Post, National Review Online, and many national publications. She is the author of Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (And other lies I tell my children).
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Marialisa Calta is a Vermont-based freelance writer and syndicated columnist. She is the co-author of four cookbooks and the sole author of one, Barbarians at the Plate, Taming and Feeding the Modern American Family (Perigee Books, 2005).
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