Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Executive Director of The Center

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Executive Director

Rev. Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland, S.T.D.
Vice President for Catholic Identity and Mission, Mount St. Mary's University

2012 Fellow

Christopher Kaczor, Ph.D.
Saint Maria Goretti Fellow in Student Life
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Ecclesiastical Advisor

His Eminence
Raymond Cardinal Burke,
D.D., J.C.D.
Prefect, Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
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Center Advisory Board

Rev. Joseph W. Koterski, S.J., S.T.L., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fordham University

Rev. Leonard Kennedy, C.S.B., Ph.D.
Former President, Assumption College of the University of Windsor, and St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Hon. Kenneth D. Whitehead, Ph.D.
Former Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education; author

Msgr. Stuart Swetland, Executive Director

Msgr. Stuart W. Swetland, S.T.D., was ordained a priest in 1991 for the Diocese of Peoria, IL. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the United States Naval Academy. Elected a Rhodes Scholar in 1981, he entered the Catholic Church while studying at Oxford. He has a B.A. and M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford; a M.Div. and M.A. from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary; and his S.T.L. and S.T.D. from the Pontifical Lateran University having studied at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, DC.

He currently serves as the Vice-President for Catholic Identity and Mission and holds the Archbishop Flynn Chair of Christian Ethics at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Maryland. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education and the Executive Secretary for the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Msgr. Swetland was named a Prelate of Honor in 2000 by Blessed John Paul II and is a Knight Commander for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a 4^th Degree Knight of Columbus.

Msgr. Swetland hosts the weekly television show Catholicism on Campus on EWTN and co-hosts the show Go Ask Your Father on Relevant Radio.