Welcome, New Contributors

We’re pleased to welcome a number of new contributors to Pray Tell. Some are brand new this fall; some joined us over the summer. Regardless, we’re very glad to have each of them enter the discussion with us.

Bill Burke served as Associate Director of the English Sector National Liturgy Office of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) before returning recently to parish ministry.  A native of Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia, he has served as a parish priest for almost 30 years since his ordination to the priesthood in July of 1977. During that time he has been also a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Diocese of Antigonish. He holds a master’s degree in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame.

Nicholas Denysenko received a Ph.D. in liturgical studies and sacramental theology from The Catholic University of America in 2008. He is assistant professor of theological studies and director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he teaches courses on liturgy and Eastern Christianity. He serves as deacon at St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Tarzana, California. He is currently working on a monograph treating liturgical reform in the Orthodox Church.

Katharine E. Harmon is a lecturer in Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN, where she teaches undergraduate courses in theology, liturgy, and liturgical music. She is an organist and church musician at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, IN. Katharine is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s Ph.D. program in Liturgical Studies, and the author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Liturgical Press, 2013).

Timothy Brunk is associate professor of theology at Villanova University. He teaches courses in sacramental theology and in pastoral care of the sick. His major research focus at present is the interplay of consumer culture and sacramental worship and he has four articles in print on that subject.

Bruce Morrill, S.J., holds the Edward A. Malloy Chair of Catholic Studies at Vanderbilt University, where he is professor of Theological Studies in the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion. He preaches and presides regularly at Nashville’s Cathedral of the Incarnation and provides pastoral and liturgical ministry at Riverbend Maximum Security Prison. His more recent books are Encountering Christ in the Eucharist (2012) and Divine Worship and Human Healing (2009).