Theme: “Reasons for the Hope That Is in Us” (cf. 1 Peter 3:15)

Sister Marie Gabrielle, M.I.C.M.  — Blessed Are the Helpless: A Message of Hope for the Weak Ones of the World

Br. André Marie, MICM  — A Modern Commonitory: St. Vincent of Lerins' Certitude as a Remedy to Our Modern Confusion

Chris de Vos — Abandoning Scientistic Cliches

John Sharpe —Our Metaphysical Dream: The Politics of Christendom as Vision and Remedy for National and International Ills

Charles Coulombe — Romanticism: Seeing the World in a New Way

Sister Maria Philomena, MICM — Inheriting the Earth: The Combined Strength of Meekness and Hope

Mike Church — Hope from the Bayou: Crescent City Catholic History and America's (Possibly) Bright Future

Charles Coulombe — Gary Potter and His Milieu

Panel Discussion (all speakers / moderated)