Study groups met in the Spring to produce reports in advance of the June 2026 General Assembly to assist the Assembly in their discernment.
The study groups’ work covered the following areas.
You can download their final reports (PDF) by clicking on a link below:
(1) Mission & Charism
(2) Community Life
(3) Lay Leadership & Lay Collaboration
(4) Mission Fields & Priorities (report to be posted shortly)
(5) Vocations
(6) Governance
(7) Real Estate.
The goal of each Study Group was to produce a report for the Paulist community and General Assembly that includes a US Catholic landscape on the topic (outside of the Paulist Fathers), Paulist realities on the topic (e.g. SOAR analysis), and considerations for the General Assembly’s discernment.
Study Groups
Mission & Charism
Fr. Dave Dwyer
Presidential Board & Busted Halo
Fr. Dan Macalinao
Old St. Mary’s Church, Chicago
Jonathan Lewis
Paulist General Office
Fr. Frank DeSiano
Senior Ministry, New York
Dr. Dave de la Fuente
Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York
Jennifer Kozakowski
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community, Los Angeles
Elsie Miranda
Paulist Lay Advisory Board
Fr. Mike Cruickshank
Cathedral of St. Andrew, Grand Rapids, MI
Community Life
Fr. Ron Franco
Paulist Motherhouse, NY
Fr. Bob Cary
Senior Ministry, Los Angeles
Fr. Ivan Tou
Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco
Fr. Evan Cummings
Busted Halo
Fr. Matt Berrios
St. Patrick’s, Rome
Matt Reichert
Paulist Lay Advisory Board
Vocations
Fr. Dat Tran
Cathedral of St. Andrew & Catholic Information Center, Grand Rapids MI
Heather Kinney
Formation Team, DC
Fr. Rich Whitney
St. John XXIII University Parish, Knoxville, TN
Fr. Chris Lawton
Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York
Ernie Garrido
Vocations Office
Fr. Ed Nowak
Vocations Office
Fr. Jamie Baca
UCLA University Catholic Center
Sister Deborah Borneman, SS.C.M.
National Religious Vocation Conference
Mission Fields & Priorities
Fr. Ricky Manalo
Paulist Missionary & the Communion Project
Fr. Rich Whitney
St. John XXIII University Parish, Knoxville, TN
Fr. Gil Martinez
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community, Los Angeles
Fr. Ryan Casey
Cathedral of St. Andrew, Grand Rapids, MI
Deacon Patrick Murphy-Racey
St. John XXIII University Parish, Knoxville, TN
Jennifer Sawyer
Busted Halo
Rosie Chinea Shawver
Catholic Campus Ministry Association
Lay Leadership and Lay Collaboration
Fr. Chuck Kullmann
Senior Ministry
Susan Timoney
Paulist Lay Advisory Board
Mary Martin
Catholic Information Center, Grand Rapids, MI
Susan Rutkowski
Paulist Center, Boston
Rachael Smit
Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco
David Rooney
Paulist Associates
Lisa Wellik
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community, Los Angeles
Fr. Chris Malano
St. Austin Catholic Parish, Austin ,TX
Cathy Walz
Paulist Lay Advisory Board
Governance
Fr. John Ardis
Presidential Board
Fr. René Constanza
Presidential Board
Fr. John Hurley
Senior Ministry, San Jose
Fr. Jimmy Hsu
St. Austin Catholic Parish, Austin ,TX
Fr. Seán Foley
Senior Ministry, NY
Fr. Steve Petroff
Formation Team
Brother Ernest Miller, FSC
Paulist Lay Advisory Board
Real Estate
Fr. Chuck Kullmann
Senior Ministry
Fr. John Ardis
Presidential Board
John Tortollani
Paulist Treasurer
Fr. Ruben Patino
St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Church, Horseshoe Bay, TX
Trish Dolese
Regulatory Compliance Services
Anna Sklut
Plante Moran
