About the Authors
Rev. Mark Connolly was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1970 he started THE SUNDAY MASS on television in the New York Area. In 1993, Fr. Connolly was named the Director of Radio and Television in the Diocese of Bridgeport. He is well known in the field of Radio and Television. Presently, Father is the host of an ABC syndicated show called THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK which is aired every Sunday morning throughout the country.
Thomas L. Gallagher is a lawyer in private practice with a Wall Street Law firm. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Gallagher was an in-house attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at The Catholic University of America, a staff member at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Special Advisor to Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, Archbishop of Philadelphia.
Peter J. Lynch is a seminarian studying for the Diocese of Bridgeport. He is entering his third year of priestly formation at the Pontifical North American College and his third year of theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He will be ordained a transitional deacon in the summer of 1998 and a priest in the summer of 1999.