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Erika Ahern is a seasoned journalist and co-host of CatholicVote’s LOOPcast and The Deep podcasts. She appears regularly as a guest on podcasts and talk radio, including Newsmax, the Steve Gruber Show, Catholic Connection with Teresa Tomeo, Relevant Radio, and EWTN’s Pro-Life Weekly. Erika holds degrees in philosophy from The Catholic University of America and Emory University. She and her husband live outside of New Haven, Connecticut, with their seven children.

Marge Fenelon is a recipient of the Egan Journalism Fellowship, which recognizes exceptional

journalists with demonstrated excellence in reporting for Catholic media.  She’s written

for various Catholic media, including National Catholic Register, Our Sunday Visitor,

CatholicMom, and Catholic Digest. She frequently contributes to Relevant Radio’s

“Morning Air Show” and is a popular guest on many other Catholic radio and television

shows. Marge’s book, Our Lady, Undoer of Knots: A Living Novena was awarded an

Association of Catholic Publishers Award for Excellence in Publishing and her book, My

Queen, My Mother: A Marian Pilgrimage Across America was awarded a Catholic

Press Association Award. Her most recent book is Mother Most Powerful: Reflections

on the Litany of Loreto.

Sr. Mary Claire of the Holy Family is a member of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) and currently serves as the sisters' vocation servant. She graduated with a degree in elementary education and a Masters in Theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville. She has taught every grade from kindergarten to eighth (except for fourth), with a special love for middle school.  She enjoys reading- particularly about the modern saints- drawing, and painting in her spare time. A Tennessee girl who could live off Dr. Pepper and popcorn, she loves road trips, especially this one we are on to Heaven. She loved serving for nine years in Phoenix at Most Holy Trinity Catholic School, and now she resides in Detroit, MI.